The Beatles - Rock Stars who were influnced by them.

Where were you the first time, The Beatles came on the Ed Sullivan Show? Were you at the Ed Sullivan Theater? The Beatles' huge United States television debut was on February 9, 1964. Check out all these famous Rock Stars who said, The Beatles played a HUGE role in them becoming who they are today.
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Ringo Starr on His Friendship With Paul McCartney — "I Would Tour With Him Tomorrow!" - Closer Weekly | Closer Weekly
"The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles" will air Sunday, Feb. 9 from 8:00-10:00 pm ET, the same time slot that the band originally performed in on the hit variety show. The Beatles' appearance on the show continues to be one of the most-watched television events ever, with 74 million fans tuning in to watch the legendary foursome perform 5 of their songs. RE: Closer Weekly Magazine
Chrissie Hynde - The Pretenders “I remember exactly where I was sitting. It was amazing. It was like the axis shifted. I remember the first time I saw the 45 in the record bin in the discount house where my parents shopped and held it in my hand. It was kind of like an alien invasion. [The day after, the boys] all combed their hair down and made bangs! Me too! I could never set my hair in rollers again. I combed it out straight and cut my bangs.
Gary Rossington - Lynyrd Skynyrd - “We saw the Beatles on ‘Ed Sullivan’ like everybody else in our generation, and freaked out and wanted to start a rock ’n’ roll band. But then we got serious, and we really had this dream to become something, to make a mark.”
Tom Petty - “I think the whole world was watching that night. It certainly felt that way. You just knew it, sitting in your living room, that everything around you was changing. It was like going from black-and-white to color. I remember earlier that day, in fact, a kid on a bike passed me and said, ‘Hey, the Beatles are on TV tonight.’ I didn’t know him, he didn’t know me, and I thought to myself, ‘This means something.’ [The Beatles] came out and just flattened me.
Gene Simmons of KISS talks Liverpool, The Beatles and why modern bands look like pizza delivery boys
KISS - Gene Simmons the blood-spitting, fire-breathing, tongue-wagging, bass playing frontman of KISS. “There is no way I’d be doing what I do now if it wasn’t for the Beatles. I was watching ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls. It blew me away that these four boys [from] the middle of nowhere could make that music. Then they spoke and I thought ‘What ?’ I thought that all British people spoke like the Queen.”
Gene Simmons of KISS talks Liverpool, The Beatles and why modern bands look like pizza delivery boys
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NANCY WILSON: The lightning bolt came out of the heavens & struck Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. They were really pushing hard against the morality of the times. But we didn’t want to marry them or anything—we wanted to be them. I feel incredibly lucky, I’ve never had a real job other than music. I tried to get a job at a gas station, but both times they said, “It’s only a man’s job”! Ann had a job for 2 days at KFC before they fired her. lol
NANCY WILSON: The lightning bolt came out of the heavens and struck Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. My family was living on the marine base in Camp Pendleton, California, and we’d all gathered around the little black-and-white TV at our grandmother’s in La Jolla. There’d been so much anticipation and hype about the Beatles that it was a huge event, like the lunar landing: that was the moment Ann and I heard the call to become rock musicians.
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. This was there first time in America and their first time on television too! It was February 9, 1964. The girls were screaming so loud you could barely hear the drums and the camera guys couldn't hear each other either.