The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand | Opera Singer Reacts LIVE

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This single performance was life changing for millions of teenagers. I was one of them.

100% live. The TV people on the Sullivan show were not used to anything like the Beatles. Paul's microphone was twice as loud as John. The guitar amps were off to the side of the stage. A fabulous very melodic song that literally exploded all over America.

The screaming didn't get better, eventually they had to stop doing live concerts because they couldn't hear their own music, and didn't think anyone else could either.

If you know this little about the Beatles and this song and the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, your parents failed you epically

There never will be another group like The Beatles. They were a one off......

Their fans went crazy anytime they saw them...on stage, at the airports, going in and out of hotels and restaurants. It was Beatlemania.....Biggest band on the planet at the time.

I was 12 years old and watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan when this program was aired. People were going nuts during the Beatles performance. Unless one lived through the Beatles early era one simply can't understand the hysteria they generated at the time. The Beatles influenced culture, fashion, hair styles, music, the music video, and are perhaps responsible for selling a zillion guitars and drum sets. All of this accomplished before any of the band members were 30 yrs old. Nobody except maybe Elvis had more impact on music than the Beatles. The following week my uncle took me to a music shop to look at guitars. All my Dad could say watching the show was "Look at that hair"!!! The Beatles movies are a hoot too...."Help"....."A Hard Days Night" fun stuff, with great music.

The Beatles did a German version of this song because they used to do a lot of concerts in Germany. For Beatles fans it's worth listening to just as a curiosity.

Classic Band, song, and TV performance... it's a hit. And yes the Beatles got that wild response everywhere they went!

This was the song, along with She Loves You, that put the Beatles on their way.

The Beatles did a concert at Shea Stadium in NYC, and the cheering was so load, they had trouble hearing their own cues. Such was their popularity in the 60s. My sister was absolutely in love with Paul McCartney.

This was live and my family watched. My mother and dad watched with stern facial expressions while my 15 year old sister was grooving and loving these guys. I was 10 years old and had to make a decision. Go with my parents or sister? Needless to say I followed my sister into the rock and roll world and the rest is history!!!!

The Beatles were something new, arriving in the midst of deep doldrums in American ‘white’ rock and roll. They were not just talented, they were radical. But without being so far out as to be a turnoff. The long but still neat hair, the suits but with no lapels. And the music, the playing, the great sexy harmonies and the implied physicality of some of the lyrics all added up to teen female hysteria. You really had to be there to understand how much of an impact the Beatles had. But it was huge.

Paul is on the left, George is in the centre, John is on lead on the right. Ringo is on drums. Don't look at the hair, look at the faces, and the instruments. Paul is distinctive because he plays the bass "backwards" with his left hand. All were geniuses.

When I went to see them in "A Hard Days Night" the babes in the theater were screaming their heads off even though it was a movie.

I remember this performance as so many others. It just shows how many people watched the Ed Sullivan show and how he became so important for introducing talent to the US audience. Didn't matter if you were black or white, male or female if you were talented, he gave you a chance. And if he put you on the air.. you had a good chance of "making it" Thank you for the reaction.

We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something ...' And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses. --J. Lennon, 1980

All of those young girls are now in their 70's and 80's now. I am 75. I saw it all live.

Capitol Records could have released the Beatles' songs 6-10 months earlier, but one of the big shots felt that British bands never make it in America. When he saw what the sales for their first few albums were in England, he changed his mind.