Months before the The Ed Sullivan Show, the band
played a seven-song set for Swedish radio that settles any doubt about their
electrifying live presence.
One of the most pervasive misconceptions
about the Beatles is that they were awful as an in-concert act. The myth, as I
recall my eighth-grade music teacher putting it, says the Beatles weren’t even
playing up there on stage most of the time. They were only pretending to
because no one could hear them anyway. And then when they did play, they
weren’t much good, relying as they did on studio time and trickery to make
their records sound nice. . .
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