[2003. 10. 28. USA Today] You Can Meet The Beatles Again on DVD

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Astonished by the mayhem, Sullivan instantly booked the band on his weekly variety show. He expected to unveil a novelty act, not set the stage for a pop-culture revolution. <P>The Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring The Beatles, a two-disc DVD released today on Sofa Home Entertainment ($29.95), rescues the pivotal period in four digitally restored episodes, starting with the band's seismic debut on Feb. 9, 1964, before a record TV audience of 73 million. Executive producer Andrew Solt packaged the really big shews at full length, with introductions, auxiliary acts and commercials for Lux soap and Chef Boyardee pizzas (one Beatles tune segues into an Anacin ad depicting a man with a raging headache). <P>At the core are 20 live renditions of 15 songs. Nine occasionally surfaced during the past 40 years; 11 haven't been seen unedited since the original broadcast. The shows predate home video recorders and were never syndicated. ''Even the most hard-core fans were unaware of the extent of the treasure-trove buried in those vaults,'' says the DVD's associate producer, Martin Lewis, a Beatles historian. ''I was staggered to discover there's a full hour of Beatles bits,'' including banter with Sullivan and the reading of a telegram from Elvis Presley. <P>The shows are historically significant on many levels: <P>* As the jewels of a small cache of live tapes. Few British TV appearances survived because tapes routinely were recycled. The 1965 show was the band's last live TV studio performance anywhere in the world. <P>* As a snapshot of the British Invasion catalyst. The quartet's U.S. arrival heralded a phenomenon that sparked the rock import explosion. The Sullivan booking -- headlining status on three back-to-back shows (a coup even Elvis couldn't wangle) -- helped persuade Capitol Records to sign the moptops after rejecting them four times. The Beatles' exuberant noise swept the rest of the bill into mothballs. Mitzi Gaynor's It's Too Darn Hot? No longer cool. Cab Calloway's Old Man River? Geezer territory. <P>* As a time capsule. The variety of ads and acts provide a cultural snapshot of mid-'60s America. Future Monkee Davy Jones appears with the cast of Oliver. Boxers Sonny Liston and Joe Louis take bows. Soupy Sales gets silly. More important, the shows hint at a nation's euphoric emergence from the trauma of the Kennedy assassination. <P>''The Sullivan shows were black-and-white, with everyone cast in sober Eisenhower gray,'' Lewis says. ''The Beatles, so full of vim and vigor and optimism, come on like 3-D Technicolor.'' <P>To see more of USAToday.com, or to subscribe, go to http://www.usatoday.com <P>Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. 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