Bruce details the fascinating story behind Ed Sullivan’s decision to book the Beatles for his prime time variety show at a time when the group was virtually unknown in America and what caused Beatlesmania to explode in America leading to a TV audience of 73 million.

Bruce wrote the essay contained in the set’s booklet, and also served as a consultant on the project. The CD box set contains stereo and mono versions of the four Beatles albums released by Capitol in 1965.

The year 1999 was the 35th anniversary of the Beatles first motion picture, A Hard Day’s Night.

He loves them, yeah, yeah, yeah New compilation CD is another milestone for Beatlemaniac Bruce Spizer by Angus Lind Times-Picayune, Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Orleanian Bruce Spizer, arguably the country’s leading expert on The Beatles Capitol Records releases, was talking about preparedness. “There’s always speculation about what we call ‘desert-island discs,’ what you would bring…

Bruce wrote 2,592 questions for this edition.