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The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages produced a 50th Anniversary of The Beatles First Appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 2014, exactly 50 years to the date, hour and time.
In addition to ...View MoreThe Beatlemaniacs of The Villages produced a 50th Anniversary of The Beatles First Appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 2014, exactly 50 years to the date, hour and time.
In addition to a specially cooked "Liverpudlian Dinner" enjoyed by over 250 avid fans, they also enjoyed the complete Sullivan Show replayed from 8:00;00 pm until 8:59:55 pm, live Beatles music played in tribute arrangement by the Club's Tribute Band, and as our special guest speaker, Grammy Award Winner Chris Huston.
As a friend and school-mate (Liverpool School of Art) with John Lennon, Chris honored the memory of his friend, the other Beatles and the history of the British Invasion -- before and after it hit US shores -- with an hour-long presentation. This video is the first part of Chris's presentation.
For more background on the contributions and achievements Chris has made to modern music, rely on everyone's best friend, Google, to dig. Here is a short summary of Chris' background from Wikipedia... but Chris' personal stories about his personal relationship and experiences with John Lennon, The Beatles, and so many other "rock groups" of the '60s and '70s gave everyone at the Anniversary Celebration a unique insight to many of the key elements of the history of modern music.
We all deeply appreciated Chris Huston's contributions to a much better understanding of the never to be forgotten era of the lives we all lived if we were fortunate enough to have lived the 1960's with The Beatles.
Visit www.BeatlemaniacsRock.com to learn about the club.
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From Wikipedia:
Christopher John 'Chris' Huston (born 25 June 1943) is a British born record engineer and guitarist.
Huston arrived in Wallasey, near Liverpool, toward the end of World War II from an orphanage in North Wales. As a teenager he began studies at the Liverpool College of Art where he became friends with John Lennon and, like Lennon, began copying the American R&B music imported through the city.
In 1961 he joined The Undertakers, one of the leading local Merseybeat bands, as lead guitarist, shortly before Jackie Lomax joined as the group's singer.
The Undertakers released a string of singles in the early 1960s and toured widely, but had little chart success. They split up in the United States in 1965, and Huston stayed behind.
Initially he toured as a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters, before linking up with The Young Rascals to start a new career as a record producer and engineer.
As engineer, he won a gold disc for the Rascals' "Groovin'", and in the late 1960s engineered a string of successful albums with The Who, Led Zeppelin, Todd Rundgren, Patti LaBelle and H.P. Lovecraft. He worked particularly extensively with Eric Burdon and War on their albums through the 1970s and 1980s, winning a Grammy Award for The World is A Ghetto (1973). He also worked with James Brown, Ben E. King and many others.
Huston has subsequently become a consultant and lecturer on acoustics, building design, recording techniques and record production, based near Nashville, Tennessee.
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With that as Chris' background, it's easy to appreciate how fortunate we all were to celebrate The Beatles 50th Sullivan Show appearance with him.
