McCartney Times

The new exhibit at Foxwoods Resort Casino of Beatles memorabilia, “The Magical History Tour,” begins chronologically before the Beatles existed, when John Lennon was playing in his first band, The Quarrymen, and ends when the Beatles were just a memory and the Fab Four had moved on to other musical projects.For the collectors whose artifacts are on exhibit in the show, their own “magical history tours” began on Feb. 9, 1964, the day The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show.”It was all people could talk about in school the next day,” says Jim Cushman of Mattapoisett, Mass. “Even kids who didn’t care about rock and roll were picking up guitars after that.””That was the day the whole world changed,” says Dennis Toll of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and the day he began collecting Beatles things.

Source: Beatles Collectors Lend Artifacts For ‘Magical History Tour’ At Foxwoods – Hartford Courant