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Did JFK's assassination help The Beatles break the US?

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Summary
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79% Informative

Beatles '64 charts the impact of the band's first US tour and how it catapulted them to global superstardom.

Paul McCartney makes a suggestion as to why they achieved so much so quickly.

The Beatles landed at the recently-renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport on 7 February 1964 , it was 70 days after the the 46-year-old Democrat had been murdered.

More than 3,000 fans and a large press pack were at the airport when the band touched down in the US .

The Beatles made the first of three appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964 .

By the first week of February , it was at the top of the US charts, a position it would hold for seven weeks .

VR Score

78

Informative language

73

Neutral language

67

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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