Remembering a Most Famous Date in Music by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia -- Sunday, February 9, 1964. Now more than fifty years have passed, but most everyone who was then alive and beyond the age of reason remembers it well. Up until then, when people spoke of "The British Invasion," they'd meant that fourteen-mile ride that Paul Revere made on horseback from his home in Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. "The British are coming!" he yelled, warning all who we…

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