stackyFACTSYou know you've made it when even the criminals take the night off to watch you.
You know you've made it when even the criminals take the night off to watch you. When The Beatles made their legendary debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, a staggering 73 million Americans tuned in. The gravitational pull of this broadcast was so massive that major US cities reported a miraculous, sudden drop in juvenile crime rates during the exact hour they were on screen. For sixty minutes, the nation's delinquents traded grand larceny for screaming at John Lennon.
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