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The Beatles were the first British band to have success in America. In 1964, The Ed Sullivan Show played host to their first American television performance and was watched by approximately 73 million viewers in the USA. The Beatles’ rapid success and growing fan base in America saw them hold the top 5 places in the Billboard Top 100, which is still a record to this day. In 1965 they played at the Shea Stadium, New York, to a world record crowd of 55,600 people. The success of British bands in America was known as the 'British Invasion'. Other bands followed suit including the Rolling Stones and The Who.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was one of the first ever concept albums and led the way to albums having longer songs and thematic links. Technological advances played a vital role as the complexity of the band’s music developed. Producer George Martin and sound engineer Geoff Emerick used signal processing (dynamic range, reverberation, signal limiting) on the recordings as well as running instruments through a Leslie speaker. New production techniques were also used and included pitch control, direct injection (DI), automatic double tracking (ADT) and ambiophonics. Within You Without You is rarely performed live as for the recording such a vast array of instruments as well as lots of overdubbing were used.

Coinciding with the 50^th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) staged an event celebrating the fusion. Two musicians from the original recording, Buddhadev Kansara and Natwar Soni, were among the performers at the RLPO event.