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When The Beatles burst onto the music scene in the early 1960s, they changed the course of popular music forever. Beatlemania swept across the world, turning John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr into global icons who were admired with an intensity rarely seen in music history. For …

By 1967, The Beatles were at the height of their cultural power, uniting the world with their broadcast performance of “All You Need Is Love” to an estimated 200 million viewers. Among the millions watching was a teenage Peter Gabriel, who had just turned 17. For Gabriel, the event was …