George Harrison Was “More Present,” According to Cousin Brucie, than the other Beatles.
However, one person in the media didn’t stereotype The Beatles; radio personality Cousin Brucie, a.k.a. Bruce Morrow.
Cousin Brucie helped The Beatles become famous in the U.S. He told Forbes that he received the first Beatles record from an armed security guard, who had it handcuffed to his wrist in an attaché case.
The song was “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” “He says to me you can’t have it until 9 o’clock. So at 9 o’clock when I played it would automatically go on our syndication to 40 states,” Cousin Brucie said.
“So I played, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand.’ Never played before. And I heard it. I played it eight times. I knew what was happening. Now it seems what happened is dozens of radio stations because of my reach copied that record. Now it wasn’t great quality. But the next day they all did what I did. And it went everywhere.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
