'The Ed Sullivan Show': George Harrison Had a 104-Degree Fever During The Beatles' Historic ...

The Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Show performance became the moment future musical legends would refer to later as the watershed event that fixed their destinies. The band wasn’t just singing and playing musical instruments on Sullivan’s stage; they had permanently changed American culture.

Incredibly, it almost didn’t happen. At least not without lead guitarist George Harrison. The “quiet Beatle” had a raging fever the week of their television performance and nearly had to be hospitalized.
While the band’s seminal moment would come on The Ed Sullivan Show, they had already received airtime in the U.S. just months before on a program called CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace.

Source: cheatsheet.com

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