“Sittin’ here watching matchbox hole in my clothes,” Ringo sang as the lead vocalist on “Matchbox,” one of the Beatles’ early Top 20 hits on Billboard. The British Invasion In 1964, the Beatles took American pop music by storm with mop haircuts, some catchy original bubblegum songs and a scattering of ‘50’s rock retreads like More

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