Fact #102700
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Short story:
The Rolling Stones arrive at Kennedy Airport, Queens, New York City, USA, for their first tour of the USA, as The Associated Press describes them as "dirtier and streakier and more dishevelled than The Beatles".
Full article:
Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : We thought, This is the payoff. We got to fly to America. Just to get there! To cats like Charlie and me, America was fairyland. Nobody in our lives had a way of gettin' there, even once, just for a visit! Forget it, no way. To be paid to go there and play to Americans, we were shitting ourselves!
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