Bob Kealing

My new book ”Good Day Sunshine State, How the Beatles Rocked Florida” is the first in a series co-published by the Florida Humanities and University Press of Florida.

It’s the product of four years and more than thirty new, primary-source interviews, access to letters and rare artifacts from the Beatles themselves, and transcripts from little-known court testimony connecting the Fab Four to iconic newsmakers, artists and historic events. The time the Beatles spent in Florida, almost two weeks, is more than anywhere else in North America that watershed year.

A Whose Who of Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famers who grew up in an uncommonly musical section of Florida, talk about the Fab Four’s profound influence. Not long after their breakout Sullivan Show appearances, garage bands exploded up and down the peninsula.

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