The typically copy-heavy front page of the Feb. 15 issue broke tradition and showed The Beatles behind Billboard's logo, above three stories devoted to the band. "U.S. Rocks & Reels From Beatles ...

To say that the Beatles changed pop music would be an understatement. From the time they came together at the end of the Fifties until their breakup in 1970, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George ...