{"id":2444253,"date":"2019-05-16T01:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=836042"},"modified":"2019-05-16T01:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:59:46","slug":"watch-k-pop-band-bts-appear-as-the-beatles-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-k-pop-band-bts-appear-as-the-beatles-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch K-Pop Band BTS Appear as The Beatles on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/115079_0364.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>K-Pop band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bts\" data-tag=\"bts\">BTS<\/a> recreated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles\" data-tag=\"the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a> iconic 1964 U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-rare-beatles-footage-from-the-ed-sullivan-show-in-1964-56884\/\">television debut<\/a> on <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ed-sullivan-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ed-sullivan-show\" data-tag=\"ed-sullivan-show\">Ed Sullivan Show<\/a><\/em> in an appearance on <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/em>. Dressed and styled as The Beatles, the band performed in the Ed Sullivan Theater as it looked in February 1964, with Colbert himself getting in on the fun by pretending to be Sullivan. The group played their hit \u201cBoy With Luv\u201d in black and white, and also sat down with Colbert to discuss their recent success.<\/p>\n<p>The late night show even taped a cold open paying tribute to The Beatles\u2019 appearance, calling BTS \u201ca new batch of mop-top heartthrobs.\u201d Colbert, as Sullivan, has each band member introduced himself before re-introducing them by their nicknames, which all happen to be \u201cthe cute one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WED4_LAAWk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In their interview, the musicians talked about The Beatles and sang a rendition \u201cHey Jude,\u201d and also touched on what it\u2019s like to have so many screaming fans.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiyPWH6Gm3U?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoy With Luv\u201d comes off BTS\u2019 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/bts-map-of-the-soul-persona-review-822474\/\">Map of the Soul: Persona<\/a>,<\/em> which dropped in April. The release marked the band\u2019s third consecutive No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart in only 11 months, making BTS the only group to achieve that since The Beatles in 1995-1996. BTS are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/bts.ibighit.com\/eng\/tour\/love_yourself\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on tour<\/a> in North America before heading to Sao Paulo and London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-k-pop-band-bts-appear-as-the-beatles-on-colbert-836042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-Pop band BTS recreated The Beatles iconic 1964 U.S. television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Dressed and styled as The Beatles, the band performed in the Ed Sullivan Theater as it looked in February 1964, with Colbert himself getting in on the fun by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 05:47:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}