Liverpool gave birth to The Beatles, but the band belongs to America as much as the rest of the world. Homer Simson said it best when apprehended in London and dragged to the Tower, “Our Beatles are way better than your precious Rolling Stones!” The fact was, there was little stretch of the Fab Four’s pop wildfire that wasn’t gripped by their Merseybeat whirlwind during those dizzy years across 1963–’65; the US of A is no exception. The States f…