The Fifth Beatle? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s what everyone
seems to remember. But years before, Murray was hosting shows with Dean
Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., before there was even a Rat Pack; raising
money for refugees, during the Hungarian uprising in the mid-’50s, as
the head of the National Council of Disc Jockeys; and staging rock ’n’
roll shows with the most integrated audiences this side of a civil rights
rally. He also
turned an airplane hangar at Roosevelt Field – the same one used by
Lindbergh on his trans-Atlantic flight to Paris – into the world’s first
multi-media discotheque... a year before the Fillmore Auditorium opened













