A funny story about the fake Beatles tour of South America

In 1964 an impresario named Rudy Duclós spotted four young guys from Florida named Tom, Vic, Bill and Dave playing in a band The Ardells in a Miami club and decided to organize them a tour in South America. The band, renamed "The Beetles" for this particular tour, was in for it. Duclós sold them to South American cubs as the real thing, he even got them a spot on Argentinian TV. Once they appeared on TV, however, the con was uncovered. The media ripped them to pieces, but the fans who bought the tickets their concerts didn't mind that much. Mostly everybody really liked their music and what they were doing. Finally - they made a lasting influence. They inspired competitors to make their own Beatle-posing bands, as well the formation of a genuinely nation-shifting band Los Shakers in Uruguay who helped to birth the country’s revolutionary rock nacional music scene. BBC tells the amazing story...