At the height of Beatlemania in 1964, the Beetles arrived to screaming fans at the Buenos Aires airport. But the moptops weren’t the British pop group — just four guys from Florida.
An Argentine impresario had booked the look-alike band when he saw them at a Miami club. Known as the Ardells, Tom, Vic, Bill and Dave bore such an uncanny resemblance to John, Paul, George and Ringo that they often went by the name of “The American Beetles” or just “The Beetles.” Rudy Duclos, the promoter from Argentina, felt he could get away with selling the band as the real thing to star-struck fans in South America. “We wore our hair the same, we dressed the same, we wore suits.
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