Posted on 06/29/2016 7:24:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
A taste of Beatlemania in the 1960s
In 1963, CBS News characterized Beatlemania as an "epidemic" that had "seized" Britain's teenage population. Soon, it would "infect" America.
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Funny that they stole the American style of music to make themselves famous.
The Beatles legs weren’t as hairy as Hillary’s.
Get the heck out! I remember the moment, I can FEEL the moment, of listening to I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND on AM radio. Of course there were several such moments, but they live as one within me.
To us, that is my generational cohort, this was an as yet unknown and unfelt illumination from some remote region of the cosmos, presumably Britain, as we were soon to learn.
Where were you in '62 ? ( I Wanna Hold your Hand was released in 1964. )
The Beatles created a new style of music and dominated the music scene throughout the 60s. No one sounded like the Beatles but many tried to copy them. Of course all musicians and composers have influences.
They were songwriting geniusese, however
Paul and John together.
Where does one even begin with a favorite Beatles song?
Dont laugh. Mine is the copy of Mr. Postman :)
“Funny that they stole the American style of music to make themselves famous.”
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We should demand reparations.
Seriously, I remember seeing “A Hard Day’s Night” in the theaters when it first came out. I was 8 or 9. Crumbling old theater in a decaying part of Syracuse. The Franklin Theater. Girls were screaming their heads off and fainting. To this day, I’ve never seen anything like it.
Still the best rock movie ever made. Close are “Woodstock” for its importance, and “Last Waltz” for how well it was done and performed, and “Hail, Hail Rock and Roll”, a great tribute to Chuck Berry. For me, anyway. I know everyone has their favorites.
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To me they provided a huge shout out to the baby boomers which is why all the baby boomers went nuts. The reason I posted this is Hillary is doing the same thing with the millennials..She is getting all those early 20 year olds who have 20 million followers on Youtube to vouch for her and they are actually doing it. Trump better get his act together or she is going destroy him. He’s got a hell of an uphill battle. She’s got the media and the young indoctrinated fanatical morons supporting her.
Yep, Chuck Berry and especially Carl Perkins.
I was in first grade in 1962. Do Be A Do Bee was the big hit then. By 1964 I’d heard my first Beatle record and asked a fellow 8 year old if they’d heard of them, and they said “Of course, everyone knows the Beatles!” Well, excuse me! LOL!
Their music is also very English. The Rolling Stones were really more American.
Hillary might give King Kong a run for his money in the hairy legs department!
Yeah, I knew that. No group wrote it, right? Was it Phil Spector or did he just produce?
I love Lennon’s voice on it and it reminds me of summer at the shore when i was 18.
Must have played it a thousand times in the car on the way down on a cassette with five songs on it :)
I can't see the parallel. Hillary is a "grand dame", known to us for more than two decades now, as though the Beatles had been in the public eye since WWII. So I don't get it.
Not really true in the early years. They basically recycled a Chuck Berry/Buddy Holly sound.
I remember my cousin telling me about them. I had never heard them. She said, “You will love them. It’s just like the old rock and roll.” When I heard them, I thought, No way. This is different.
I always preferred music that WAS like the old rock and roll.
Perhaps everyone knows this, but they couldn’t hear themselves sing or play at Shea Stadium because of the noise of the crowd. It was new to them to have that many people and that much noise.
Didn’t see them perform in person until Bangla Desh.
That is a good FREEPER question. What is your favorite Rock and Roll movie?
For me I’d have to say it would be “The Kids Are Alright”.
Not sure I fully agree. Even when they played other people’s music it sounded like the Beatles and they had their own sound. Certainly by the time Meet the Beatles hit the US in 1964 they had created a new style of music that was new and fresh.
That was my first exposure to them starting with watching them live on the Ed Sullivan show. They owned the music industry back then and triggered creation of a lot of bands trying to sound like them. There hasn’t been anything like it since. I do regret not finding a way to see them live but then I was pretty young.
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