[EllaMinnow]

It was right before my 6th birthday, but I do remember it. My sisters were 12 and 13, and they went berserk for The Beatles that January. We huddled on the floor to watch Ed Sullivan that night, while my father was shocked to see that these four "mop tops" were going to be the Frank Sinatra of his daughters' generation.

And I remember how much my British mother loved them.

[zzen01]

You "Baby Boomers" are small minded, shallow punks! Your generation is what is screwing up this country. O by the way I was born in 1961 to WW2 era parents too. The Beatles and their ilk are maggots.

[weegee]

Beatlemania may have resembled the bobby soxers swooning at Frank Sinatra shows but the Frank Sinatra of the early 1960s had little in common with the 1964 Beatles.

Frank had fallen from greatness and recovered his career. He shuttled money for the mob and hob nobbed with the (deceased) President.

The Beatles wrote some of their own songs (certainly the hits, even though they padded albums with covers/standards).

It's like people saying that "hip hop is the new rock". Why isn't "hip hop" the new "disco", "blues", or "jazz"? Or why isn't it it's own thing? Rock and roll is still rock and roll even if few stations that consider themselves to be "rock stations" play it anymore.