Yes, and it was true at the time. There had never been anything like Beatlemania. People went absolutely crazy over them. This is why they quit touring early in their career. They couldn't hear themselves play over the screaming.
I guess that’s why they’re legends and I’m not. If that was the cacaphony of praise I was receiving, I’d continue to play and sing, but not worry too much in the moment if it was coming out as well as I’d hoped.
They were serious about their music, too, and by the time they finally went into the studio, they were in their mid-twenties, tired of teeny boppers and the screaming. I have read that they had fun in 1964 with all of the hysteria, but after that it became tedious and a terrible weight.