Bealtlemania hit the USA on this date

Brookswood

Brookswood

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60 years ago today, the Beatles hit the USA and the pop music culture changed around the world. Today, the Beatles are still the top selling pop music group in history.

I remember seeing the on the Ed Sullivan Show. The screaming girls were fun at first, but got rather boring as they ruined song and song. Oh well…. I guess that’s show biz.
 

I was just 8 years old. The Beatles meant nothing to me then.. which is Ironic I suppose given that they're a British band...

.. and I was in foster care when I was 9 or so.. and the ''aunties'' took us on a Saturday to see ''Help''... clearly the aunties wanted to see it because none of kids were interested in it.. :D
 
I loved the Beatles. I was hooked totally. They were so fresh and odd ( being British ) and fun and really danceable music with great lyrics. Easy to sing their songs and pretend like I too was a Beatle. :) That is about the time I would get in fights with my Dad because he cut my hair and I wanted it to grow over my ears and start the "shaggy" look. He refused. After a few months he let me have it cover the very top of my ears. :)
 

hollydolly said:
I was just 8 years old. The Beatles meant nothing to me then.. which is Ironic I suppose given that they're a British band...

.. and I was in foster care when I was 9 or so.. and the ''aunties'' took us on a Saturday to see ''Help''... clearly the aunties wanted to see it because none of kids were interested in it.. :D
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I was only four when I was at the top of the monkey bars and someone had a portable radio playing "Rock Around the Clock." My mother said I came down immediately and started dancing! I was hooked on Rock & Roll at 4! By the time I was 8, like you were with the Beatles, I was already madly in love with that "older" guy Fabian. ❤️

I was always interested in entertainment; my mother always played music; my parents would dance together; my older sister bought movie magazines, which I loved. We went to the movies every week. I love Show Biz!
 
Paco Dennis said:
I loved the Beatles. I was hooked totally. They were so fresh and odd ( being British ) and fun and really danceable music with great lyrics. Easy to sing their songs and pretend like I too was a Beatle. :) That is about the time I would get in fights with my Dad because he cut my hair and I wanted it to grow over my ears and start the "shaggy" look. He refused. After a few months he let me have it cover the very top of my ears. :)
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I can’t help but notice that early publicity photos of the Beatles showed them wearing suits and ties. Nowadays, many musicians show up in jeans, t-shirts and boots looking like they just came in from 8 hours of ripping out bushes and digging deep holes to plant new ones. Perhaps the Beatles were overdressed. And perhaps the pendulum has swung too far to the other side.
 
Brookswood said:
I can’t help but notice that early publicity photos of the Beatles showed them wearing suits and ties. Nowadays, many musicians show up in jeans, t-shirts and boots looking like they just came in from 8 hours of ripping out bushes and digging deep holes to plant new ones. Perhaps the Beatles were overdressed. And perhaps the pendulum has swung too far to the other side.
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The Rolling Stones broke the mold of all band members, of any band, dressed the same. They (Beatles) were not overdressed for their time at all. They popularized that collarless suit that looked ok on them and only them. The Stones were so bold by this standard.
 
I like the Beatles, but I love music anyway so it figures, but the Beatles helped to lift America out of a major depression following the assassination of JFK. There was a heavy underlying sadness to everything at that time which the emergence of the Beatles served to displace. It was a welcome distraction for all the young people and we had great music for a couple of decades afterwards because of it. I can never think of the fab four without remembering this. I'm grateful. :):unsure:
 
Paco Dennis said:
I loved the Beatles. I was hooked totally. They were so fresh and odd ( being British ) and fun and really danceable music with great lyrics. Easy to sing their songs and pretend like I too was a Beatle. :) That is about the time I would get in fights with my Dad because he cut my hair and I wanted it to grow over my ears and start the "shaggy" look. He refused. After a few months he let me have it cover the very top of my ears. :)
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Odd ?...escyoooooose Moi ?..
 
When I was really young I used to play hookie so I could sneak into my brothers room and play Beatles on their turn table. It was so fun.
Between the Beatles , the monkeys, David Cassidy and the partridge family, life was grand.

The Beatles music was easy listening with catchy tunes. My brothers and I recorded ‘come together’ for my grandmother and sent it to her. She had no phone. We all waited patiently for her letter only to discover that she hated it. She wondered why we sent her such rubbish 😝. Lol. Maybe another song would have been better. 🤪
 
Alizerine said:
Their music was good, their personalities were charming and their timing was excellent.
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I didn't come to enjoy their music until I was well into my 40's even into my 50's... and I do like most of it now..

My daughter used to play a great version of Norwegian wood..in her band when she was a teen
 
Pepper said:
I first heard the Beatles shortly after the Kennedy assassination. My BIL had been stationed in Europe and developed a love for the music.
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Thank you, Pepper. I have had an argument with so called Beatle historians that the band released songs in late October and November, in the USA. They say it wasn't till Jan '64. I know the first song our radio stationed played, when it returned to regular programming after the assassination was "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
 
I first heard the Beatles on radio in Autumn '63. It was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and my life changed forever, in an instant. I don't know if it was a release or pre-release. My sister was driving, my mother in back, I in front passenger. We were on Prospect Park Drive. I remember exactly where. It was my first life changing event. Everything for me was different after that.
 
I was 14! And I loved the Beatles, and I still love their music. I really loved most all of the Rock and Roll bands from the 60's and most all of the Folk Singers of the time. Our music rocked and most of it still does, at least for us Boomers.....Rock On!
 

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