What started in early sixties as an intense fan following of a British band Beatles , by mid-sixties become a global phenomenon that (London) Daily Mirror named Beatlemania.
No other performers before or after Beatles caused such an all-consuming following by media, inspired by a collective hysteria expressed by screaming, weeping and fainting of fans, mostly teen-age girls .
Beatlemania expanded through Europe first ,arriving to U.S. in Feb 1964 with Beatles' first U.S Tour .Consequently, it spread throughout the world, lasting until the end of the Beatles' 1966 U.S. Tour and their final live performance in San Francisco.
Considered at first to be only a passing teenage trend, Beatlemania in fact had many positive impacts within its historical moment and served as a precursor to future changes in society, music, and history.
Beatlemania brought attention to the adolescence and sparked scientific research of this topic. In the pre-sixties Britain, one was expected to move quickly from childhood to adulthood thus, difficulties of life and wars didn't allow previous generations to linger in this period of life. Philip Norman, the author of the book "John Lennon The Life", says that "The effect of rioting hormones on immature and impressionable minds had yet to be studied in any depth by scientists or sociologists". An article " Beatlemania-A Study in Adolescent Enthusiasam" by A.J.W.Taylor which appeared in 1966 issue of the British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (volume 5,issue2,pages81-88) was a result of a grant from the Research Commitie of Victoria University in Wellington which came as a direct consequence of preceeding Beatles' visit to New Zealand.
Beatlemania was a great unifier of youth...
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...es and soul to America. Blues musician Muddy Waters comented that "Until the Beatles exposed the origins ,the white kids didn't know anything... now they've learned it was in their backyard all the time".(107)
Millions of teenagers throughout the world learned English in attempt to understand Beatles' lyrics..
Beatlemania was undoubtly , result of the music that Beatles gave to the World. It was also a product of brilliant work by people who surrounded the band. However,it is quite clear that the World was ready and waiting to undergo many changes .As a result of its perfectly timed arrival on a hystorical scene , Beatlemania was eagerly embraced by young post -war generation thus becaming the igniting force and the vessel for future changes in society, much more than Beatles themselves or anyone else could have predicted. It’s legacy lives.
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Here comes the sun du-du-du-du! Here comes the sun, and i say… hey, what do you think happened on February 9th, 1964? Well if you don’t know, the worlds most popular band became strangely the most popular band in the world (Glassman). They are a band from Liverpool, England together during the 60s’, are known as one of the best pop groups of all time (The Beatles). Come on, you know who I'm talking about. It’s The Beatles (The Beatles)! My question is, why? Why are they still popular today in the eyes of many Americans? Yes, that’s right. Americans (The Beatles).
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The Liverpool rock group known as the Beatles began to form during the year of 1960. The band was made up of four members which included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Although the Beatles are known as a major influential part of music today, the early years of their career were a difficult. They suffered the struggles of discouragement, being rejected by labels, and changing band members throughout the beginning. However, things began to change during the Beatlemania period. The Tipping Point is described by Malcolm Gladwell as a time of “critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. This theory can be applied to the Beatles during their rise to fame period known as Beatlemania. There
...s, it was a time of great turbulence from start to finish. Protests, assassinations, war, pacifists; they all played a major role in the United States during this time. Something substantial had to happen to help relieve some of the on going woes. It was the British music. Not once, but twice, within a span of ten years were the British the influence that helped get us over those times. It may have been in a more positive way in the first wave, and maybe in a more negative way in the second, introducing an entire drug culture, but either way it made an impact. I have always viewed the 60’s as one of the most intriguing decades to live in, because of its culture shock that occurred during this time. It was the decade of peace, love and drugs; it would have been great to be there to experience these things. Nevertheless, in the research I have done, I have realized the importance of not only the British music on this decade, but all of the feelings behind the music, all of the meanings and emotions and social change which it encouraged. It was the decade with the highest highs and the lowest lows in the last half-century. It was the time when British music saved America from itself.
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...ll aspects of American culture, and their influence can still be felt today. For good or for ill, nothing has impacted the whole of society quite so much as the Beat generation, which has been described as the first true American subculture.