For the fools, everything starts and ends with this illiterate musically pop group.
Posted on 02/09/2014 7:47:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Musical moments that capture the attention of a national audience - and beyond - never seem to be in short supply.
Last week, Bruno Mars set a ratings record with 115 million people watching his Super Bowl performance. A few months ago, the talk was about Beyonce’s surprise album. And there’s still discussion of That Miley Moment at the MTV Video Music Awards.
But moments that spark a musical revolution? A dramatic altering of the pop culture landscape? A true moment for historians to analyze? Rare indeed, which is what makes the 50th anniversary of what is considered the start of Beatlemania so remarkable - and so unlikely to happen again.
“The media has gotten so fragmented now ... there’s 50 things in a marketing plan for an artist today,” said Revolt TV President (and former MTV executive) Andy Schuon. “The ability to fan that fire and to give it the kind of intensity that ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ could get doesn’t exist today.”
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ performance on “Ed Sullivan,” their first appearance in America. Nielsen says 45 percent of all TV sets in use at the time were tuned into the broadcast, with fans and the uninitiated alike gathered shoulder to shoulder in their living rooms. The Beatles landed on a trigger point when they hit America. It was a pop culture sonic boom spurred by talent, timing and luck that’s still rattling the windows.
“This was a seismic shift in American culture and it gave the teenagers not only a voice but a way of being, a way of thinking that had never occurred before,” Beatles biographer Bob Spitz said.
(Excerpt) Read more at kens5.com ...
Beatlemania? Beatlemania is simply the result a neurological phenomena. When a male sings and his voice projects through an electric amplifier it has a direct effect on the midbrain of receptive women of child bearing age. It stimulates a tremendous almost hysterical need to copulate with the singer. Beatlemania and the behavior of women at rock concerts is best understood in that context.
I’m no musician...I can’t even play a jukebox, but Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh,and Keith Urban and their guitars was worth every minute of the show...
lol
With 2 exceptions, Kate Perry and the always disgusting Sean Penn, it was probably the best broadcast TV show I’ve seen since I can’t remember when.
Phenomenal!
Beatlemania was very nostalgic and the hits just kept on comin
As did The British Invasion, that time being the greatest months in modern music history IMO
The problem was when they got away from being entertainers and became polluters of the culture, much bigger polluters than their music was ever accused of.
Now THAT I would watch.
That’s a new boy band call “The Hoe moe boys”
I agree wholeheartedly!!!!!
I guess revolting cat must like ‘em....I’ve never seen anything that bad.....
Up until the point where Annie Lennox wore that disgusting shirt on stage that said HIV POSITIVE.
Pathetic.
For the fools, everything starts and ends with this illiterate musically pop group.
Who is Annie Lennox????
I would defy anyone to name ONE other group that will garner this kind of tribute. The Beatles hasn’t done anything collectively since April of 1970. Yet, 44 years late, they are still as fresh as the day any of their tunes rolled off the line. They were a rare mix of various talents that made it work. My personal favorite group.
A Letter from Elaina--Casey Kasem
From The Eurythmics
Exactly...You could see the audience singing the songs word for word with ages from 25 to 75 years old...Their music is and will be timeless....
I graduated high school in 65 and was just about the right age to have really known the Beatles. Their first US hits were in 64 and I really liked their music.
I never particularly thought of them personally but they could really sing, and also could really compose. They could also take another band’s song and do it better than the originals. For instance “Twist and Shout”.
and 50 years from now, how many people will even know who this bruno mars person is, let alone still hear music on the device that will have replaced the radio???
OK...She used to be a pretty good vocalist...She has lost a lot judging from tonight...
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