Thankfully enough...
If you watched the show tonight, you probably saw something that you’ll never ever see again....
It was fantastic...
I just don’t get the appeal. I guess because I was not born during that time explains why I could care less about any of the Beatles. Also the fact that Paul married that idiot woman after losing the love of his life really made me think he was insane.
Most overrated band in music history.
RIAA monopoly
RIP.
See, I can explain the phenomenon more accurately with one word and two acronyms.
Last week, Bruno Mars set a ratings record with 115 million people watching his Super Bowl performance.
Really? That is just sad.......
Never even heard of this guy before the Superbowl. I only watch the FOOTBALL GAME. No halftime or extended 32 hour pregame crap........
Thank God for DVR............and delayed, no commercial, no crap, viewing......
Beatlemania? Beatlemania is simply the result a neurological phenomena. When a male and his voice voice goes 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.
Bruno Mars set a ratings record with 115 million people watching his Super Bowl performance.
A squirrel running in a wheel would have the same “record”
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.
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.
For the fools, everything starts and ends with this illiterate musically pop group.
A Letter from Elaina--Casey Kasem
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???What made The Beatles so special was that had an attitude and cockiness about them. They weren't humble and didn't "Yes sir" the press like Elvis did. In Elvis' case, he worked for Tom Parker and did his bidding. Well The Beatles didn't work for their manager, Brian Epstein. Rather Epstein worked for them. By that time, The Beatles were already writing most of their own songs and they were going to write their own ticket.
So when The Beatles came to New York in February 1964, the media of the day was sent to the airport to "cut them down to size" in a press conference, they were in for a rude awakening.
See, The Beatles were not some recording company creation of "pretty boys". This was a hardened, tight rock and roll band that had spent the past few years cutting their teeth in German strip clubs and English pubs and dives - as many as 300 shows per year!
So they had been around the block a few times when they landed at JFK (then still Idlewild) and confronted the bewildered media (who were trying to comprehend the 5,000 screaming fans that played hooky from school and swarmed the airport to greet them).
That first press conference (you can find it on YouTube) is hysterical to watch. The media had no idea how to deal with these wise-cracking long-haired lads from England. Their silly questions were immediately answered by snappy one-liners. For example "How do you find America?" was answered by "We hung a left at Greenland".
America's youth instantly fell in love with them and the fuddy-duddy parents were left scratching their heads as The Beatles went ahead and changed the culture literally overnight.
For better or worse, things would never be the same again.
I asked my sister today who was the better song writer. Paul or John. She said John. I laughed at her because despite being a prick (royal prick now), Paul had more talent in his pinky then all of John. John was just the cool one and Ringo was the only one of them that could act decently. Just watch Caveman with Stan Matuszak and Barbara Bach, Shelly Long, Dennis Quaid.
I was 12 years old and lived in a very small southern town population 300 or so. It was all everyone talked about the next day in school. And if there was anyone didn’t watch it, they didn’t admit it.