Revisiting my It Has to Be Read. selection for the month of April, Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World, by Sociologist and Author, Candy Leonard.
I was born in mid-1962 and thus am too young to remember them on the Ed Sullivan show. My parents were roughly the same age as the Beatles, and had a lot of their albums, so I grew with their music as my sonic wallpaper. I also was always used to men having long hair, so when I later heard that their hair when they first came to the USA was considered long, I was surprised because I considered that to be short hair.
The Kennedy assassination was followed one week later by the release of The Beatles single. That is the dividing point between the 50s & 60s.
I was born in mid-1962 and thus am too young to remember them on the Ed Sullivan show. My parents were roughly the same age as the Beatles, and had a lot of their albums, so I grew with their music as my sonic wallpaper. I also was always used to men having long hair, so when I later heard that their hair when they first came to the USA was considered long, I was surprised because I considered that to be short hair.