Word: beatlemania
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...persons," he confessed. "Of course, it cannot do this when it comes to being all things to traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder." He also had something to say about Beatlemania: "I really could not care less how much noise people make singing and dancing. The noise I object to is people righting and stealing. It seems to me that these blokes are helping people to enjoy themselves, and that is far better than the other thing...
...midnight panic swept through the crowd at Carlisle; girls screamed, sirens wailed. Four thousand stood all night at Newcastle, faces pinched and grim in a drenching rain. Fifty bobbies were needed to fight the crush at Hull in Yorkshire. "Beatlemania," as Britons call the new madness, was striking everywhere, and last week the Queen Mother herself confronted the four young Liverpudlians responsible. There on the stage of London's Prince of Wales Theater stood a wild rhythm-and-blues quartet called the Beatles, and there across the moat of Establishment faces sat the Queen Mother. "Those in the cheaper...