Word: beatlemania
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...what may become the ultimate footnote to rock history, it is worth nothing that Crenshaw got his start by playing the part of John Lennon in Beatlemania. Clearly, singing "Help," "Strawberry Fields" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" night after night rubbed off. And if you listen carefully enough, there are moments when Crenshaw brings the Walrus back to life...
...them." Walter Brown, head of the job placement office at California State University at Los Angeles, distills the mood of the class of '82 this way: "If a recruiter from Dow Chemical showed up here now and he had jobs, he would be greeted with something resembling Beatlemania...
...exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained elements of self-parody...
...Beatles had ceased to exist, except on records and film, ten years earlier. Hopes that the lads from Liverpool would somehow come together again fed on myths, not reality; an inability to tell one from the other was a prime symptom of Beatlemania. The Beatles themselves were not always immune. Their biographer tries to be, and largely succeeds. His detailed narrative sets forth a story that still, no matter how carefully documented, seems unbelievable...
...teen-ager in 1964, I contracted "Beatlemania," a condition that appears to be permanent. The Beatles meant good music and good clean fun. I'm glad I had them instead of some of the other diversions of the teen years...