Word: beatlemania
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...able to lend a hand there. He signed on as the group's manager in 1961. By the end of the following year. boys got their first record contract and their first producer, George Martin, who remained aboard for the crazy cruise that came to be called Beatlemania. There was one final change of personnel: Drummer Pete Best was replaced by a gentleman named Richard Starkey, who favored quantities of heavy jewelry, most of it worn on the digits, and who went by the name of Ringo Starr...
...that phoney Beatlemania has bit the dust...
...Warsaw and he knelt, in his gleaming white cas sock, to kiss the earth of Poland, his countrymen converged upon him in joyful and dumbfounding millions. Babies, brought to be kissed or blessed. Grandmothers in bandannas. The teenage young flocking to him like rock fans afflicted with Beatlemania. Hard-faced coal miners, pampered by the workers' party, gathering around him by tens of thousands and roaring out the words of the hymn Christus Vincit (Christ Conquers), while the first Polish Pope in the history of the Catholic Church sang right along with them in his fine baritone...
...together by Bob Gill and Robert Rabinowitz, the pair that helped create Beatlemania, Lincoln Center's 30-minute son et lumière is an outsized history of the six-building performing arts complex, from its groundbreaking in May 1959, through its shaky early years, to its reasonably tranquil present. The movie, which will run through Labor Day, may not be the best show in New York City, but it is indisputably the biggest and one of the most pleasant...
...Gale also take pains to show the rebelliousness that the Beatles unleashed in their audience. Along the way we are casually reminded that the Beatles upended parent-child relationships, destroyed the Brylcreem market and supplanted the Kennedys as teen-age-culture heroes. One girl is so shaken by Beatlemania that she breaks up with her fiance; she suddenly senses that life has more possibilities than she had previously realized. A loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death of his macho '50s-greaser...