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Teen-agers are not the only ones swooning over the Beatles. Businessmen are also getting giddy-and no wonder. The Beatles' second American tour, which ended last week, grossed $1,000,000. In only six weeks, their movie, A Hard Day's Night, has reaped $5,800,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Beatle Business | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Up the Mods. Despite their common heritage (Elvis) and heroes (the Beatles), the foppish Mods and sullen Rockers like nothing better than to crack one another's skulls. Two mass bashes over the Easter and Whitsuntide weekends had only whetted the teen sects' appetites for more, as excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Rocks Round the Clock | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Don't let nobody say Tennessee don't stand by its own. When Memphis radio station WHBQ announced a contest for most popular rock-'n'-roll singer, and some misguided teen-agers sent in a passel of votes for them furrin Beatles, the five-man city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 26, 1964 | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

The psychodynamics of the rock 'n' roller has long been a fertile field of motivational researchers. In the primitive Blue Suede Shoes era eight years ago, Elvis was first explained as father of a faintly menacing breed of children's crusaders marshaling the anti-parent instinct into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Some Place near Despairsville | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Viva Las Vegas has the wholesome, mindless spontaneity it takes to create a successful Elvis Presley movie. This one gambles on hips, not chips. Chorus girls scamper through such neon fleshpots as the Stardust, Flamingo, Tropicana and Sahara, and Elvis himself, as wrinkleproof an example of modern packaging as anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Way-Out West | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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