THE BEATLES
FIFTY YEARS LATER
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hat would be a bombshell
by the 60s sounded only as a cliché, as a Russian physician practicing in the
US started browsing on the Beatles . “ What made them successful was the lyrics”
he concluded as he was labeling the new
NY mayor Di Blasio, as a man with a
vision going beyond capitalism. Anyway, he was fond of the Beatles and seemed
to pay his own tribute to the so called Beatlemania.
A late Haitian
immigrant remembered the coming of the Beatles by February 1964. “it was
unbelievable” told Mr. Claude Sassine. A man with a heart full of love and high
spirits, M. Sassine reminded those frenzy girls rushing at the NY airport and
greeting these teenagers steeping out from Pan Am. The British invasion had
started, a kind of sentimental Normandy, a musical D-day. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would have silenced his guns.
Wikipedia
wrote:
“The
Beatles were an English rock band
that formed in Liverpool, in 1960. With John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr,
they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the
rock era.[1] Rooted
in skiffle and
1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with
several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic
rock, often incorporating classical elements
in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged
as "Beatlemania",
but as their songwriting grew in sophistication they came to be perceived as an
embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.”
Today
the Beatles’ legacy can be summarized in a nutshell: a collapse of
everything we used to live with as baby boomers. A revolution is still under
way that reminds the thinking of Merleau Ponty . The
novelist Andre Gide is not too far
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| THE COMING OF THE BEATLES FEBRUARY 1964 |
