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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Fri Feb 7, 2014, 10:03 PM Feb 2014

Billboard: How the Beatles went viral in America

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5894018/how-the-beatles-went-viral-in-america-1964?page=0%2C1

Six weeks is all it took for the Liverpool foursome to go from unknowns to the biggest pop stars in the USA. Here's an exhaustive look at how it happened.

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Billboard: How the Beatles went viral in America (Original Post) LiberalElite Feb 2014 OP

I think it is impossible... sendero Feb 2014 #1

I was about 10 years old. texanwitch Feb 2014 #2

sendero

(28,552 posts)

1. I think it is impossible...

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Fri Feb 7, 2014, 10:54 PM

Feb 2014

..... for those who weren't there, to understand the impact the Beatles had on ... well the 60s in general. They WERE the 60s. I was a wee lad when the Sullivan show was aired but I saw it. It was only a few years later that I became a true fan and remain one.

texanwitch

(18,705 posts)

2. I was about 10 years old.

Reply to sendero (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 7, 2014, 11:08 PM

Feb 2014

I was not that interested in them.

You did have to be there to see it happen.

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