Beetle Mania

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of the coming of the
Beatles on it's editorial page at that time. Said the Sun: "The
Beatles are coming. Those four words are said to be enough to jelly
the spine of the most courageous police captain in Britain... Since,
in this case, the Beatles are coming to America, America had better
take thought as to how it will deal with the invasion... Indeed, a
restrained 'Beatles, go home,' might be just the thing." Precisely
how, when, and where Beatlemania got started nobody- not even their
late manager Brian Epstein(who died of a drug overdose in 1967) can
say for sure. The Beatles are a product of Liverpool, which had a
population of some 300 rock and roll bands( or "beat groups," as
Liverpudlians are wont to call them). The beat groups hawked their
musical wares in countless small cellar clubs, old stores and movie
houses, even in a converted church, nearly all of which are in
proximity to the Mersey River. Out of all these groups came, somehow,
the Beatles. And they had to go to Germany to do it. In order to
better their...