Beatleness

How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World

Candy Leonard

• Publisher: Arcade
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781628726091
• eBook ISBN: 9781628727692
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Modern British History

"A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight... Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that]... six decades of Beatles literature passed over." — The Spectrum Part generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell the story of the Beatles and their impact on America from the fans' perspective. When the Beatles arrived in the United States on February 7, 1964, they immediately became a constant, compelling presence in fans' lives. For the next six years, the band presented a nonstop deluge of steadily evolving sounds, ideas, and images that transformed the childhood and adolescence of millions of baby boomers and nurtured a relationship unique in history. Exploring that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, political assassinations, the Vietnam War, and other events, Beatleness examines critically the often-heard assertion that the Beatles "changed everything" and shows how—through the interplay between the group, the fans, and the culture—that change came about. Beatleness incorporates hundreds of hours of in-depth fan interviews and includes many fan vignettes. Offering a fresh perspective and new insights on the Beatles phenomenon, it allows readers to experience—or re-experience—what it was like to be a young person during those transformative years.

Index

Note: Songs performed and albums recorded by The Beatles are marked as (song) and (album). Songs and albums by other musicians are marked with the musician’s name.

The 5th Dimension, 124, 216, 225

16 (magazine)

boys buying, 51

female readers, misunderstood, 160, 196

importance of, 159-160, 184

Kuryakin, Illya, 90

Rolling Stone, replaced by, 203

Stavers, Gloria, 159–160, 166

“19th Nervous Breakdown” (The Rolling Stones), 105

Abbey Road (album), 225–231, 249

ABC (broadcasting company)

American Bandstand, 134–35

Beatles at Shea (documentary), 129

Hollywood Palace, 72, 131, 175

Hootenanny, 14

Hullabaloo, 72, 93

The Monkees, 123

Shindig, 72, 93

acid. See drugs

“Act Naturally” (song), 87

Advise and Consent (Drury), 10

African Americans, 7–8, 177–78

age, of fans, xxi–xxii, 258–261

Alda, Alan, 18

Ali, Muhammad, 177–78

“All Day and All of the Night” (The Kinks), 73

“All My Loving” (song), 25, 32, 35

“All Together Now” (song), 200

“All You Need Is Love” (song), 101, 154, 167

Allen, Woody, 13

“Along Comes Mary” (The Association), 114

Altamont Speedway Festival, 237

AM radio, 170, 248

American Bandstand (television show), 14, 134–35

Anacin, 26, 88

“And Your Bird Can Sing” (song), 112, 269

anglophilia, 37–40

The Animals, 38, 73

“Another Girl” (song), 81

antiwar protests. See protests, antiwar

Apollo program, 4

Apple Records, 178–79, 187, 202, 216, 217, 245

“Aquarius” (The 5th Dimension), 216

Armstrong, Louis, 8

“As Tears Go By” (The Rolling Stones), 105

Asher, Jane, 71, 187

Asher, Peter, 71. See also Peter and Gordon

Associated Press, 239

The As...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface to the Original Edition
• Acknowledgments
• One Setting the Stage
• Two Something New
• Three British Boys
• Four The Embodiment of Cool
• Five I’d Love to Turn You On
• Six We All Want to Change the World
• Seven The Last Leg
• Eight Beatleness Abounds
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Discussion Questions
• Photo Insert