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  Why Those Screaming Beatlemania Girls Matter

  Those videos of Beatlemania girls screaming have have always made me squirm. All that howling, weeping, and writhing bug me for multiple reasons. As a woman, they make me cringe because rock criticism defined itself against them: screeching gals over there, analytical guys over here. As a Beatles fan they make me wince because they (superficially) […]

  Posted: November 30th, 2015 ˑ  15 Comments
  Filled under: Beatlemania, Beatles Criticism, books, pre-Beatles, Television

• "I’m 15 and I feel like 80"

  Well, sister, I’m 43 and feel like 15. Or 180. It changes from moment to moment. Slate reproduces this great letter written by a 15-year-old in 1964 to US Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, insisting that her beloved Beatles be allowed back into the country, mostly for her own health and well-being. (Apparently the […]

  Posted: January 14th, 2013 ˑ  1 Comment
  Filled under: 1964