Barry wrote: (snip) > Then the Beatles arrived, preceded by a wave of near-
> hysterical media hype. I'm honestly not sure which con- > tributed more to the Beatles' success in the US -- their > talent, or the hype. I lean to the latter. See enough TV > stories (or, in those days, movie News trailers before > your movie) Um, just for the record, there was plenty of news on TV by 1963. > of star-struck Beatles fans and your young > impressionable mind has already been pre-programmed > to love them when you see them live. I don't think I'd ever heard of the Beatles before one of my roommates brought home the 45 of "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sometime in the auturmn of 1963, which I and both my roommates (college graduates all) instantly went nuts over. But of course that's because none of us had any taste in music...
