Beatlemania

The term Beatlemania indicates the extraordinary passion which in the Années 1960 the Beatles caused, group of British Pop music. Their success indeed became extensive of a true social phenomenon (beyond a simple fashion), which had only few equivalents in the history of the music.

Phenomenon of Beatlemania analyzes

The beatlemania is a phenomenon of considerable width and with several facets. Youth takes taste to be capped and get dressed with the Beatles , as the photographs testify some to streets of the time. Record dealers specialize on the only discs of Beatles. For better managing its stocks the EMI/Parlophone company proposes even the présouscription if one wishes to hold his specimen of the next disc (before even as it did not leave, or than whoever knows to what it will resemble).

Sometimes the hysterical atmosphere in the concerts returns them in extreme cases of the inaudible one; British the Prime Minister notices nevertheless that these artists are for the country an excellent “export”, including in terms of image: that of young smiling people, polished, equipped well, and full with a very British humor during the interviews. They are decorated by the queen with the United Kingdom, the June 12th 1965, of the medal of Member off the British Empire (MBE). It is in fact lowest of decorations. What imports! Certain MBE, ruffled, return by spite their own cross to His Very Gracious Majesty. As for truths honors, they will arrive much later, when Sir James Paul McCartney (like, side Stones, Sir Michael Jagger) are anoblis and besides lords of the manor.

It benefit from the great beginnings of the era of the communication, give concerts in increasingly large rooms, make use of the rise of music industry and television with emissions increasingly looked by a public primarily composed of the young people of all the countries: the Beatles are thus the first to be passed in an emission diffused in “Mondovision” on June 25th 1967 (with the song All You Need Is Love ).

Since 1965, Beatles do not sing practically any more that in playback on television and Paul is explained some: We do a very important work of studio, correcting inlassablement the least imperfection with a precision maniac. Not question of offering to the televiewers, whereas this sound exists, a other its deformed by the bad studios of the plates of TV . Always in 1965, Beatles take the resolution not to give autographs more: We do not have quite simply enough arm, and we must all the same be able to use our guitars from time to time! .

Behind success, in addition to the quality of the songs, a Marketing without fault: one tries to put in each album a song which likes the former generation ( Till There Was You , You Really Got has Hold one Me ; Besame Mucho will remain in the paperboards; to see Beatles however - the bands Decca) as well as a standard of the rock'n'roll ( Kansas City ) of Little Richard in 1959.

Not to be made catalog like “Mods” and lose the public of the “Rockers”, Brian Epstein has an idea: Beatles, finding one moment the leather of their beginnings, leave a disc four titles of “pure and hard” rock'n'roll ( Matchbox , I Cal Your Name , Long Tall Sally , and Slow Down ) which must be the “disc of the initiates” and watch “what Beatles can really make when they want it”. Satisfied by this bone to corrode , the rockers will not disparage any more Beatles themselves, but the fans who buy their other discs and not knowing what is the true music of Beatles, which showed that they could do well better than pop . The presence of a “standard of rock'n'roll” will become to reconcile this public (but also to give pleasure) a impossible to circumvent albums.

In the film has Hardware Day' S Night , turned in black and white not to be too expensive, but also to mask the fact that they do not have the same color of hair, and entrusted to Richard Lester, Beatles orchestrate their own legend skilfully, with a very British humor. This humor becomes delirious with Help! , at the summer 1965 (colors), where Beatles make fun of them same. One goes until comparing them with the Marx Brothers, which John considers excessive. George Harrison, him, valley a solid friendship with Eric Idle and groups it Monty Python.

British humor remains a component impossible to circumvent of Beatles. Some examples drawn from interviews:

“- What fear you more? The atomic bomb or films? (sniggers)
- The atomic bomb, since we have already films (howl of laughing at the audience)”

“Can you sing us something?
- Money initially! ”

“Do you Repeat much?
- For what to make? We play already in concert every evening, you know. ”

“You played formerly of the standards. Why done it you more?
- Because now, we create some. ”

“How is called your hairstyle?
- Arthur. ”

“Ringo, are you mods or rockers ?
- Personally, I am a mocker '' (in the film has Day Hardware' S Night will be included)”

“How did you find America?
- While turning left to Greenland! ”

The album drunk Rubber will be later thus named for pasticher the expression drunk plastic (influenceable heart). Rubber Sole , which decides almost with the identical one, means “rubber sole”!

John Lennon looks after his character avant-gardist while writing in 1964 and 1965 two books of short news in a picturesque and surrealist style, In His Own Write then has Spaniard in the Works . The criticism of the time does not make them warm welcome, but Christiane Rochefort will translate the first under the title Into obvious is delirious .

Meanwhile, the Beatles fan club works to cherish a network of fans with which one concedes no-claims bonus (unseen photos, discs except trade offered to Christmas). These fans testify to popularity to Beatles whose principal craftsmen are Brian Epstein for the organization part and George Martin for the musical part. As of the beginning of the year 1960, George Martin made with any chance record an album of symphonic music inspired by Beatles. Another, more worked out, will follow well later to replace it. About the year 2000, CD named Beatles Go Baroque and resulting from the Eastern European countries will make in the same way.

Quotations and anecdotes

Anecdotes

In August 1961, the German label Polydor leaves their first 45 turns My Bonnie (My Bonnie dregs over the ocean) with like name of interpreters “ Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers ”. The name The Beatles is regarded as too risky in Germany because it sounds like the word peedles , German Argot meaning penis.

Pete Best will be avenged for its ousting while leaving its own album, Best, off the Beatles (note the comma!). This album will have however only one success of curiosity. The most required bizarreries of Beatles at the time are their first albums with Tony Sheridan under the name of Beat Brothers , like their songs in German - makes a simple vocal re-recording of it German on the existing instrumental tapes ( My Bonnie ) - and even… the songs of Beatles left in 78 turns in India!

Prince off Wales Theater, London, November 4th 1963: At the time of the Royal Variety Performance , in the presence of the royal family, before singing Twist and Shout , John Lennon launched: “ For our last number I' D like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest off you, yew you' L just rattle your jewelry. ” (“For our last song, I will like to ask for your assistance. Would the people in the least expensive places like to type hands? And the remainder of the public, if you could just make resound your jewels”).

It is on the councils of Brian Epstein that old the Thistle Café is renamed The Beatle Café . At the time of the large opening of the Beatle Coffee in Wirral, West Kirby, Merseyside, Cheshire, the 1962, Beatles were not there and never the feet put besides at it.

the November 5th 1963, the leading article of Daily Mirror “ Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! ” writes this: “You must really be bougrement limited not to like Beatles noisy, happy and gracious. If they do not sweep your blue with far, brother, you are a lost cause. If they do not put a rate/rhythm in your feet, sister, it is that you do not listen. ”

Several discs of Beatles that they are 45 turns or 33 turns leave on small American Label S SWAN - founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1957 by Bernie Binnick and Tony Mammarella -, Vee Jay - founded with Chicago, Illinois, in 1953 by Vivian Carter and his/her husband James Bracken - and also Tollie Records - launched in California in 1964 by Vee Jay - following the refusal of Capitol Records to distribute them to the the United States. Since 1964 first individual despite everything already is distributed in 1963 and two others imported of Canada, EMI the United Kingdom, owner in major part of the shares of Capitol Records which it had repurchased with the founders Glenn E. Wallicks, Buddy DeSylva and Johnny Mercer in Los Angeles, California in 1942 in 1956 (not in 1955!), obliges this Major to leave all the discs Beatles on this label other small labels especially Vee Jay having acquired the rights, the guard according to a judgment given by judge Mervyn A. Aggeler on [[July 23rd] 1964]. However, Vee Jay Records Inc. cannot publish any new material any more coming from Beatles after the deadline of the October 15th 1964. Vee Jay will on their premises reserve the right (acquired) of repackaging (new presentation) of albums left before to the great displeasure Capitol Records. The last start of Vee Jay Inc. is to republish the album Hear The Beatles Such All in September 1964 but this time in rechannelled stereo = mono-compatible stereophony in 1979 and the same one in Picture-disc in August 1987 on Vee Jay International.

the January 3rd 1963, Beatles at the head start in Scotland a round (4 nights) of poster to the Two Red Shoes Ballroom with Elgin, Morayshire, after the first night was removed because of the bad weather. On the posters, one can read that they are named “ The Love Me C Servant boys - The Beatles ”.

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super the 45 turns Sandwich on which one sees the four Beatles equipped with the French mode is sold a few years ago with a French remained anonymous for the moderate amount of 20 000 francs French is 2 975 euros and it is yet nothing beside the American prices which, for a republication of time at summer 1962 of My Bonnie on DECCA 31382, reached the tidy sum of money of 12 000 dollars is a little more 9 800 euros! There exists also a republication of the EP Sandwich of 1978 also appeared on Odéon/EMI evaluated with the neighborhoods of 200 euros.

In connection with the song Yellow Submarine . At the beginning, the band (the master) is in stereophony (analogical) with the “means of the edge” (not more than 4 track-sounds). The Sound engineer of this session in April 1966, Geoff Emerick, had carried out a stereo transfer for the 33 turns but into mono for the 45 turns. “True” stereophony is marketed for the 45 turns only as from 1969.

the year following the publication of Sergeant Pepper , Frank Zappa Parody the small pocket with the album We' Re Only In It For The Money of the Mothers off Invention. Another Pastiche is carried out for The Rutles , an emission of Eric Idle of the Monty Python entitled All You Need Is Cash (diffused for the first time the March 27th 1978 on BBC TV<) which undertakes to caricature the career of Beatles to the manner of the famous group of humorists, with the blessing - and partly the financing - of his/her friend George Harrison, as well as the contest of Paul Frederic Simon and Mick Jagger, which plays their own part there. The pastiches of the songs of Beatles created for the emission are as many winks to the musical tics their models - Ouch! imitated Help! , Cheese and Onions which has accents of has Day in the Life , Piggy in the Middle evoking I Am the Walrus , Doubleback Alley which is the cousin of Penny Lane , etc Bidochons will pasticheront also this small pocket for their album The Beadochons . However, it is not it which will be pastichée, but that of Abbey Road . Even Paul McCartney will be put at it. Precision however that when McCartney learns that Let It Be carried the title of P' tites Bites , it will become insane furious…

the January 30th 1969, Beatles with Billy Preston with the keyboard S, carry out their last concert which lasts only 42 minutes on the roof of Apple building, 3 Savile Row, Mayfair, center of London, following an injunction of the local police to stop playing. Stephen King (!), chief-accountant of a close bank, Royal Bank off Scotland, had called the police force to complain “because of the noise”.

the April 12th 1990, the Asteroid S 4147-4150, discovered in 1983 and 1984 by Mr. Brian A. Skiff and Dr. Edward Bowell, from the observatory of Lowell located at Flagstaff, Arizona, the United States, are now called Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr, announced the International Astronomical Union' S minor planet center located at Cambridge, Minnesota, the United States.

the name given to Lucy, “the ancestor of the Man”, comes straight of the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds : indeed, the scientist studied the project was fan of the group.

10 or the August 14th 1985, Michael Jackson pay between 47 and 47,5 million dollars (either approximately between 38 448 600 and 38 857 700 € million) competition with McCartney and Yoko Ono to become owner of ATV Music including/understanding e.a. Northern Songs which contains all the catalog of the songs (250) of Beatles and also Petula Clark e.a.!. McCartney and Ono declare fixed price estimating that it is much too expensive paid: Jackson had warned Paul little time before that it would repurchase ATV Music costs which costs… McCartney and Jackson, however some time singers in duet ( Say say say and The girl is mine ) are scrambled temporarily. Time will reconcile them little by little. McCartney avoids then what could have been a catastrophe with Let It Be for the business of the Ferry Aid (1987) while telephoning in the urgency with Jackson to explain to him why the royalties will be versed with a work. This new version (including McCartney) is classified N°1 with the hit British parade--->Voir The Beatles' Songbook .

the November 9th 1995, Sony Corp. pay in Jackson a sum estimated between 95 and 110 million dollars to form what will become thereafter the third larger editor world of music: Sony/ATV Music Publishing .

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