Beatles: We Loved Them Yeah

We Wanna Hold Your Hand; How the Beatles took America It is now 6:30 A.M. Beatle time. The left London 30 minutes ago. They’re out over the Atlantic Ocean heading for New York. The temperature is 32 Beatle Degrees”(Szatmary 113). The transistor radio reported every few minutes on the morning of Friday, February 7, 1964. It was a day that would mark a musical milestone sending shockwaves through the United States. The plane landed, the Beatles stepped out, …

…Beatles. The subsequent success of the Beatles has yet to be paralleled in this country but one important residual effect can still be felt. The Beatles made it possible for other countries to have musical influence and to infiltrate American music. America created the need for the Beatles, and the band impacted American music and popular culture in very significant ways. Sir Paul McCartney says it best “We were just spokesmen for a generation” (Szatmary128).