The unprecedented exposure (approximately 73 million viewers), record-breaking television viewership and frantic enthusiasm would kick off Beatlemania, a phenomenon that has never evaporated.
When asked whether Swift, 34, and her musical empire is the “closest thing” to Beatlemania for this generation, Starr, 84, replied, “I do.” “I think Taylor Swift is great anyway ...
In a 1979 Rolling Stone interview, George Harrison expressed ambivalence about Beatlemania. “We were just four relatively sane people in the middle of madness,” he reflected. “People used us ...