McCartney Times

Why did The Beatles rise to unprecedented goddamn prominence so quickly? Well, the truth is, it’s because there was nothing quick about it. They always say that every overnight success is five years in the making, and The Beatles may well be music’s great example of that. The timeline of them going from zero to hero in America feels so quick that we can often forget just how much time and effort went into their music, performance style, and all-around careers before that. When you look at Beatlemania, the three key moments consist of the song ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ charting in the US, The Beatles flying over to America and then The Beatles playing on The Ed Sullivan Show. After those three phases were complete, everyone was suddenly living in a post-Beatles world, and it was one that looked as though it would be changed forever.

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Source: The gig Paul McCartney called “a complete nightmare”