Roll Over Bach, Too

摘要

Were you there? If not, you really can never know. Amazement must be experienced firsthand, and the coming of the Beatles was an amazement. Girls screamed; the captions in NEWSWEEK'S Feb. 24, 1964, cover story read:"eeeeeeeeeeeee ... EEEEEEEEEEEEE... EEEEEEEEEEEE!" And the London Times music critic praised the Beatles' "pandia-tonic clusters" and "flat-sub-mediant key-switches." Both reactions were perfectly appropriate; the Beatles were blowing minds and nervous systems. And cash registers. On their first U.S. tour, two entrepreneurial types bought the pillowcases on which the four mop-tops had reposed in a Kansas City hotel and sliced them into 160,000 tiny squares, which they sold for a dollar each.