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The fans were REALLY young

posted 11 years ago by elisedfr
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Funny, when I read about Beatlmania in magazines or websites, the fans are always pictured as teen girls or young women going crazy and wild. Watching this movie, which presents seemingly genuine fans, I was surprised how young most of these kids looked. Yes, there were girls in their late teens-early twenties in the tv show audience, but most of the hysterical ones were barely 12-14 years old looking- or else they looked much younger than their years.
There were also a lot of young boys among the fans, actually (see the scene with the Grandfather trying to sell "autographed pictures").
Anyone else was surprised ? The older girls from this movie seem to react more casually to the Beatles presence: they make eyes at them, flirt, dance and chat...But don't pull their hair screaming and crying lol.

" You ain't running this place, Bert, WILLIAMS is!" Sgt Harris

[–] liscarkat (19416) 2 years ago

I was a ten-year-old boy in fourth grade when Beatlemania hit the U.S., and most of the girls my own age were obsessed, along with the teenagers. The Sav-on drug store in my neighborhood was well-stocked with Beatle boots (with portraits of each Beatle drawn on them) and Beatle wigs. My friends and I eventually got electric guitars, but we were more into playing surf music. I didn't know any adults who were not skeptical of the Beatles and Rock and Roll in general.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

This is a normal thing as far as "boy bands" go. And I'm not saying this as a put down of The Beatles, at all. I know that they are far and away from what people normally think of when you say the term "boy band". I'm just saying when you look at groups like Duran Duran, Nsync, The Backstreet Boys, 98° etc etc etc etc, the fandoms usually start very young.