HIST105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Star Maker, Beat Music, Lonnie Donegan
11 Sep 2016
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The advance emi/capitol beatles publicity blitz 1963: huge sums of money spent in advance of their arrival on merchandizing, it worked to perfection beatlemania was widespread, haircuts, turnout at the haircut. The assassination of president john f kennedy (nov 22 1963) & the arrival of. The beatles: timing seemed to be perfect. Competition: beatles direct competition was the dave clark five, the beatle invasion led to a seismic shift in music, england rivals u. s as world"s leading producer of rock music, rock becomes a transatlantic phenomenon. Outside of united states, england was number importer of rock music: american invasion (1950s) presley, holly and many other acts had been touring uk, uk was a huge consumer of u. s pop culture product. Changes of post war england: many shortages, repairs, and not as much growth in the u. k as the u. s, barry miles quoted post war england drab & grey .
