Friday 19 September 2014

BEATLES IN DALLAS

Fifty years ago, the Beatles played their only Dallas concert. And I was there. Me, my best friends Bobbie and Sondra, and 10,000 other Beatlemaniacs. It was the highlight of my almost 14 years. Nothing was as exciting before — or possibly since. Yet now I scarcely remember what all the shouting was about.
 


Well, we didn’t shout. We were far too sophisticated for that. “We might have squealed a little,” Sondra said.
The Beatles burst on the American music scene earlier that year like a jolt of electricity, splitting the world into before and after. Now that pop music is so diverse, it’s hard to imagine how the band would affect today’s music. Yet the Beatles are part of the reason for pop’s diversity. After the Beatles, nothing was ever the same — not for music and not for Bobbie, Sondra and me.



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