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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