![]() Looking back, from the year 2013, I understand that musically they weren’t playing anything that hadn’t been heard from the 1950s rockers (aside from J&P’s remarkable songwriting talents) but it was their hair that all the early U.S. All the articles about the Beatles made them sound like freaks, because of their hair. “Their faces covered by manes of wild hair” …reportage like that. All the journalists were amazed at the weird hair. ![]() ![]() Ten years later, as an obsessed teenager in the 1970s, I used to haunt our public library and read old magazines from 1963/63… Time, Look, Life as well as newspapers. I remember teachers and classmates insisting they wore wigs. I was in elementary school when the Beatles hit America. I remember after the Ed Sullivan appearance, people couldn’t stop talking about their hair, as if it was the weirdest, sickest thing, heretofore unheard of. it was like a gang of transvestites had invaded show business (if you read accounts in the New York Times. This is probably a minor part of the larger Beatles legend, but I’ve always been fascinated by their “look” because when they arrived in the U.S. He looks like he’s right out of the Hard Day’s Night film, but this movie is from 1958/1959. Check out the dude in this clip from “Serious Charge” … he appears at approximately 2:07 minutes. ![]()
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