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[maskitheclown]

Ok, here's what I'm wondering. Who listened to The Beatles  while they were active?

I hear all these smart, intelligent, worldly grownups crapping on "teenage music" and while it's hardly my intention to compare Britney Spears to The Beatles, I can't really imagine that musically sophisticated 40+ year-olds were The Beatles' main audience in the 60's.

Were they?? All I ever saw was screaming fangirls.

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[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

The Beatles' main audience was definitely teens and young adults, but I'm not sure whether that many intelligent, worldly grownups really had that much negative stuff about them (if they were really listening, anyway).

I'm curious, now, about what adults in general thought about them at the time. As for my own parents, I once asked why they didn't tune in to Ed Sullivan to see them, and my mom said that it just seemed like there was too much screaming, and it made it hard to enjoy the band. I don't think she had anything against the band, itself, and I know my dad was a bit of a fan once I became one myself (after they'd broken up, sadly), and he was exposed to more of their music. Being an education musician himself, he loved their unschooled approach, and the fresh way they did things "because they didn't know any better," as he put it. :)

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, that's how I think most adults saw them then, as noisy or in need of some more musical learning :)

But I'd like to find some random music critics of the time, see what they had to say. Hm, internet is big, surely it's stashed somewhere.