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Fifty years on, November 22, 1963 continues to resonate. For most of us, that was when America lost its youthful leaderas well as a certain amount of innocence. But it was also the day that, over in Britain, the making of a cultural tsunami was taking shape. That Friday saw the release of With the Beatles, the second album from what would soon be called Englands Phenomenal Pop Combo.
The story of the New Frontier giving way to the British Invasion is thus inextricably intertwined in public memory. Sadness and loss were soon eclipsed by joy and exhilaration brought on by this novel act when they arrived in the states months later. On February 9, 1964, it is no exaggeration to say that America was once again united before their television sets in a way they hadnt been since the awful events of the previous autumnthis time, for more positive reasons.
The Beatles debut on The Ed Sullivan Show was a watershed event that quite literally changed countless lives. But in the years since that momentous occasion, conventional wisdom has conflated the two events: the youth of America got over their grief when these four youngsters from Liverpool cheered them up with their exuberance and charm. It was as though without a national tragedy first occurring, the road to the groups success and acceptance here might not have happenedat least not on the same hysterical scale.
As detailed in Changin Times: 101 Days That Shaped A Generation, pop culture historian Al Sussman challenges this media-fueled mythology, describing the cultural British Invasion already well underway before President Kennedy ever went to Texas. Likewise, the notion that the December 1963 success of The Singing Nuns Dominique, chalked up to a mourning country in no mood for rock n roll, is belied by The Kingsmens inscrutable Louie Louie simultaneously dominating local markets.
Changin Times takes you on a journey back to a very singular moment of transformation in American Historyfor a generation, and for the world as well. Sussman leaves no cultural touchstone unturned, revealing how, in Dylans words, the times they are a-changin was no overstatement.
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