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The world, especially America, believed they have gotten the hang of idol's fan with the biggest crowd generated being from Elvis Presley. Elvis made himself the biggest thing around the world with his charisma, unique sound, and music. He had many fans, but it was never something the guards couldn't handle. No one was ready for the fans when the Beatles arrived in America. The fan base of the Beatles was iconic in history and ever since then, no one or group has been able to top them.

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Beatlemania occurred before The Beatles got to America, but I believe that the term Beatlemania and the meaning of it was fully realized at the airport The Beatles arrived at when they first came to America in 1964. As the book"What's That Sound?" by John Covach said, Beatlemania described "the tremendous amount of excitement among fans at the band's live performances." So many people, mainly girls, fell in literal love with The Beatles, making them try anything to see the boys and talk to them. The airport the Beatles arrived at was in a frenzy, people were fainting or got injured, and the Beatles could barely make it out of their alive. This is how it was at their live performances also and honestly just anywhere where the Beatles were in public. Below is a picture of the Beatles getting of the plane at Kennedy Airport and you can see many fans behind them.

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What did the Beatles think about "Beatlemania"?

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What did the Beatles think about "Beatlemania"?

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No one saw the fandom for the Beatles to be like the way it was, even the Beatles themselves. I am sure in the beginning, because they were just a small band who played in small clubs in Europe, they felt glad to have generated a big fan base and have become a successful music group. Thanks to their fan base they have been able to make a career out of music and have been able to journey all over the world, so they should and most likely were extremely grateful. Although they were grateful, over the course of their career the fan base possibly took "Beatlemania" too far and ended up hurting the fans themselves when the Beatles had their last performance in 1966 at Candlestick Park.

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Why would "Beatlemania" be a front runner reason for the Beatles to stop performing live?

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Why would "Beatlemania" be a front runner reason for the Beatles to stop performing live?

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The fans of the Beatles took everything to a different level for the first time in music history. They had banners that said things like "I love you George" or "I will love the Beatles forever" and Beatles merch like hair wigs of the mop heads, pins, posters and more. These fans made the Beatles, boys who they only listened to but never officially met, the center of their entire lives. At concerts, there were so many people inside the concert and outside that the security and safety became a huge concern. There were so many fans in the small area which led to many injuries and many people passing out and needing to head to the hospital. Also, with so many people at each concert with little equipment to compensate for it, the Beatles could not hear themselves AT ALL over all the screaming and crying of the audience. As Paul McCartney said,  "We couldn’t hear ourselves when we were live, as there was so much screaming going on."  Below is the Beatles performing at Shea Stadium. You can see how large the crowd is, and that's only one side of the stadium!!

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Another picture of the Beatles at Shea Stadium showing a full view of how large the crowd was at Shea Stadium.

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Another picture of the Beatles at Shea Stadium showing a full view of how large the crowd was at Shea Stadium.

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Going in depth on one of the reasons given in the previous slide on how "Beatlemania" led to the Beatles to stop performing live; the screaming of the girls making it impossible for the Beatles to hear themselves perform. Although it was nice to know that the audience like them performing and that the audience knew their songs, the Beatles become a little hurt. This is because it was seen by them that the audience didn't care what they did on stage because they just cared about seeing the boys themselves, plus they couldn't hear anything. Many times, John Lennon sang the wrong lyrics to their songs and no one noticed. The Beatles were full on musicians; meaning they loved writing and playing and the overall musicianship of it all. They did not go into the music industry to be looked at like an exhibit at the zoo, they wanted people to listen to the music they put out to them and to enjoy it. It made performing for them unenjoyable. This is the main reason why the Beatles stopped performing live.

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What happened after the boys stopped performing live?

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What happened after the boys stopped performing live?

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The Beatles did not stop making music just because they stopped playing live performances. The main reason they stopped playing live was because no one was listening to their music anymore and the boys weren't improving musically themselves, so after their last concert they went to the studio for excessive hours and got the peace and quiet they needed. They were able to grow up more musically and develop different sounds and lyrics that was helped them prosper even more than before. They released about 6 albums after their last performance at Candlestick Park (1966), starting with Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band in 1967. Even though the band's sound was changing and they weren't performing live, they still were just as successful because they already had a foundation of fans. Because of their stability in the music industry, they could take big risks like not performing live and music changes.

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"Beatlemania" is nothing America and the world has ever seen before. It was excitingly scary and showed just how popular this 4 boy band from Europe was and how influential their music was. These fans put the Beatles in the center of their lives and loved them with all their heart, which may have hurt them in the end. Because of too many people at concerts, bad security, no safety, and the Beatles being looked at like zoo animals in an exhibit, the Beatles performed their last live concert at Candlestick Park in 1966. This was not the end of the Beatles though, they released 6 albums in the following years and were just as successful as they were before thanks to their stable fan base. Although we missed seeing their beautiful faces and their voices live, because of their leave from live performing the boys were able to develop musically and got the peace and quiet they deserved. Their overall sound changed so much from their pop sound from before, but the Beatles were still loved just as much and seeing how successful the boys can be in any sound of music really shows just how important this band is in Rock n Roll's history.