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Beatlemania Wiki Information
Beatlemania
was a term used during the 1960s to describe the intense fan frenzy particularly demonstrated by young teen girls directed toward The Beatles during the early years of their success. The word is a portmanteau of "Beatles" and "mania". Andi Lothian, a former Scottish music promoter, claims that he coined the term while speaking to a reporter at the Caird Hall Beatles concert that took place as part of the Beatles Mini-Tour of Scotland, on 7th October 1963, [1] [2] although an early printed use of the word is in The Daily Mirror
2 November 1963 [3] in a news story about the previous day's Beatles concert in Cheltenham. Many fans across the world were known to have Beatlemania
, which became common in the United States after The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show
in 1964. 'Beatlemania' was characterised by intense levels of hysteria demonstrated by fans both at the actual concerts played by the band and during the band's arrivals and travels to and from locations.
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Similar coinage
The term later became the name of various tribute groups dedicated to singing the songs of The Beatles, many with impersonators of the group.
The term has had a number of derivatives, usually short-lived, to describe a similar phenomenon toward other bands - such as "Rollermania" to describe frenzy across Latin America for another boy band, Menudo, and "Spicemania" in the 1990s [4] [5] for the Spice Girls.
Also, Howard Finkel used the name to create the famous WWE pay-per-view, WrestleMania.
See also
- Beatlemania in the UK
- The Beatles in America
References
- Mainds, Kathryn. Beatlemania was born in Dundee, ''The Sunday Post'', January 26 2003. Accessed May 25 2007
- Radio interview, ''Radio Tay AM''. Accessed May 26 2007
- online text searchable archive of The Daily Mirror{{Dead link|date=October 2008}}
- Spice Mania
- Spice Mania in the 90's
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