Curated by the GRAMMY Museum and Fab Four Exhibits, Ladies and Gentlemen … The Beatles! brings us back to the early ’60s when rock and roll was re-energized—some say saved—by four lads from Liverpool. This exhibit covers the period from early 1964 through mid-1966—the years Beatlemania ran rampant in America. During this time the band affected nearly every aspect of pop culture, including fashion, art, advertising, media, and, of course, music. On display are many Beatles-related pop culture artifacts from the period, as well as correspondence, instruments, posters, photographs, interviews, and interactive displays.
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Sonic Boomers
When younger segments of the population take umbrage with the Baby Boomer generation, as is fashionable nowadays (often with a dismissive “OK, Boomer”), they’re neglecting that their opinions’ traction in the national dialogue is owed to the Boomers, who have always been the “bulge in the python,” demographically speaking. It wasn’t until the disproportionately large Boomer generation became adolescents, with unprecedented spending power, that marketing managers in every facet of popular culture began heeding the tastes and whims of teenagers. As Cher sang in the 1967 hit “The Beat Goes On,” “Teeny-bopper is our newborn king!”
Read MoreMore than 40 years on, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours proves more than secondhand news
Fleetwood Mac’s seminal album remains rock’s ultimate vinyl soap opera. With more pillow talk, twists, turns, and trysts than Luke and Laura of General Hospital fame could ever have imagined, Rumours is more a “love pentagon” than triangle. During the album’s laborious, drug-infused writing and recording, the band’s five members all were breaking up, sleeping around, sleeping with each other, not speaking to one another, and, basically, going their own way.
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