Everybody wants to get into the act and so they did in the above photo. Taken from Nicholas Schaffner's 1977 book, The Beatles Forever, this UPI pic indicated that hostility towards the Fab Four was beginning to soften . . at least for profit's sake. As I stated earlier, many folks from a certain age bracket despised the Beatles. Here's a quote from the February 24, 1964 issue of Newsweek taken from Mr. Schaffner's book:"Visually they are a nightmare: tight, dandified Edwardian beatnik suits and great pudding-bowls of hair. Musically they are a near disaster: guitars and drums slamming out a merciless beat that does away with secondary rhythms, harmony and melody. Their lyrics (punctuated by nutty shouts of yeah, yeah, yeah!) are a catastrophe, a preposterous farrago of valentine-card romantic sentiments."
That was the first paragraph for the cover story of that issue. But, we all know how the story turned out. The Beatles changed the entire world through their music. As a child, I can remember both my grandmother and great-grandmother singing along to "Michelle" when it would play on the radio.
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