Exactly 52 years ago, on February 7, 1964, a Pan Am plane was taxiing down the runway at JFK Airport as an overwhelming crowd of teenagers cheered as the Beatles prepared to disembark. That day would start a movement that would negatively change our American culture.
Although the Beatles were conservatively dressed and had all the polished charm and wit of young British gentlemen, it later became apparent that they had a wicked agenda to fulfill. Before the Beatles came to the US, they had already topped the British charts with several melodious songs about innocent and adolescent love. Their music was a style of pop and rock that no one in the United States had ever heard before. It was so engaging that it inspired other young British musicians to record songs in the same vein.
The Beatles were on the front lines of the British invasion. Other bands and individual singers came from England to “take over” the United States with their music and fame. A generation of young people was influenced by his music. Teenagers wanted to be them. The girls would scream and pretend when their music was played.
The Beatles arrived with a strange hair style called “mop heads.” Other British bands used the same type of hair so they could become like them. Within two years, these 1960s troubadours had skipped their haircuts and grown much longer hair. Young Americans who kept their hair cropped also grew their hair long. The Beatles ditched their coats and ties and dressed however casually they wanted. Like the Beatles, fans started wearing whatever they wanted. Also, most were forming drug habits and their American fans were imitating them. What began as “Beatlemania” became the counterculture, led by the rise of American youth. The teenagers stopped looking at God. They stopped listening to their parents and moved to join the “communes”. Casual sex and drug use became the norm. Children from conservative families even became hippies.
According to the March 1966 issue of the London Evening Standardwhen asked how the Beatles lived, John Lennon told the press: “Christianity will go… It will fade and shrink. I don’t need to argue about that. I’m right and I’ll be proven right. We.” you are more popular than jesus now. I don’t know which will come first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity…”
This arrogant statement sparked a backlash against the group. Former fans burned Beatles records and other paraphernalia in the southern states, but this was only a mishap; The Beatles were still writing songs for new albums, but this time, their songs were new and strange. His songs became psychedelic, loaded with drugs, sex, violence, hidden messages, music and backwards chants, sometimes mixed with Indian music. They had even more young fans listening to their new music that didn’t resemble their innocent songs, but was instead driven by chaotic melodies.
In the second half of the 1960s, other groups imitated the Beatles. They wrote psychedelic music, which was the product of taking mind-altering drugs. The Beatles were the first to admit that they were taking drugs. His lyrics changed a lot; instead of writing songs about innocent love, they produced music about doing “what you want to do.”
Between 1966 and 1969, they produced several albums that featured all of these changes. These albums contained songs that fucked up the listener’s brain. Their covers even looked strange, especially “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band” and “The Magical Mystery Tour” and “Yellow Submarine”. The “Sergeant Pepper” album cover featured the Beatles dressed in colorful marching band costumes. Behind them are photos of famous people they liked, including Allister Crowley, a satanic cult leader. The cover of “The Magical Mystery Tour” featured the band dressed as animals. Songs produced by his contemporaries like the Rolling Stones also had a lot of album covers and psychedelic music. Also, the Stones boldly pledge their allegiance to the devil with their 1967 album “Their Satanic Majesties Request.” This album was deliberately released at the same time as the Beatles album. As for Lennon’s statement, other famous singers agreed with his anti-Christian beliefs. They even “sold their souls” for fame and fortune. “Yellow Submarine” was promoted with an image of Lennon making the devil’s “hook the horns” sign with his left hand while Paul McCartney rotates his fingers in a “666” pose. Even on the album cover, the cartoon image of its members prominently displays the figure of John Lennon raising his hand in the demonic sign of “hooking the horns”.
Many other rock/pop bands in the last five decades have adopted this “hook ’em horns” as well as the “666” signs. Some have gone deeper, promoting more symbols that represent the satanic cult. Many modern hip hop, rap stars, Hollywood actors, sports stars and politicians make the signs to show their allegiance to the devil, because they have sold their souls for worldly fame and fortune. It is believed that even John Lennon was one of the first musicians to have made a satanic pact for fame with the Beatles.
On February 9, two days after the Beatles landed in the United States, they played the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. The proverbial genie was out of the bottle and there was no going back; his evil plan to culturally and religiously take over America had begun. They became the most influential modern band in history, changing the way music was composed and played, and inspiring generations of bands and individual singers. While they were the most famous and beloved band of the 1960s, over time they influenced so many other rock/pop bands and artists that the cultural norms that existed before were scarred when many young Americans turned to drugs and left home. House. Today, the Beatles-inspired generation are more “cool, hip” parents. that they are not as strict as their parents were with them. Today’s young generation has been raised on hard-hitting heavy metal, hip-hop and rap. Worse yet, they are taking drugs with unknown side effects, which did not exist before.
I wonder what our culture would have been like if the Beatles had never made it to New York City. Would the United States be a totalitarian state? Would there have been a cold war with Russia? It is unfortunate that after they had already torn society apart and gone their separate ways in 1970, John Lennon sang about giving “peace a chance.” That peace never fully came.