The History of Rock and Roll: Jess Doll After watching clips of
the Beatles first arrival to the United States, I now realize
what one observer from Steven Spark's "The British Are Coming"
experienced when he/she said, "I've never heard a sound so
painful to the ear, loud and shrill. It was like standing next
to a jet engine. It physically hurt," (referring to the
screeches of anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 females). The
supposed "good and pure" teenage girls of the 1960s greeted the
Beatles with open arm...and mouths. There seems to be multiple
causes of "Beatlemania". First, roles of women were changing and
advertisements were portraying a more sexual woman. Secondly,
the woman's liberation movement could have inspired this craze.
Whatever the cause was, it seems to me that in the eyes of those
screaming girls, the Beatles were heartthrobs first and
musicians second. Whenever interviewed, the psychotic fan would
merely scream how much they loved so and so. In addition, the
Beatles could not even hear themsel