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... In this decade the music of "The Beatles" fueled and enhanced the fast-growing counterculture and came at a perfect time, when America needed them most. ... The country needed an emotional lift and weeks later the Beatles showed up. ... were all Beatles songs. Wilfred Mellers, a Professor of Music at the University of York wrote: "the Beatles, in common with other geniuses, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, knew the right time and place to be born. ... com)"
The Beatles were in the right place at the right time and took control of the hearts and the minds of people in a way that no one else would ever again. ... America had become attached to the Beatles, especially the youth of America who were at the same time experiencing an absence of religious conviction, unwanted fear of nuclear war, and yearning for the idealism that Kennedy stood for. The songs the Beatles wrote not only fit in with the growing counterculture, but helped ignite it somewhat. The Beatles became the shining stars of the counterculture, which was displayed in the way they acted and in their music, which also worked against the seemingly more uptight 1950s American Culture and greatly emulated the growing lust for change of the 1960s, and the desire to create a new culture retreating from the world of "adults.
Approximate Word count = 965
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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