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Still, that's roughly what they'd done in England, too, so how come they meant much more in America? Mostly,it was a question of scale.
In England, after all, teenage rebellion had always been something quite amiable and formalized. It starts fashions, sells records, makes fun for the people, but it doesn't change much, it causes no revolutions. Over the years, it moves things very gently along, but, come right down
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But in America, in the sixties, teen dissent has become something more than fashionable. On the whole, it's about real diseases, real social insanities, and it may end up making changes. And, because they're influential in all this, the Beatles have become more than they'II ever be here, they've gone beyond entertainment and they've turned into serious social influences, they matter.
At a less exalted level, when they first broke through, they stirred a hysterical cult for all things British, a fad that's only just dying down now.
This was simple: one look at the
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Immediately, England became the epitome of everything
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English pop had it fat in there and most everyone cleaned up - the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, the Kinks, Manfred Mann, Donovan, Dusty Springfield. And not only pop but actors, designers, hairstylists, models - Julie Christie, Mary
Quant, Vidal Sassoon, Michael Caine and, climactically, Twiggy.
Two groups, in particular, made it much bigger
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Herman's Hermits.