The Beatles and Reality

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STORYCONTEXT: Author’s Note: Replying to childhood friend Jim Carroll about his boyhood discovery of The Beatles

And I was there with you! There was music before the Beatles that made me happy, but suddenly I was hearing music that made me excited. And made me feel included in where the culture was heading. The music of the Beatles caused a lot of other music to seem corny and phony. Those were heady days for young people. The Beatles seemed to be affecting everything: music, hairstyles, fashion. Even some of the “old” people started