The Beatles - Meet the Beatles!

Most can call it from memory: the image of The Beatles disembarking from their plane on a cold February day in New York. Less visible in the old black-and-white film footage, but perhaps more important, is a young girl clutching a copy of The Beatles' just-released second album, Meet The Beatles!, as if the world depended on it. And, to her and millions of other young people, it did. Meet The Beatles! wasn't simply an album; it gave the intangible yearnings of youth a voice and a face (actually, four voices and four faces), and it created a parallel world where escape was only a turntable away. Read More