On This Day: Beatlemania begins with Love Me Do

Four chaps with schoolboy haircuts and easy smiles were about to change pop culture forever.

On October 5, 1962, they released their first record: the single Love Me Do.

Within a year they were well on their way to becoming one of the best-known bands in the world at the time.

A hysteria known as Beatlemania would drive hordes of ordinarily sane fans into sobbing, screaming messes whenever the Liverpool band did so much as step out in public together.

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God forbid you made it to a concert – the screams of the crowd were so loud they often drowned out the band.

It became so bad that the band actually retired from touring in 1966, it was just impossible to play live.

They’d go on to release five more albums before finally calling it a day in 1970.

Source: thenewdaily.com.au

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