Reply #27: I was in eighth grade, but I wasn't a fan

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I didn't hate them; I just didn't see what the fuss was about.

I was taking home ec., and the teacher let us have the radio on while we cooked or sewed. Whenever a Beatles song came on, a hush would fall over the room, and the hardcore fans would shush anyone who didn't listen to the Beatles songs in absolute reverent silence.

The Beatles came to Minneapolis a year or so later. I didn't attend their concert, which was held in the old Metropolitan Stadium, but I'm told that the audience screamed so loudly that you couldn't hear a note. There was also a big scandal when it was discovered that the lads had smuggled some local girls into their rooms.