h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This article of Ashley shows solid work; no detail seems to be missed and its very readable, as if it's a new religion.
Well, it wás indeed in those days. Almost a sect of believers, incuding dissident movements as decribed by Ashley.
Sickening, or in the words of Lennon; "those freaks".

It shows the absurd and impotent fruits of beatlemania.
After their performance in New York, The Beatles came to their disenchanting conclusion, that the "fans" didn't come all the way for their music but "only to séé" them. The four musicians couldn't even hear their own music on stage.
And that's why one started a Rock'n Roll band...

Listen, by example, to a performance of Paul on T.V. who sings Yesterday. I can better say,watch his lips singing Yesterday, cause the dominating sound of what you hear is shouting and screaming of hysterical fans. You can almost smell the urine.


As unique and vital the music of the four from Liverpool is, so destructive the whole mania around it and I was "there", being born in 1951. Because of this, many other good musicians were pushed aside at the radio those days and to many coming musicians was hardley listenend to.

Especially Motown suffered from the mania and even Otis Redding ,who had a voice by which he seemed to like to embrace the whole world, felt pushed to sing "Eight days a week" in the hope to survive.It is a nice and vital song, but it shows how even people like him lived with their back against the wall(Is that an English expression?), because of the hysteria that possessed The West for years on end.
George Harrison complained about it as long as he lived."They gave us their yell's, but we gave our soul".


I could list here everything that I do nót have in mind, but I expect the reader to listen to the content of my words and not colour them with the monotone colour of beatlemania.


Ob-La-Di, Ob-La,Da, life goes on.


Greatings from Amsterdam, Alfredo

Otis Redding didn't sing "Eight days a week" but "A Hard Day's Night".

My English is rather poor and if also the details are incorrect...

But it's getting cold and dark at this august the 24 th 2002. Summer seems to sneek out these day's: RAIN, RAIN, RAIN..........





Greatings from Amsterdam, Alfredo