Beatlemania: A moment in time never to be repeated

Maybe it's impossible for a band nowadays to have the kind of impact on culture the Beatles had, but I'd love to see a new band with the kind of talent they had. I remember listening to the 'Let it Be' album, regarded by many as their worst, and thinking that an album with Across the Universe, Two of Us, Let it Be, Get Back and The Long and Winding Road ( I could also mention Don't Let Me Down on 'Naked' ) wasn't bad going for a supposedly bad album.

I was one of those 10-year old kids laying on the living room floor, enraptured during their Ed Sullivan appearance. That experience was the driving force behind my pretty satisfying future playing rock 'n' roll. So I say 'thanks' to the Fab Four - without you, I wouldn't have been so inspired to pursue what turned out to be a truly incredible experience that created lifelong memories. Imagine.

Here is the simple reason why Beatlemania took off: there was no serious competition from American rock 'n roll musicians (the Beach Boys at the time only started to become popular, but the Beatles and the subsequent British Invasion made record companies take notice of the rock 'n roll genre again, and the Beach Boys literally rode the new wave of popularity of the genre).

Think of what happened in the late 1950's:

The airplane crash in February 1959 that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson deprived us of a new generation of rock 'n roll musicians that would have become very popular by the early 1960's. Elvis Presley was in the US Army from 1958 to 1960, depriving us of what could have been some of the most productive years of his life as a rock 'n roll star. When he left the Army, Presley was more interested in doing movies and singing in non-rock 'n roll genres (Presley recorded a lot of gospel music during the 1960's). Other rock 'n roll stars like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and so on were suffering from legal and personal troubles that turned off a lot fans. The payola scandal--especially with its ties of rock 'n roll music--really hurt the radio air play of the genre of music as radio stations cleaned up their act and fired many rock 'n roll disc jockeys involved in the scandal. Religious authorities wielded their considerable power to suppress the popularity of rock 'n roll.

As such, by the early 1960's the rock 'n roll genre was pretty much dead in the USA. It took the discovery of the Beatles by the second half of 1963 to start the large-scale revival of the format. Interestingly, a new form of popular music--the Motown sound, which blended African-American rhythm and blues with modern popular music--filled in the void, and continued to be successful even after rock 'n roll revived by 1964.

I read recently that the "Ed Sullivan" show's music director predicted the Beatles would be gone within a year. He (and quite a few others) thought this shaggy hair rock and roll stuff had no future.

I was wondering - if, and it is a big IF, Beatlemania occurred in the center of today's social media, I think not only musical revolution it would have sparked but the highest form of or types of commercialism?

We have CBS HD channel (one of Sony owned channels) showing special right now. At the beginning, there was introduction and sew Yoko Ono who looked like American lady as she had her large black lensed eye glasses on bottom side of her nose. She waved from her seat just like others,

I remember them coming to Japan but I was into The Monkees