As the Beatles were out of sight (literally) for a while in the latter half of the 1960s, I remember their reemergence and it was indeed, shocking! I saw the videos of Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on American Bandstand. The Beatles had moustaches! John Lennon had glasses!
It's hard today the appreciate the gravity of this. Along with the fab four the icons of the day included Frank Sinatra, Walter Cronkite, Elvis Presley, Andy Williams, and Bob Hope. None of them altered their appearance. Eventually, the Beatles would grow their hair longer and grow and shave beards, etc. It set the stage for other famous faces to do more of the same. The band members themselves went further into their own directions, splitting up, sadly, a few years later.
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