50 years ago, the critics swung on, and missed with the Beatles

I was only 5 at the time, but I remember everyone and everything seeming very dark and sad that wintertime. Until all the grownups gathered around the teevee to laugh at the goofy kids with the long hair.

 

Actually, I think the Beatles in a way indirectly benefited from the timing of the JFK assassination. The country was in a morbid funk, and was perhaps looking for, maybe indirectly, something to divert their attention from reality.

 

I wondered if I was just 'remembering' what I THOUGHT should have happened, but I went back and checked,

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather-history/

... and -- as I remembered, in my town, Nov. 22, 1963 was warm (60F) and rainy, but 2 days later it dropped into the 30s, and except for a couple brief 55F warm days, it was freezing, or colder, for the rest of the year, including a week late in December when it barely got out of the teens.

For a kindergarden kid, that seemed like the ice ages. "Life in a northern town."

 

The Beatles were different. Everything came together at the right time. I believe had outside influences not interfered, they would've lasted much longer.

 

from NYT, isn't this what they said about Nirvana 30 years later?