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This article examines how the unprecedented popularity and symbolic power of the Beatles forced politicians in Britain to attend to popular music in the 1960s. Their bewildered reactions to Beatlemania illustrated politicians’ broader difficulty in comprehending permissiveness and enacting legislation to address it.
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This page is a summary of: ‘The Age of the Beatles’: Parliament and Popular Music in the 1960s, Contemporary British History, March 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2012.722346.
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