I was a sixth grader living in Detroit when the British music invasion began. There was a lot of great rock on Detroit radio (entirely AM) at the time along with a fair amount of blues late at night.
In our school there was a huge amount of buzz about the Beatles before anyone had heard them. There were plenty of cynical kids who didn't buy the hype. But once we heard them and later watched them on the Ed Sullivan show there was near consensus among my peers that they were terrific.
For me it was the first time that I felt something truly changed everything. In time I came to become a bigger fan of the Rolling Stones because of the blues influence. But no one at the time was the least bit critical in the least about the Beatles. In time their new albums were eagerly anticipated. I still look at music as before the Beatles and after the Beatles.
In our school there was a huge amount of buzz about the Beatles before anyone had heard them. There were plenty of cynical kids who didn't buy the hype. But once we heard them and later watched them on the Ed Sullivan show there was near consensus among my peers that they were terrific.
For me it was the first time that I felt something truly changed everything. In time I came to become a bigger fan of the Rolling Stones because of the blues influence. But no one at the time was the least bit critical in the least about the Beatles. In time their new albums were eagerly anticipated. I still look at music as before the Beatles and after the Beatles.