October-November 1963: Beatlemania

While there are differing accounts as to just who coined the term and when, a November 2 article in The Daily Mirror helped trigger its widespread use. The article was headlined "BEATLEMANIA! It's happening everywhere ... even in sedate Cheltenham / The with-it bug bites so hard ..." (120 years earlier, a similarly named phenomenon -- Lisztomania -- had swept Europe.)
* 13 October 1963 -- Beatlemania begins: Sunday night at the London Palladium (from The Beatles Bible): @

* 1 November 1963 -- Live: Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham (The Beatles Bible): @

* "Beatlemania bugs Britain's bobbies" (Associated Press, October 30): @
* "Beatlemania" (Newsweek, November 18): @

* "Britons Succumb To 'Beatlemania' " (The New York Times Magazine, December 1): @

* " 'BEATLEMANIA' Is Born" (Slate, October 2013): @
* "50 Years of Beatles: Ladies and Gentlemen, Beatlemania!" (Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona, 2013): @ 

* More about Lisztomania: @ and @ 

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