For American adolescents in the 1960s, the Beatles represented the dawn of unrestrained excitement and parental rejection—a time when screaming, long hair, loud music, risque fashion, snarky humor and drugs mocked authority and convention. But through a British lens, the Fab Four were something more—an escape from glum parents, cities slow to rebuild af…
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