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Santiago, Chile: Ladies and gentlemen, Los Beatles

October 2, 2019 Jim 1 Comment

We’ve been out of the country for three and a half weeks and hadn’t been aware that the fiftieth anniversary release of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album has caused a worldwide resurgence in Beatlemania.

But it’s happened even here in Argentina and Chile where it’s damn near all Beatles all the time. They’re on the radio non-stop. They’re being played in every store and every restaurant. I haven’t heard the Beatles this often since they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show back in 1964.

Forbes explains why:

As the Beatles’ Abbey Road 50th anniversary edition starts to climb the charts, new streaming statistics reveal for the first time how the band is appealing to a younger audience. The 1960s group has had 1.7 billion Spotify streams this year so far. The age-group streaming the music is not the baby boomers that fueled Beatlemania, but rather, two generations removed, including many teenagers.

As Jamie will surely attest, every time I hear a Beatles song I say, “I think this is my favorite Beatles song.” That proclamation lasts only until I hear the next one.

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  1. Wendy says

    October 7, 2019 at 7:24 am

    My idols in the 60’s

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