Beatlemania 的詞源

1963年； 見 Beatles + mania。

In September [1963], the Beatles played the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in October they had top bill on "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the Palladium" show. Fans lined up all day on Argyll Street outside the Palladium for a glimpse of the boys, a phenomenon that was unprecedented at that time. Hundreds of extra policemen were called in to deal with the crowd, and some later estimated that as many as 2,000 girls mobbed the band as they tried to enter the theater. ... All major British newspapers headlined the story the next day, and the term "Beatlemania" was coined to describe the frenzy and hysteria that fans exhibited over the Beatles. [Jacqueline Edmondson, "John Lennon: A Biography," 2010]

1963年9月，披頭士在倫敦的皇家阿爾伯特音樂廳演出，10月份他們在“瓦爾·帕內爾的週日晚上在帕拉第姆”節目中擔任頭號嘉賓。當時，粉絲們整天在阿爾吉爾街外排隊，希望一睹樂隊成員的風采，這種現象在當時是前所未有的。數百名額外的警察被召來處理人羣，有些人後來估計，多達2,000名女孩圍攻了試圖進入劇院的樂隊成員。... 所有主要的英國報紙都在第二天以此爲頭條新聞，而“Beatlemania”這個詞就此誕生，用來描述粉絲們對披頭士表現出的狂熱和歇斯底里的症狀。[傑奎琳·埃德蒙森，《約翰·列儂傳》，2010年]