Help! There is a new bug around! Highly infectious too! Infects teenagers, and like a plague it does, and causes irrevocable damage to the minds of youth.

The bug is a multiple of four. The infection creates an ailment called Beatlemania. The symptoms are frightening.

Affects male teenagers with more venom. One of the symptoms displayed by the male victim is the refusal to visit the barber salon as often as the schedule required.

Other symptoms include changes in clothing styles which included footwear then referred to as Beatle Boots.

Help! Parents were in trouble. They knew not any methods of immunizing.

No remedy was available, and nothing was in sight.

If not infected today, tomorrow is a threat. The infection sets in slowly.

The first real signals were the acceptance of a strange type of music.

The virus is transmitted via the music mediums like the radio and access to vinyl records.

The radio could be destroyed and access to records also could be denied.

However, access to the source of infection cannot be totally denied.

That's how the minds of the big uns were working.

Help! Parents of teenagers viewed the Beatles as a threat to corrupt the youth of that time.

Restrictions were imposed on teenagers everywhere, and in certain circles, I was told that when someone had a son sporting a beatles haircut, that family was scoffed at! Geez the past was not all that good!

Help! That was the title of the first Beatles' movie I saw. That was the first time I saw the four of them move.

Previously it was just pictures in the newspapers and pictures in magazines that guys in class bring along.

Now it was thrilling indeed to see John, Paul, George and Ringo in action ... on a screen of course.

Help! No thanks, I don't need any! The clean looking musical band from the city of Liverpool made a big splash all over the world with a hit single entitled "Please Please Me."

Just prior to this they had made public appearances as a band and made waves in all directions as a result of a revolutionary hair style which they pioneered. The mop top four is what they were getting called. A "bad influence" indeed!

Help! Four very bad boys! The Beatles consisted of four youth who got together in 1963 and formed a musical band.

In the later stages they adopted a new hairstyle which caught on all over the world and the most daring of the youth of that day copied.

Although this could not be done overnight, as some time was needed for the hair to grow, the youth who were impressed with the music sought to imitate the makers.

Eventually the Beatles' hairstyle was born. Many other fashion accessories followed.

One of them was the Beatle Boots. These were forbidden as the main programmers of this trend themselves were frowned upon by elders.

Parents did everything to stop their children from listening to Beatles music as they were of the opinion that this unusual excess of hair sported by males was dangerous.

There were many amusing incidents when children referred to history books and pointed out various characters who sported long hair and on occasions even referred to JESUS himself.

When you look back, the only way one is able to describe them were as four clean boys from Liverpool who made attractive music.

Attractive music indeed! From the list of Beatles tracks, I would select the track "Penny Lane" as their best. "I Feel Fine" was very close.

Then comes "The Ballad of John and Yoko" and "Get Back." Most of their tracks were excellent and very much listenable today and forever.

In the early hours of the morning the best track to listen to while seated at my desk waiting for the first rays of the sun to show up is ... guess? That's right, it's "Here Comes The Sun."

Ironically I was an ardent fan of the Rolling Stones and was campaigning against the Beatles at that time.

I was looking everywhere for evidence to show Beatles fans that the Beatles copied from the Rolling Stones. I did not find much though!

I am still a great fan of the Rolling Stones. However, this anti Beatles stand did not last at all it was only mild and temporary.

Help your ears to the music on this hub!