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Nice Country, We'll Take It: Beatlemania in America

Dave Marsh, MOJO, September 2004

40 years ago this month, the Beatles' first full tour of the States rewrote the rulebook of rock. Death threats and Dylan, music and meat-throwing: it all kicked off in a month of madness that turned America upside down and changed the Fabs forever.

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