How long did Beatlemania last? | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

If Beatlemania only refers to obsession with the Beatles (and each Beatle), then I think we, fans on Beatles Bible and elsewhere, still qualify as solid proof of Beatlemania in the 21st century. However, I feel that the term is more often used to specifically describe the sensational fan phenomenon which swept the world during their touring years. Although nobody can ignore the Beatles' influence on today's world, there's no longer a widespread "mania" like 50+ years ago. So, I would agree that Beatlemania ceased in 1966.

Ron Nasty said
See I would say it changed when they stepped off the stage at Candlestick Park, @The Hole Got Fixed, but it has continued.

It fascinates me how much of the more fan-girlish (for want of a better word) comments here are the same as those fans from 50+ years ago. Sometimes a little more lewd than would've been allowed all those years ago but often still as intense, and in places more-so as there is more to over than all those years ago.

I often see little difference between the more fan-girlish responses to them here and those that appeared on the letters pages in The Beatles Book Monthly 50+ years ago.

  

Oh. It me.

This might be the perfect thread for my recent mind-blowing (which remains murky in my head and full of questions).  It was triggered by watching for the first time in my life, the Candlestick Park concert -- apparently the last concert the Beatles did, in 1966.

First, it's eerie that only 2 years later (a very short time when you think of it), the Cultural Revolution would explode, and one of its epicenters would be Southern California, especially San Francisco.  Yet here are the Beatles just 2 years earlier, still wearing their stiff suits and still doing old fashioned rock (dipping their toes into a couple of Rubber Soul tunes).  How could the culture accelerate like it did so wildly and extravagantly, just 2 years later?  I can't wrap my head around it.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but after that last concert, no other pop/rock band aroused such mass screaming hysteria ever again from young girls (and boys -- we see in Candlestick footage young male teens also -- with short hair and no beards). Here they were, in San Francisco, behaving like they had back in the Beatles heyday of the early 60s.  2 years later, they'd be painting their bodies with flowers, getting high on marijuana sitting cross-legged on the floor grooving on Hendrix & Joplin etc.

And it's interesting that this seismic rupture occurred coincidentally with the Beatles deciding not to tour anymore (something I still suspect we've never been given the real full story about).

We all know the Beatles love has spanned decades but a band that has ended is different to an active, contemporary band. I’ve always thought what the hype levels would’ve been like if the Beatles remained together through the 1970s, even if just for a few years more. What does everyone else think? I get the impression that there would’ve absolutely been interest, but it would’ve dropped off a bit. Perhaps sections of the public taking them a little for granted or simply getting older and starting to have different tastes?