The Birth of Beatlemania

Ed Newman
3 min readMar 5, 2019
The Beatles arrive in America. Public domain.

When the iPod was created, Steve Jobs was asked what music he had on his iPod. Then he was asked, “If you were going to be placed on a deserted island and could have the music of only one band on your iPod, would it be the Rolling Stones or The Beatles?”

Jobs replied, “That’s easy. It would be The Beatles.” After a moment of reflection he added, “But if you asked if it would be The Beatles or Bob Dylan, that would have…

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Ed Newman

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