A Hard Day’s Night is a stone cold classic. It also inspired a whole slew of sloppy, all-over-the-place imitators that fail to transcend their moment… Pure 1960s insanity - so disposable that that anyone who saw one of these flicks in the theater must have wondered whether they’d imagined the whole thing…
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All of those landlocked Midwestern teens wanted to follow along - so that they could feel like they too were regulars at Dick Dale’s legendary performances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California in the summer ‘61.
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It’s the rare pop song that is so socially conservative - so normal, for lack of a better word - that space and time bend back over and it comes one of the weirdest pop songs of the 1960s.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was sunk before it even hit the beach. But hold up a minute -- What if Nixon had won? Not just the election, but the invasion? If Nixon had won the election of 1960, he may not have second guessed the Company’s game plan - he may have drowned any guilt on his conscience re: the subject of spilt blood with a glass or three of his favorite red wine.
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