Beatle (1968) Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 June 3/3 ``Of the
Beatles he [sc. Maharishi Yogi] said: `..They weren't prepared
to end their beatledom for meditation.'''
bleacher (1964) Sun-Herald (Brisbane) 21 June 136/5 ``Those
empty bleachers at the Beatles' concerts on Thursday and
Friday. ''
capacity (1965) Listener 16 Sept. 416/3 ``A Hard Day's Night
is running in six cinemas... The Beatles do capacity
business.''
Carnaby St(1969) C. Booker Neophiliacs iii. 80 ``Why was it
going to be Britain that would produce the Beatles and Carnaby
Street and television satire..?''
ciggy (1968) Scottish Daily Mail 3 Jan. 6 ``What had been
`fags' became `ciggies' because The Beatles always talked of
ciggies. ''
dreamscape(1967) Guardian 27 Dec. 5/5 ``The Beatles free among
the dreamscapes whose poignancy their photography caught so
well. ''
gear (1963) Today 30 Nov. 15 (caption) ``They're gear! The
Beatles leave for London after their triumphant tour of Sweden.''
hep (1970) Cape Times 28 Oct. 1/8 ``Are you hep to what the
Beatles are saying? ''
hully gull(1969) N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) ix. 85
``Dance-crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke.
There was the Hully Gully, the Madison, [etc.].''
jerk (1969) N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) ix. 85
``Dance-crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke...
The Jerk and the Block. ''
jusqu'au b(1968) Listener 4 July 12/1 ``The rhetoric of the
klieg-lit European student leaders spouting mocking
jusqu'auboutisme like post-Marxist Beatles.''
kvetch (1965) Holiday July 98 ``The Beatles..came along in the
middle of a wave of kvetching-songs constantly stressing the
negative. ''
Liverpool (1963) Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 13 ``A show by the
Beatles, the `Liverpool sound' group, was not typical of `pop'
concerts. ''
Madison (1969) C. Booker Neophiliacs vii. 177 ``In the same
month of October [1962]..the unknown Beatles first joined the
fashionable beat of the Madison in the charts.''
maharishi (1972) Guardian 1 Nov. 10/6 ``The Beatles..turned to
the Maharishi, but he let them down.''
marijuana (1965) New Statesman 10 Dec. 916/2 ``The politician
who gave the Beatles the MBE..knows that if he suddenly cut off
about 20 million young addicts from their supply of aural
marijuana the withdrawal effects could produce unpleasant
political side-effects.''
Mersey (1963) Meet the Beatles 12/2 ``The Beatles, undoubted
monarchs of the Mersey Beat scene. ''
monkey (1969) N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) ix. 85
``Dance-crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke.
There was the Hully Gully, the Madison,..the Monkey. ''
nutty (1963) Daily Mirror 6 Nov. 2/3 ``You have to be a real
sour square not to love the nutty, noisy, happy, handsome
Beatles. ''
phallophor(1964) New Statesman 13 Mar. 398/1 ``The puppets
looked more phallophoric than the Beatles themselves. As the
taped Beatle music rose to a pitch, the jiggling became an
almost indecent enactment of sexual rhythm. ''
pony (1969) N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) ix. 85 ``Dance
crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke. There was
the Hully Gully, the Madison, the Fly, the Pony [etc.].''
pretty-boy(1973) M. Amis Rachel Papers 98 ``She was referring
to the Beatles record (late-middle period-between pretty-boy
rock and bleared occult) which had just come to an end. ''
promotion (1977) Rolling Stone 19 May 14/4 ``Bennett formerly
worked as a Beatles promotion man. ''
reggae (1973) G. Sims Hunters Point xiii. 120 ``I'm a reggae
fan. West Indian music. And early Beatles like `From Me to
You'. ''
sassy (1977) Spare Rib July 50/1, ``I learned a lot of things
from the Beatles about sassiness. I always thought they were
sassy, that was my label for them. ''
sing-along(1967) Melody Maker 1 Apr. 9 ``How can the Beatles'
best..single yet be ousted by so many sing-along melodies and
slush-ridden lyrics? ''
sitar (1966) Melody Maker 7 May 10 ``Since George Harrison
introduced the sitar on `Norwegian Wood' on the Beatles'
`Rubber Soul' album there has been an intense interest in this
Indian instrument. ''
skull (1968) T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test xv. 205
``They [sc. the Beatles] have brought this whole mass of human
beings to the point where they are..out of their skulls. ''
sloganize (1981) Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 548/1 ``The success
of `All You Need is Love'..encouraged the Beatles to try their
hand at sloganizing.''
slot (1968) Listener 4 Jan. 27/1 ``The television slotting
system..separates programmes into categories... But slotting
also creates a climate in which surprise is unwelcome...
Slotted into one of the arts programme times the Beatles' film
would hardly have raised a whisper. ''
squaddie (1970) Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 30 Oct. 25/4 ``Most
of the Beatles have been seen several times, as have Danny
Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Jacques Lebel, the CIA, of course, and drug
squaddies with joss sticks and beards. ''
yippie (1968) Listener 3 Oct. 428/2 ``One student outlines his
own theories to me. `This whole scene began with Dylan, the
Beatles, and of course pot.' Another complains that the
militants need a sense of humour and hopes the Yippies move in
with their `politics of ecstasy'. ''