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At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped off the page at me. If the fellow I saw in Big Sur was Wild Bill Hickock, Brian was Prince Valiant. They both seemed to resonate from the past, one historic, the other mythical. The Stones music, though, was a lot less accessible, less “There were bells all around,” and more “My, my, my, said the Spider to the Fly Jump right ahead in my web” and “Look at that Stupid Girl.”
It was all — the music, the look, the fashion — soon to be called the British Invasion .
While The Beatles were singing: “Love, love me, do,” Peter, Paul, and Mary -along with Joan Baez – were spreading the Word according to Bob Dylan. While they paved the way with the, in retrospect, surprisingly gentle “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Dylan went on to write and sing increasingly angry and passionate songs: “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “With God on Our Side,” and “Masters of War…”
(From ETHAN RUSSELL: AN AMERICAN STORY available here.)
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