{"id":2138,"date":"2014-02-18T02:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2024-09-08T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:09:24","slug":"breaking-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2014\/02\/18\/breaking-the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve tried not to get sucked in too much to the <em>Beatles Arrive In America<\/em> nostalgia wave. Mostly because I feel like I\u2019ve read plenty about them already and it\u2019s enough for me just to spin some of their tunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/5894018\/how-the-beatles-went-viral-in-america-1964\">This piece<\/a>, though, is fantastic. In it, Billboard takes an in-depth look at the process of getting the Beatles on American radio in 1963. I don\u2019t think I realized how much work it took to get them on the cultural radar here, and then how quickly they became the biggest thing in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting to me was how it took &#8211; shocking! &#8211; violating copyright laws to finally get American radio to adopt the band. Funny how that made the music industry in 1963 and then blew it apart 40 years later.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite long, but well worth the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/5894018\/how-the-beatles-went-viral-in-america-1964\">How the Beatles Went Viral: Blunders, Technology &amp; Luck Broke the Fab Four in America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve tried not to get sucked in too much to the Beatles Arrive In America nostalgia wave. Mostly because I feel like I\u2019ve read plenty about them already and it\u2019s enough for me just to spin some of their tunes. This piece, though, is fantastic. In it, Billboard takes an in-depth look at the process of getting the Beatles on American radio in 1963. I don\u2019t think I realized how much work it took to get them on the cultural radar here, and then how quickly they became the biggest thing in the country. Most interesting to me was how it took &#8211; shocking! &#8211; violating copyright laws to finally get American radio to adopt the band. Funny how that made the music industry in 1963 and then blew it apart 40 years later. It\u2019s quite long, but well worth the time. How the Beatles Went Viral: Blunders, Technology &amp; Luck Broke the Fab Four in America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,9],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14343,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/14343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}