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From: saki 
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Subject: Re: New info: first Beatles newspaper articles in USA/Canada
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rags wrote:
> saki  wrote in news:6cd4p5F3c6l8hU1{at}mid.individual.net:
> 
> 
>>But Canada gets the award for being most prescient of all. The earliest 
>>known North American coverage was the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, 
>>Manitoba, on 28 Sept 1963, via the Times of London:
>>
>>http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/fab/winnipegfp28sept1963.jpg
>>
>>This is a chatty article by Derek Jewell who mentions other Merseyside 
>>groups of the day and provides some analysis of the Beatles' fame. It 
>>also sounds to me (from his prose) as if he'd just seen the documentary 
>>"The Mersey Sound".
> 
> Actually, that's not a bad article, especially for one that isn't 
> piggybacking on dozens of others, like they would a few months later.

It's interesting to see articles about the Beatles pre-Beatlemania (or 
at least the coining of that term) to see how the press reacted to them 
and described fans' reactions.

There were plenty of small articles in the British tabs about the group 
in mid-to-late 1963, but this one from The Guardian was one of the 
earliest in-depth pieces, attempting to seriously explain their music 
and inspirations. It was published June 3, 1963.

Sorry for the poor image quality, I think it's from microfilm. First 
image shows a mainly out-of-focus photo of the Beatles, plus some more 
discernable Cavern fans:

http://www.sakionline.net/uploads/guardian1.jpg

The text of Stanley Reynolds' article is here:

http://www.sakionline.net/uploads/guardian2.jpg

Click the image to enlarge.

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