The Beatles distract and inspire America in the aftermath of the JFK assassination.

So, rock & roll music and The Beatles saved us in 1964 after a terrible experience. Kennedy’s assassination had many diverse effects on America that are still with us today. The anti-disestablishmentarianism grew out of the speculation that our government was lying to America. This struggle still goes on well after the 60’s and grew more oppressive in the 21st century. This struggle is still being fought.

In 1964 the new British Invasion brought in a lot of new progressive ideas. Rock & Roll, Folk music and Folk Rock, the embrace of old Blues, fronted by the UK British Blues revival, and later the generations of love, exploring the muse Americana and the older beatnik ideals started a shift in awareness. Peace and love, racial and gender equality, fashion, long hair and sexual freedom ushered in the dawn of the rock era beginning in 1964, progressing further in 1965 and then becoming mainstream in the late 60’s.

The 60’s generation began to question authority in ways that were never attempted before in the 50’s. never before was the youth so rebellious to the establishment and it was to change America forever, we still feel the repercussions of that decade today. The youth in the 60’s embraced all that was previously taboo in pre 60’s society. Back in the 50’s all these ideas were on the fringe of society but as the 60’s progressed all of that changed. It all came flooding out in waves aided partly by the ideals of the youthful artists from Great Britain.

Where you were when you first heard ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand‘. Music and love did save America after the Kennedy assassination, as well as the UK in the mid 60’s in many ways economically, commercially, philosophically and it also threw a wrench in politics and the old ways of prejudice and inequality.