Sometimes You Have to Back Up to Straighten Out: Part II

For those who didn’t find the Beatles their cup of tea, living through the ‘60s must have been a painful experience. It was impossible to find a place to hide or a trap door to escape from their presence. The Beatles saturated global culture. Even in the Soviet Union, where Beatlemania was proscribed as a “capitalist disease,” Beatle music proliferated the black market. Shockwaves of pure bliss raced through the youth culture of Estonia when, on January 27, 1966, Estonian State Radio actually broadcast an unprecedented eight Beatle songs.