Old music: The Beatle-ettes – Only Seventeen

The Beatles spawned a legion of US copyists and chancers. Here's one that got the recipe gloriously right …While Beatlemania in Britain was confined to mooning over record sleeves and screaming until you wet yourself (mostly girls), or buying guitars and growing a moptop (mostly boys), in America things went much further. The Fabs were folded into popular culture in a way that seems incomprehensible now – an industry sprang up to churn out memorabilia, cartoons and novelty pop knock-offs. Ac...

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