An event or moment · 1964 · First contact
Beatlesmania
A global mass hysteria, documented live, with screaming, fainting, and an industry that began pricing it within months.
The first time the world watched itself develop a parasocial disorder in real time, and the first time anybody seriously proposed monetising it. The licensing of merchandising set the template for everything since.
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