In Lecture #13 about A Hard Day's Night, Vanessa Ament and Gary Rydstrom mention that many people were not initially fans of The Beatles but were in fact afraid of them. This might have something to do with postwar conditions in London and England generally after World War II. London had been bombed, and many people in London and England were still suffering from the effects of war. They were probably very cautious about radical change because they had recently experienced radical and violent change. And economic recovery was a lot slower in England than it was in the United States. Postwar li