Nearly 55 million 45rpm records were sold in 1961, double the total of 1958, according to an article by Bob Stanley: "Snap judgements on the Sixties," Times Saturday Review.
Not surprising, given that the post war baby spikers were then entering their teens, just as the Dansette & the transistor radio ushered in an age of teenage bedroom technology.
(These baby spikers are now of course taking full advantage of the arrival of the totally free over-60s bus pass)
Nice though to have further confirmation that things did not get druggy till later on:
"Her misgivings about pop's new direction, seen from the epicentre of the Fab offices -'things were getting peculiar, druggy, a bit hairy' - probably echoed those pf the public at large. She quit the country once again in 1967” - Stanley, on Fiona Adams who took the Beatles 'jumping' photo used on Twist & Shout EP cover 1963.
The photograph shows old fashioned police control methods, as applied to Beatles fans.
