note there was no screaming when the beatles played some other guy on the anthology

Quoted from Mairi

You never saw young guys screaming at, oh, I dunno- Brigitte Bardot.

Being sexually attracted to performers is definately a girl thing. BB would get the same response from guys whether she was a superstar or the lady that cleaned the toilets. Conversley, no amount of good tunes is going to make Nana Maskouri attractive.
Every guy that picks up a guitar knows the chances of himself getting laid just went through the roof. I don't know many guys whose sexual opinion of a woman would change just because she pulled out a six string.
Maybe too guys don't get "pent up" the way girls do. We have a quick release system far more efficent than your convaluted (and frankly overly labour intensive) method.

Quoted from Kevin

no amount of good tunes is going to make Nana Maskouri attractive.

What are you saying!??

Quoted from ringostarr1983

note there was no screaming when the beatles played some other guy on the anthology

That was in late 1962 before Beatlemania kicked in.

Though Pete Best said some screaming took place as early as 1960.

Still, what with the TV cameras, and possibly being a lunch time crowd with "older"  "working" girls there, maybe it wasn't a good setup for a scream fest.

I'M GUILTY! I was listening to my Anthology CDs, like usual, but on comes I Saw Her Standing There, and I started screaming! My friend was with me, and she laughed at me.

Quoted from freakchic9

I'M GUILTY! I was listening to my Anthology CDs, like usual, but on comes I Saw Her Standing There, and I started screaming! My friend was with me, and she laughed at me.

yep, there's defintly something about them!  

When watching footage I don't scream but I find myself tearing up alot.  
In a good way though!

Quoted from Kevin

The screaming was the most obvious manifestation of the hysteria the Beatles created. If you didn't have the screaming you wouldn't have had the hysteria, and no hysteria would have meant only a fraction of the attention the band attracted. They would be remembered as just another good band with good tunes, nothing more. The whole course of their history would change.
The screaming wasn't just an unfortunate consequence of Mania-era Beatles. It was The Beatles.

^^^^^I agree with you totally on that.  If it weren't for the screaming, the hysteria.......there would be no Beatles as we know them today.
As Greg Lake, from ELP told Ringo Starr when Ringo called him a couple of years ago to be in his All Star band, "I was in a successful rock group.  Ringo was in a group that changed the world!"  Enough said....

So today, the song All My Loving was on the radio, but I wasn't listening cuz I was n my piano playing All My Loving, (weird, huh?) and my daddy calls me and told me All My Loving was on. I hung up on my daddy, dropped the phone, ran to my radio, got rug burn on my feet and all through that, I was screaming my head off. Unfortunately, my radio wasn't tuning fast enough, so I missed it. But I was still screaming a lot! I find myself screaming a lot...

Quoted from Kevin

Being sexually attracted to performers is definately a girl thing. BB would get the same response from guys whether she was a superstar or the lady that cleaned the toilets. Conversley, no amount of good tunes is going to make Nana Maskouri attractive.
Every guy that picks up a guitar knows the chances of himself getting laid just went through the roof. I don't know many guys whose sexual opinion of a woman would change just because she pulled out a six string.
Maybe too guys don't get "pent up" the way girls do. We have a quick release system far more efficent than your convaluted (and frankly overly labour intensive) method.

Haha, so true. As for women being attracted to ugly rock stars, it's just biology. To make a sweeping generalisation, men like beauty and women like money and power. It all goes back to the cavemen days when men were looking for someone to breed with and women were looking for providers.

How else do you explain Iggy Pop getting groupies???

^^^^^^^^Yuck!!!!  Iggy Pop groupies??????  Gag me!!!!  I don't look for money and power in a man.  I have my OWN money and power and just want a good lookin' man to "satisfy me"............."eye candy" for the lady.....

Hey, that's why I said "sweeping generalisation". I don't seek out money or power either, but I find myself attracted to older, intelligent and/or talented men- things that definitely contribute to having money and power.

And yes, I too shudder at the thought of sex with Iggy Pop.

We all would ve been screaming! and the fact is that the noise was so overwhelming that sometimes they couldnt sing properly, at their best, cause nobody could hear anything. it was enough just to see them.

i never scream but they always fill me with wonderful happy high energy every time i listen to them!  

I really wish they didn't scream, its annoying on the videos and songs i hear. I cant imagine how it must of been for the Beatles after a while