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Inglis, Ian. "'The Beatles are coming!' Conjecture and conviction in the myth of Kennedy, America, and the Beatles." Popular music and society 24.2 (2000): 93. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article is quotes many sources on the arrival of the Beatles to America in 1964, a year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The article suggests that the Beatles were a "breath of fresh air" to help move the country out of their state of mourning. The article also talks about the factors that contributed to the groups' success in the 1960s. The band's music appealed to a wide variety of people. Their songs blended together rock and roll, pop, soul, and blues music. The structure of the sound was very different than American pop during that time period. There was not just a lead singer with a background band; all of the Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison contributed to each chart-topping single.