23. Beatlemania was somewhat different from Lisztomania
When the Beatles became an overnight success after many years of hard work the media named their frenzied fans around the globe as being swept up in Beatlemania. Beatlemania mainly affected preteen and teenaged girls, whose screams often drowned out the band as they played. What was different from Lisztomania is that the earlier frenzy was among mainly adult, mature women, who in an age of altogether different norms of social behavior were driven to violate them at the mere sight of Franz Liszt. The word mania itself carried far different connotations in Heine’s day than it did in the early 1960s, referring to serious mental health issues rather than to excessive fandom.