Sydney Bernstein

Sidney Bernstein(August 12, 1918 – August 21, 2013) was an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_producer" title="Music producer" abp="7291">music producer</a> and promoter. Bernstein changed the American music scene in the 1960s by bringing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles" abp="7292">The Beatles</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones" abp="7293">The Rolling Stones</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%27s_Hermits" title="Herman's Hermits" abp="7294">Herman's Hermits</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moody_Blues" title="The Moody Blues" abp="7295">The Moody Blues</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks" abp="7296">The Kinks</a> to America. He was the first impresario to organize rock concerts at sports stadiums.

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Sid Bernsteinsaid, "only Hitler ever duplicated [the Beatles'] power over crowdswhen the Beatles talk-about drugs, the war in Vietnam, religion-millions listen, and this is the new situation in the pop music world" (Time, Sid Bernstein, Sept. 22, 1967, p. 60).

Testifying before the House Select Committee on Crime, popular family enter-tainer Art Linkletter, who lost a child to drug abuse, referred to the Beatles as the "leading missionaries of the acid society" (Crime in America- Illicit and Dangerous Drugs, October 1969).

Media researcher Brian Key observed: "The Beatles became the super drug culture prophets of all time" (Key, Media Sexploitation, 1976, p. 136).

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Sydney Bernstein

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