Beatlemania: a social disease with no cure

"This is without a doubt the worst pop-music-related illness in history," said Dr William Horst, director of Cedars-Sinai Hospital's Hullabaloo Ward. "It's worse than the rocking pneumonia, the boogie-woogie flu and the hippy-hippy shakes combined"

- The Onion reports as the Beatles reconquer America, April 1965