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When we look at Beatlemania or the way teenage girls lost it over Elvis, we tend to think that mania was invented along with rock and roll.  But pop phenomenons didn’t start with pop.  Here are several historical figures who were bigger than the Beatles.

Jenny Lind


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In my last article I wrote about the facts of Edward Teach A.K.A. Blackbeard’s life.  But a man with as big a reputation as Blackbeard is bound to have a number of tall tales about him.


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