Do You Want to Know a Secret? is a song by The Beatles on the album Please Please Me. The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and ushering in the British Invasion of American popular music. ... Please Please Me was the title of the Beatles first international hit single (Love Me Do was successful mainly in Liverpool, their home town) and also the title of their first album. ...
If the method for a trick is unknown to the audience, then they cannot know what skills are involved; furthermore, the outcome of every trick becomes the same ("hey, how'd he/she do that?") leading to the variety of tricks becoming meaningless.
Opponents argue that exposure harms new magicians, since it is the simpler and cheaper tricks that new magicians depend on which are most likely to be exposed; it also encourages existing magicians to "bunker up" and avoid discussing methods with newcomers for fear that their works will be stolen and misrepresented.
Many of the secrets of magic came from the study of creative cheats and impostures that can still be powerful emotional persuaders when not used for entertainment purposes, but to prey upon others.
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