The Beatles
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A few weeks ago I picked my 6 year old little girl Marilyn up from one of her school buddies birthday parties. Her friends parents took me to one side while she said goodbye to everyone and told me that after the usual party games, sandwiches, cake, etc that they put music on and asked each little girl for a song request to do some dancing to. After requests for Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, K-Pop Demon Hunters and the usual stuff, it was Marilyn’s turn and she asked for “I want to hold your hand” by the Beatles…
I’ve done a lot of things wrong in my life but hearing this made me think that I just might have got something right. I also couldn’t help but be a little sad too when I thought about the strange looks her friends must have given her..
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Im currently short circuiting as I don't know where to begin....
Technically we are house divided as Paul is my wifes favorite while George is mine
Needless to say we have had this picture in the living room of every apartment or house we have lived in for the last 22 years
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@GraemeE said in The Beatles:
Im currently short circuiting
ha
I knew that.Good start, though. And, of course, I'm on Georges' team too.
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@endo said in The Beatles:
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I hardly remember actually buying it let alone where.
We just loved the negative image and colors
I wanted to get the one of george in similar style but knew well enough to pick my battles
It was early on in our relationship so we had almost no money and probably shouldn't have even bought the one we did.
I seem to remember eating only Ramen noodles (cheap dry american version that cost 10 cents per pack back then) for at least a week or 2 after
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Thankfully, I think we are largely past the days where it was cool to make fun of Ringo.
In recent decades he’s finally started getting the credit he deserves as an innovative, tasteful and unwaveringly reliable drummer.
All four were brilliant in their own ways. It petty when people try to pick out a weak link.
Love this song, and video looks as fresh as last week:
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I really discovered The Beatles in 1986, when I was 13. We were taking a road trip from the Midwest to New Jersey, and I’d made a mixtape from my mom’s record collection. She had every single Beatles album.
I had one of those big boomboxes and a pair of those enormous stereo headphones from the ’70s, just jamming away in the back of our Suburban. Apparently, I was singing “Helter Skelter” at the top of my lungs without realizing it, because at one point my dad and brother both turned around and told me to shut up.
Side note: I sold most of those original Beatles albums, I think the following summer, to one of those record stores that gave you about a dollar an album. Most were pretty beat up, but I’m sure a few would be worth a pretty penny today. Not that I’d ever sell them now. That’s the kind of stupid shit you do when you’re young and don’t know any better.
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Yoko Ono... discuss.
The amount of misogyny and racism she was subjected to, blamed for the breakup of a band that had already reached its logical conclusion and was imploding on it own, I would like to say all that couldn't happen today but that hardly seems credible. She was an awesome artist in her own right, in the fluxus movement and others, history redeems her by the day.
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I always liked and still like The Beatles.
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My first exposure to the beatles was actually cassettes that my mom found me at a garage sale when I was around 8 years old.
The catch is the cassettes we're home made copies of copies with degraded sound quality.
I fell in love with the music and for several years I only ever heard these low quality versions or on fuzzy am radio.
It wasn't until several years later that someone gave me the beatles anthology and I heard what the music really sounded like.
The best way to describe that feeling is similar to when Dorothy enters oz in the movie and everything changes to color
