Okay, well this is my first post so be nice
My story is probably quite boring, so feel free to just skip over it..
Well, back in grade 6 I watched an old video of yellow submarine. It was not very good quality and after it had finished watching and attempted to rewind it, our video player chewed it up and it was really broken. So that was devastating. But anyway, I was shocked, amazed, dumbfounded. The songs were a billion times better then anything I had heard on commercial radio. The humour was quirky, the characters just great. I started listening to the cd of the movie, and also sgt. pepper. My dad had quite a few beatles cds, but they were the ones I listened to most.
Then it came time for high school, and I went on the first day not knowing anybody. I soon found that no one listened to the beatles, that the earliest decade any of my fellow schoolmates had heard music from was the eighties. If I talked about 'old' music (besides the beatles, I also listened to a bit of the rolling stones and Bob Dylan), everyone would look at me like I was a freak. So I stopped listening to the beatles, pretty much forgot about them, and began to listen to commercial radio, most (if not all) of which was dull and generic.
I went on like this for a few years, until one day we fixed our yellow submarine video and watched it. Once again, I was swept away by it all. I decided at that moment that I don't give a damn if people think I'm weird, as long as I an enjoying myself.
So now I am a beatles fanatic, reading all the books that have been written about them, watching all their movies, and of course listening to and loving all their songs.
I don't really listen to the radio anymore, I'm into my dads old records - the beatles, the stones, dylan, buddy holly, the kinks, the doors, Springsteen, the list is endless.
Well that's it, gosh I rambled on a bit too much. Sorry! But yeah, that's my story. I am so much happier now (in year 10) , then I was in my first year of highschool without the beatles!
