Topic: How Did YOU Discover The Beatles? (Read 189703 times)

Bobber · « **Reply #180 on:** October 24, 2006, 02:52:29 PM »

Hi Soot, welcome to DM's. I hope you'll enjoy your stay around here. Post on and feel free!

Wayne L. · « **Reply #181 on:** October 24, 2006, 09:30:15 PM »

I was just 2 weeks old when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan back in 64, since I only experienced the excitement of their appearances by reruns or video, but you brought it home for me how it was back in February of that year soot.

sgt pepper · « **Reply #182 on:** December 02, 2006, 05:36:14 PM »

my brother used to listen to beatles,pink floyd, hendirx,doors,...but he never showed me an album 'bout beatles till i was 12, when me an my sister found The Beatles 1, so we started listening to them. andi keep discovering awesome bands.
it was kinda my brother taught me about music!!

but hes not that into the beatles, he loves electronic music and some other bands.....

Now my sister loves the beatles and she is really crazy about them and my brother love pink floyd, so sometimes they start arguing bout which one is the best band!!!

so in the computer we have all the beatles albums and all the pink floyd albums!!
and is really awesome

since them i love the beatles!!
and i luv the 60's and 70's!!!!

Rita Maid · « **Reply #183 on:** January 21, 2007, 01:26:57 AM »

My mom introduced me to The Beatles when I was about six or seven. I remember listening to Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine. I didn't really like the Beatles until just a month ago.

McLennon · « **Reply #184 on:** January 21, 2007, 01:38:58 AM »

My sister listerned to the "1" album and I got into that and slowly became a fan!

nousha · « **Reply #185 on:** January 24, 2007, 10:08:01 AM »

I haven't discovered the Beatles, I grew up with their music at home - my mom and dad listen to 60s and 70s groups a lot. At the time when my father was a teenager bands like the Beatles were forbidden and they had to catch radio waves illegally to listen to Stones, Who, Hendricks etc. It was very hard to buy such a record. So when in 1980 my uncle left to live in Belgium (he literally ran away from Bulgaria) some years later my parents went to visit him and they copied on tapes ALL Beatles albums my uncle owned on vynil. So I loved several songs and one day I decided I have to listen to all the albums. I remember being very dazzled by "Revolution 9"

Then I read a book written by a Bulgarian journalist, a very complete and interesting one. Then I discovered young people go and put flowers and write lyrics on a wall in Sofia dedicated to John and the 8th of December is national holiday for all the students here and universities are closed then. In 1989 when the communist regime fell and for the first time since many years we thought we can express ourselves freely the national television used to stop its programs and play Let It Be on blue screen, supporting the democracy and the mini revolution Bulgarian students (and other people, of course) made to replace the socialist system with something we thought was democracy.
So I don't only listen to Beatles, part of my life is more that that connected to them.

raxo · « **Reply #186 on:** January 24, 2007, 01:02:43 PM »

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So I don't only listen to Beatles, part of my life is more that that connected to them.

I understand that special connection ... hope your future will be better (now that you're here)!

nousha · « **Reply #187 on:** January 24, 2007, 03:23:08 PM »

Yes, I'm sure it will

My boyfriend provoked me once by saying it was stupid to say that Beatles are my favourite band ever when I don't know exactly which song comes from which album and so on. I hate learning thing by heart (when there is plenty of reference books, album booklets, wikipedia

etc) but I got very mad at his words (he really knows so many things about his favourite - Pink Floyd :

), I got very ambitious and now I'm doing my homework listening extremely carefully to all Fab Four's albums and reading all kind of books I have at home (and I have a lot, collected over the years) to refresh my memory. Far from the idea of becoming walking Beatles encyclopedia I hope that at least I'll be able to discuss different matters with you here.

raxo · « **Reply #188 on:** January 24, 2007, 03:58:59 PM »

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Yes, I'm sure it will
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We agree!

Quote from: 552

[...] I hope that at least I'll be able to discuss different matters with you here.

I'm pretty sure you are and we all will be glad if you do it!

Kevin · « **Reply #189 on:** January 24, 2007, 04:10:51 PM »

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Yes, I'm sure it will
My boyfriend provoked me once by saying it was stupid to say that Beatles are my favourite band ever when I don't know exactly which song comes from which album and so on.

Hi Nousha. We've had people like that here in the past too, but I think those days are over now. Hope you enjoy yourself here.

Apple Scruff · « **Reply #190 on:** January 25, 2007, 10:52:04 PM »

Hey! This is my first post and I thought it would be great to start with this thread!!

I guess I was born listening to The Beatles cause my father is a huge fan, just like me!!! I'm from Argentina and as you all know my first language is Spanish!! It was quite hard for me to understand their lyrics, but one day when I was 10 something magical happened to me. I was listening to them, it was "Help" on and out of nowhere I strated writing down the lyrics as if English was my mother tonge!! I guess from that moment on I've loved them with all my heart!!! I'm 25 now and I still love them like the first time I listened to them!!!

Greetings!!!

raxo · « **Reply #191 on:** January 25, 2007, 11:01:26 PM »

Bienvenido/a a los foros, Apple Scruff ... espero que los disfrutes!

(Welcome to the forums, Apple Scruff ... hope you'll enjoy them!

)
Tambien podias haber empezado por este otro topic:
(You could have begin with this other topic too: )
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/b-conversations/m-1168975937/s-0/

Katrina · « **Reply #192 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:29:22 PM »

I heard ABOUT The Beatles ever since I was little. I knew one of them was dead, and I knew who Paul McCartney was. I also knew the song Yellow Submarine.
After I really started getting interested in music, and found a vinyl filled with beatlesongs, I asked my dad to play it dor me. Then we noticed that it was someone else performing, not The Beatles. I was totally bummed.
But then I heard Yesterday playing in a store and I thought it was just beautiful. Not very long and along came The Anthology. I watched the whole thing with my mum and was sold from the word go. I taped the series and watched it over and over again. Ever since then The Beatles has been my favouriteband. Over eleven years now.
They are my forever love.(heart2)

Kaleidoscope_Eyes · « **Reply #193 on:** February 22, 2007, 07:06:41 AM »

When we moved to NZ my mom asked this guy if he has some beatles cd's and he said he did so my mom got him to copy them for me and my sis. SO my first two cd's were Help! and AHDN. That was the time when I didnt distinguish between Paul and John, always forgot who George was but i could always tell who is ringo (by the voice). So one day there was a documentry of them on TV and in the tv mag there was a pic of them and yea... the love unfolded from then on and it is still unfolding!

Kevin · « **Reply #194 on:** February 22, 2007, 12:37:10 PM »

Hi. I'm a NZer, from Wellington. Where are you?

Kaleidoscope_Eyes · « **Reply #195 on:** February 24, 2007, 08:59:45 AM »

I also live in wellington. (hee small world)

mr kite · « **Reply #196 on:** February 24, 2007, 09:15:03 AM »

HELLO KALEIDOSCOPE EYES
I always wish i could start allover again listening to THE BEATLES they become apart of your life when i listen to a album mermories come flooding back, how old i was what i was doing at the time its great!
New zealand what a place to live ,never thought it was that beautiful untill i saw LORD OF THE RINGS

harihead · « **Reply #197 on:** February 24, 2007, 04:08:16 PM »

Hi, Kaleidoscope_Eyes! I was just in your town, passing through on my tour of NZ. It is indeed a lovely place. I "discovered" the Beatles late in life, and I'm having loads of fun researching their history and running down their various songs. Cheers!

Mustang_Ed · « **Reply #198 on:** February 25, 2007, 04:13:45 AM »

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When did you first hear of The Beatles? Was it through their films or maybe a track you heard on the radio? What makes their music so special to you? Can you remember what it was that suddenly made you think "wow"?

I first heard the Beatles' single "Please Please Me" in 1963. I was driving my dad's 1958 Buick home from a date late at night listening to radio station KYA out of San Francisco. The DJ might have been "Big Daddy" Tom Donahue. I was 18. "Please Please Me" began playing and I couldn't believe how different and exciting this song was compared to all the other pop music I listened to. I pulled into our driveway, turned off the engine, switched the key to accessory so the radio remained on, and listened to the rest of the song. It was so great! I had never heard anything like it. After their song finished, the DJ came on and started talking about a group in England called the Beatles. He thought "Please Please Me" sounded terrific but doubted we'd ever hear anything more by the Beatles again in the U.S. I thought, "wow, too bad", because I loved the song. Of course in 1964 the Beatles hit it big in the U.S. with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Please Please Me". These three singles climbed to #1, #2, and #3 on the charts in San Francisco. I remember driving along listening to the Beatles for the first time that night in 1963 vividly.

raxo · « **Reply #199 on:** February 25, 2007, 04:07:30 PM »

Welcome to the forums, Mustang_Ed ... hope you'll enjoy them!

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