Just found this thread....and boy do I qualify as first generation!!
Born 1950..saw the Beatles on People and Places age 12...and I still remember this strange
tingle down my back, my face flushing and nearly crying all at the same time!!
I'd fallen in love with 4 men!!
Daredn't tell my Dad( who later hated them with a passion ) but it wasn't homoerotic love , just
what the rest(most) of the world experienced 12 /18 months later.
After P andP I begged , took returnable glass bottles back to the pub and got a "sub" on my
paper round money until I had 6 shillings and 8 pence, the cost of Love Me Do in 62...didn't
realise then , that it was "red label" as was Please Please Me.
God! If I'd only saved everything eg pencils/pens/keyrings. As it is I've still got a ton of
newspaper clippings and "giveaways" from the likes of Valentine , Mirabelle and
Fabulous....aaahh the memories of a 57 year old teenager!!
WK