Listening to My Cousins No 1 CD, something just clicked.
After listening to the No1 constantly for a few months, my friends dad had a handful of albums..Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road..Peppers..I didnt know what to expect, and was hoping it would be the same calibre...after absorbing each album..and being amazed, I got this Discography..with every album on (including compilations)...after that, Ive collected magazines and books plus DVD's...

The Beatles are..the greatest Band ever.

i got a copy of "help" for my seventh birthday, the beatles have been a part of me ever since.

I always knew about the Beatles. How can you not know about them?! But my dad was a Beatles fan and he used to sing Yellow Submarine and Lucy in the Sky to me when I was a baby.
I got into The Beatles about two years ago, when I was on Kazaa downloading some of their most famous tunes (Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, etc.) And I realized, "Wow! These guys have a lot of songs!" I downloaded a few and liked them, so I decided to ask my dad about them. Turns out he was a fan and he taught me everything he knew about them. I went out and bought the 67-70 compilation and loved it to pieces and then my dad gave me his copy of Revolver. My guitar tecaher is a BEATLEMANIAC to the extreme, and she told me about her Beatley experiences in the sixties (she actually won a contest and got to see them live... lucky duck) and that just fed my obsession. So I went on buying the albums in no particular order. Oh, might I add, I also fell in love with Macca.
So now everyone at school knows me as "That girl who loves The Beatles" and some of my classmates have taken to calling me "Lady Mairi McCartney" as a joke.

Well, I'm sure no one's interested in this, so I'm going to stop rambling now

Watching a Simpsons episode when the old people are set free by Bart and they run through the field to a cover of Can't Buy Me Love. I really liked the song and from then its just flowered.

Well, I'm 13 right now and it was at 12 I found out about the great Beatles, at the 8th of December.

As you wall know, December 8th was the day John Lennon was murdered. So, I went to the living room and my dad was watching a news report about a dedicatory to John Lennon and I noticed the videoclip of his song "Imagine" was playing. I immediately recognized the song, because once my father put it on his computer and I really liked it, having him put the song in my computer as well and I've been hearing it regularly ever since.

So, I asked my dad what the news report was about and he said it was about a dedicatrory to John Lennon, so I decided to watch it for a while.

Then, the news reporter mentioned 'ex-Beatle' when refering to John Lennon. I asked my dad what an ex-Beatle was and he said it was a term that meant John Lennon once used to be in a famous band called the Beatles. The next thing he decided to do changed my life. "Here, I'll show you a CD of them."

That CD was a PC CD-ROM where Every. Single. Song. of the Beatles was. He pointed out his personal favorite Beatles song, which was "Octopus' Garden" and I loved it. I started listening to it frequently, but after a while I decided to change songs and searched other songs that were there.

Since the songs were divided in albums, I opened the one my father said was a "greatest hits" album of the Beatles - The Red and Blue Albums.

After that, it was magic. I started looking at the rest of the songs, loved most of them and bingo - the Beatles had become my favorite band.

Quoted from Jake, posted November 12, 2004, 8:58pm at here

Watching a Simpsons episode when the old people are set free by Bart and they run through the field to a cover of Can't Buy Me Love. I really liked the song and from then its just flowered.

That's where I heard Can't Buy Me Love too!

Since infancy. Their music was always played in my home, and my mother just instilled that in me.

I was 14, when my 3 years elder cousin played the red album (1962 - 1966) to me, and I was immediately infected by the "Beatle bacillus". I remember, after recording the record on to cassette, I played that tape round and round every day. It's still today, when I play a regular Beatle album , for example Help, that I'm irritated, when the follow up song is not the one, which would follow on the red album line up. I'm shure, you know what I mean.......
From that day on, I was into Beatles, and time after time, I collected all albums. By luck, we had a good record dealer in my hometown, so that I began to collect bootlegs in the 70'ies, I'm glad, to have today, because they are rare.
I also remember, that my room in my parent's house was totally postered with Beatles photos, one day I got a life-sized poster, which I was really proud of.
Today, Idon't have posters of course, but I love the music so much, that it helps me sometimes, when I'm not in good mood, but also gives me a good feeling, when I'm in good mood. It's like an accompaniment of my life, and will be as long as I live, I'm shure of.
That's my story so far, Klaus

I knew their famous songs when I was little like yellow submarine, octopus's garden, Merry Xmas (war is over) and such but I only got really into them at the start of the year. I put one of my brothers CDs on, Abbey Road, and I got hooked immediately.

I have to add something I forgot to mention, but that's important for me. I'm a guitar player, and the only reason, when I started learning guitar was THE BEATLES, although I don't play Beatles stuff today, except we're having party with acoustic guitars.....
Klaus

I picked the bass up because of the 'Beatle-Sound'

Hey IndicaWalrus,

which bass you play, did you get a Hoefner Bass ? Il ike that bass, it's so easy to handle, I played it several times and I liked it much, although it's sound isn't that modern.
The only problem is it's semi-acoustic kind of being built, because of some feedback-problems you can get in the rehearshal room, playing with a loud band. But it works.
Klaus

PS : The Rickenbaker, Paul used since "Pepper" is a fine instrument too, did you check that out ?

Well, my first bass was a mock-Hofner, as the real article is way to expensive.
I went for image over sound, which was the wrong decision, but you learn from your mistakes.
I now have a Fender P bass, which is one bulky tank of a bass, but has a great sound.

Im gonna save up for the RickenBacker Bass*..its just such a great instrument..looks and sound!
I think Paul used the Rickenbacker on some of Revolver too, he couldn't resist its charms in the studio.

You're absolutely right, I just read in MARK LEWISON'S "THE COMPLETE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS" that Paul used the Rickenbaker bass for the first time recording PAPERBACK WRITER: