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 can't remember exactly what age I was when I first heard of the Beatles. I do recall sitting watching a special on them with my parents when I was nine years old. I didn't start to listen to them until I was sixteen. My Social Studies class was doing a project on how things change over time and my friend and I chose to do music. I put together a compilation tape together of songs from the 50s to the 90s. I borrowed the Beatles "1962-1966" cassette from the library and I didn't even know what one song to put on my tape because there were so many that I liked. I finally chose "A Hard Day's Night" and "Yesterday". I got 100% on the tape :) I kept the Beatles cassette from the library for a while afterwards and made my own copy of  songs I liked. Then I was obsessed.

Great story Colleen :)

I MUST remember to write on my own threads!!!! I haven't written anything about Free As A Bird/Real Love yet! Stoopid boy! :)

My dad brought me into the world of the Beatles when he bought me 1. I was a oldies fan and i knew some Beatles songs from the radio but i wasn't really into them. My dad bought me 1 because he knea i liked oldies and he liked the Beatles and He thought I would to. And What do you know I did. I was inspired by there music. It was different from the traditional oldies. so I got more and more albums to learn more about them. Know i'm a massive fan and whant to know all i can.

I first became aware of the Beatles becoming a fan listening to them on the radio in the backseat of my parent's car when I was 5 years old way back in 69 even though I didn't know their history & their classic rock albums until 76 during Paul's US tour. 

i have the beatles in my blood!! my father used to listen to it since im a baby, and i never stoped listening to them after that!!!

I was a teenager in the 80's and one thing I could not stand was the music.  It still drives me crazy when I hear it.  I have an older sister that I should be thankful for.  I went through her cassette tape collection one day and took some albums. Among them were some zeppelin and sabbath etc. The albums I found that changed my life in music was The Beatle's White Album and Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon.To this day these to bands remain and will remain my most favorites!!!

when I was 10 or 11 my father bought Anthology 2 as a gift for my mother and the rest is history...

I used to listen anthology 2 hours and hours.The song that got me hooked up first was Help! and then Yesterday.

7 yrs old and my sister had the 62' to 66' double red album. I listened, I loved, I bought.

Weird...my post never showed up from yesterday.  I'll keep it brief.

In 1964 I was 12, and then the Beatles suddenly appeared on the radio EVERYwhere, it was exciting!  And they just kept getting better, year after year.

I grew up with them.

In Liverpool???

;-)

Quoted from misterchaz, posted April 10, 2004, 5:15pm at here

In Liverpool???

;-)

I'm jelous! ??)

I first heard "Hey Jude" on my sisters box record player.  I remember watching the green apple spinning round and round.  I can't remember how many times I continued to play my sister's 45.

Quoted from George_Fan, posted April 13, 2004, 12:08am at here

A Friend thought I'd like them because he knew I liked oldies. I had heard some of there songs but wasn't really into them. So I bought the Red and Blue collections and really liked them. I really liked the songs by George and know he's my favorite artist.

What's your fav song.

My mum sent for Rubber Soul on CD cos she had got rid of all her vinyl and it just got played here and there. I was about 10 or something and it remains my favourite album!

Oh the person i should be thankful to is my fathers brother-in-law.
One summer when i was 12 i stayed with him and my fathers sister for three weeks while my parents were in Denmark.
He is the massivest Beatle fan i know (apart from me :P)
I of course had heard them before but never wondered who they were...

And he was listening to the song Strawberry Fields Forever, i asked him: What is this? And he said: The Beatles!
I went just WOOOOWWWWWW are there any other good songs made by them?
And then he showed me his collection!!

Since than, i listen to The Beatles every single day!!

How can you "discover" the Beatles??

You can discover less well known artists like Elliott Smith (and you should, dammit!), but the Beatles are everywhere, it's almost impossible to not have known them ever since your early childhood (unless you're 50+ of course).

So anyway, I've known the Beatles for as long as I can think back... But I'll tell you how I went from just liking the Beatles to becoming a real fan...

For some reason I have this thing for outtakes, demos, unreleased live tracks and stuff like that, so when I found a cheap second hand copy of "Anthology 2" somewhere I got it and then listened to it almost non-stop for at least a week. Because I didn't know half of the songs on it I of course wanted to check out then how the final versions of all these songs sounded, so I checked out the regular albums and became a fan.

i heard of them from my teacher

Wow that's a new one.

The Beatles were always there. From birth. I always knew of them and loved them. Maybe The Yellow Submarine was the first time I saw them. Who knows. They used to play it every 4th of July.  I just cannot remember a time when I didn't know about them. I used to torture my friends talking about them endlessly! Well, Paul is WAY cuter than Andy Gibb! (My friends 70's heart throb)

1995 beatles anthology, my parents forced me to tape it for them. I didn't want to cus I didn't want anything to to with that friggin "old" band. Now I love them more than My parents do!!

I first discovered them on all the news coverage on the day John got killed. I remember watching TV and thinking , when I saw footage of them, that I would like to do that. Totally changed my life forever.

It's a long story, and a lot of you don't actually READ the stories anyhoo, but please stick with me:

At first I was a casual fan.  Heck, I liked the Beach Boys way better than the Beatles.  I also did not know what they were about -- I only knew of Ticket to Ride, Hello Goodbye, Penny Line, Come Together, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Your Gonna Lose that Girl, Twist and Shout, A Hard Day's Night, and Yellow Submarine, their most popular ones or ones I just heard.  I didn't even know Mr. Postman, I Shoulda Known Better, and Eight Days a Week were sung by the Beatles!

That said, I watched a Beatles commercial advertising a CD they were selling.  I listened to a portion of Let It Be being played, and I had also heard my friend playing it on piano weeks prior.  I thought it sounded nice, so I found a recording of it and played it.  My God, it was beautiful.  I let it repeat about 10 times until I fell in love with that song and, more importantly, Macca.

Eventually, I came across that 60IF Paul is Dead site with "Undeniable Proof that Paul McCartney was really replaced by a lookalike", and got really freaked out: Could Let It Be be sung by an imposter?!?!?! Nooo! *ahem* Anyhoo, I eventually downloaded Beatles videos off KaZaa (including Let It Be), and became interested in the songs, so I found CDs of those songs and fell in love with them.  Then I had this dumb idea that all songs on Let It Be would be great ballads like the aforementioned song, so I looked for songs off that album.  The country thing took me a month to get over (I now love songs like Get Back), but I did listen to The Long and Winding Road and thought it was incredible.  I searched for PID clues in the songs and came across more and more songs, and now I am a fanatic with 2 Beatles shirts, an Abbey Road frame in my room, and a sketch of one of their photo shoots.

The Beatles rule :)

My uncle played them at a party. Loved em ever since.

I was aware of the Beatles for quite some time, but I didn't really get into them until a few years ago when my parents bought the White Album on CD, since they used to listen to it on LP all the time, but they didn't have it anymore.  Anyway, listening to that, as well as my cousin's Abbey Road CD and "1" compilation got me into them.

i bought some bubble gum cards..........

Well, my mom became a Beatles fan god knows when, but since before I was born. So I grew up with the Beatles. Since I could talk I've been singing Beatles songs, and I grew up being told that Paul McCartney was god's gift to the world (lol, my mom REALLY likes Paul)-I now disagree with that, but we wont go there! But anyway, my friend's sister from youth group went to London and got her this Beatle's purse, and my friend was talking about it and was like "I don't even like the beatles so i'll probably give it back to her" and I was like "I'll buy it off you!" I ended up getting it for free, but then I was at the library looking at movies and I ran across Help! so I rented it. That really made me become a huge Beatles fan.  ;D

I guess Beatles had been in my life years before I became interested. One day I was browsing for a CD and there is was, Beatles 1. I must have listened to it 5 times that day.  I was hooked, especially after I got a hold of Rubber Soul.

Back in 80 when i was 12 or so,john lennon was shot.I knew who the beatles were because my brothers and sister would listen to them ,so i had been exposed to them at an early age but wasn't yet listening to music.But once lennon was shot it woke me up musically and i became aware and went out and bought all the beatle albums that i could.I would come home from school and shut the door and listen to them over and over.the first album I ever bought was  67-70 with blue vinyl.

I was around 8 when I first saw "Help". It immediately made me a Beatles fan.

My oldest brother was a huge beatles fan. He was able to turn a few of us siblings on to this beatle thing.  My mother actually loves them as well-which is odd if you ever knew my mother.  So, all my life I've known quite a bit about the beatles, being that my oldest brother was my idol.  I listened to everything he had to say about them and listened to the lps continuously.  I really didn't become a "fan" until i was around 16 (the rebellious years of my youth).  The "hair band" music of that time period didn't satisfy my rebel attitude. The Poisons and Def Leppards were too fake and cookie-cutter.  The beatles were REAL.  I would get lost in "Sgt. Pepper" and "the white album".  I actually first learned about hallucinogenic drugs through the beatles.  Didn't know what LSD was until reading about the misconception of "Lucy in the Sky..."  Anyway, I could ramble on forever about the beatles.  That's my story!

I had heard bits and pieces from the band....one day, I decided to purchase Abbey Road....unfortunately, it led to an addiction that I'm sure the rest of you all suffer as well.

Strangely, I've always been familiar with 60s music from my mother, who felt the music died not long after - but still, she very, very seldom listened to the Beatles, therefore I wasn't very familiar with them neither. I knew the odd solo-McCartney singel and a few Beatles standards, but nothing big.

When I was about 9 years old we had this silly music teacher who was also a big Beatles fan - he taught us about the Paul is Dead hoax, and you can believe me when I tell you that is a great way to scare the wits out of 9 year olds! :o

Speaking of teachers, I remember fondly a teacher I had a few years down the line who cared passionately about music, Beatles included. He played us Blackbird and told us to feel and love each chord, each syllable... It quite opened my eyes to how great and influential music can really be. I'm very grateful to that teacher learning me to really recognise wonderful music.

Hi, I'm a newbie.!  So glad to find a good Beatles site!

I'm a child of the late 60's, so the Beatles were still active and recording when I was born.  I vividly remember their breakup in 1970.  Some family friends had teenagers at the time who were in love with The Beatles and had their entire rooms covered in Beatles posters and played "The White Album" all the time.

I had always known about thier music, but starngely enough, it was Beatles cartoon reruns in the late 70's when I was in junior high that really got me turned onto them.  I bought a copy of "Yesterday and Today" and haven't looked back since...

when i was eleven or twelve, but obviously on december 8th, i heard a special about them on the radio in memoriam johns dying day. and when magical mystery tour came aloud i wasn't able to close my mouth. so i decided to become a beatles fan! this is my first love, still burning!

I went to an impersenator of the Beatles and i loved the music so i went and bought cd's and listened to them over and over again. good thing i went to the impersenator concert, i probably wouldve never liked the beatles. before that i didnt like them at all.

I can't remember a specific time or thing that got me into the Beatles. I just always rememer loving them. Maybe I saw the Yellow Submarine or Help when I was little and got hooked. They used to actually play those movies on t.v. But who knows. They are so EVERYWHERE it's hard not to get exposed to them at a very early age. I know six year olds that can tell you the history of the Beatles. I think I was one of them. How I came to be that way I cannot remember! I think Paul's face had a lot to do with it though. ;)

There is an radio transmitter (is this word right? I found it in a dictionary!?) which my parents listend to since I was born. Some day they made a competion between the fans of the Beatles and the fans of the Rolling Stones. It went on some weeks. I got curious and began to enjoy the fact, that they played much music of these two bands. Of couse I noticed that I like the Beatles music best and decided to buy "No. 1" (it was new this time). How you can image: after some times I listend to this music I couldn't stop doing that. ;D
Later I realised that there were songs I loved before I became a fan - there was a cover version of "michelle", the melodie if "Hey Jude" and "Yesterday" on our keyboard and some other things like that that made me a Beatles fan before I was indeed.
Sometimes I think it was destiny that I bought this record. ;)

I was standing on the stage in Junior High School and all these girls were screaming and squealing behind me on the gym floor about "beatles," ha ha (?)  I listened to their songs and saw that first album cover.  I was hooked too.

Like many have said here, I can't remember a specific occasion that got me into the Beatles, I've liked them since my childhood. My mother was a big Beatles fan in her youth, so I guess I've inherited my interest in the band from her.

I was 8 and a friend of my sister's was playing Love Me Do.  The next week, I saw them on the tv show Entertainment Tonight and thought they were cute.  I asked my mom about them and from then on, they have been my obsession. 

i saw them on Ed when i was 4...my older cousins were having fits, i coulda cared less....the first time i really noticed beatle music was around 1968, i was 9, my friends older sister baby sat us, and we always heard rubber soul, and a stack of 45's....we " stole" these treasures and began wearing them out daily...my birthday came up and i asked for the "new" beatles album, abbey road.....then i bought them backwards, and was amazed at every album...i don't know how many times i said " wow, i didn't know they did that"....through out the 70's, i was a "beatlefreak".....collected stuff ever since

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. (blush)

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.(smile)
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:

:)

Yeah, the Rickenbacker sounded too good, but he still used the Hofner at gigs, for that iconic status.

I guess, he used the Hoefner on stage, because he was used to it's easy handling. If you ever tried singing and playing bass simultaneously, you'll understand his preference.

This is a great thread btw......

My mum used to work some nights and my dad and I would lie on a rug on the floor, listening to the turntable.  Dad only had 3 albums (A Hard Day's Night, Rubber Soul and Let It Be) but we used to play them and play them.  He used to work on a cattle station during the 60's and his Hard Day's Night album became super scratched, especially "Anytime At All".  I remember that until I bought the album myself, I'd never really heard that song properly!

Anyway, dad planted the bug in my head and it just grew from there.  Like others here I picked up a guitar because of them and although I was in the Nirvana/Peal Jam/STP era (who I also like btw), I still come back to the Beatles every so often, and they welcome me back like long lost friends.

They have a profound influence on me and even though I'm 35 now, Dad and I still sit down and listen to the albums occasionally.   8)

It's amazing that the Beatles keep getting rediscovered by every new generation. I didn't grow up with the Beatles and knew nearly nothing of them until I started reading Rolling Stone's "Best Albums of All Times" lists. Then I saw song titles that I could hum, saw images I'd seen before, and suddenly had an epiphany: "AHHH! SO THAT'S WHAT THE FUSS IS ALL ABOUT!!!" Then I went out and bought everything and found myself obsessed. I read the good and bad biographies, watched the good and bad movies, started playing guitar and learned how to play loads of their songs (but was never able to convince any band I played in to take on a Beatles' song). In college the band I was in went into a recording studio, and the engineer explained all of the now industry accepted recording techniques that originated with the Beatles (and George Martin, of course). Strangely, my parents were the right age to have been fans, but never took the plunge. They had never even heard the White Album until I played it in my bedroom as a teenager, decades after its release. My dad once came in to my room and said "Who's this playing?" I said "The Beatles" and he couldn't believe it. "When did they get so strange?" he asked. I think I was playing The White Album or Magical Mystery Tour. I barely remember the day Lennon was shot, but I remember some of our neighbors being horribly distraught. I think I was playing with Legos when it came on the news. Little did I know...

So, I found them purely by accident, but it would have happened in some way shape or form anyway. An inevitable accident, you could say. I still hear kids much younger than me talking about them - they have apparently had the same accident I had. I also have a very young cousin who painted the words to "Strawberry Fields Forever" on her bedroom wall. The Beatles are her favorite band at an age when she should be listening to Britney Spears or some other such goop. See, there is hope.

Ed Womack

http://www.getmilked.com

Nice, well said story ewomack...I discovered The Beatles when my sister was playing them in her car one day, when she 1st bought Beatles 1...and Ive only heard Here Comes The Sun and Yellow Submarine

I listened to the whole CD and suddenly I was obsessed...I couldnt stop listening to that CD..then I told my freind I never knew how good they were, then he played me Sgt Pepper at his house...and I never knew how good this band was, and THANK GOD i discovered them...or I would still be listening to Blink 182 crap

Hm. I've always, y'know, appreciated the Beatles, but now I <3 them. ^-^;;

I had a friend who was into them, and she kept showing me pictures of them and telling me to look at sites. We had this after-school rehearsal for a play, and we'd have to walk to another school -- so, out of boredom, i'd bring my CD player. She took her CDs and had me listen to whatever songs off of 1/Sgt. Pepper's/Magical Mystery Tour she liked at the time. Our little "group" would stop off at this ice cream store and hang out in between...there was this jukebox full of all kinds of oldies CDs. "Yellow Submarine" was played almost constantly. XDDD;

So, a few months later -- summer vacation. I'm sittin' in my room, bored. And songs keep popping into my head. Next CD I got -- just because those songs were grating on my nerves because I didn't know them -- was 1. At first, I was thinking -- why did I want this, anyway?

After listening to the CD a few times for a couple days, I was a hopeless addict. XD My friend kept showing me different sites and I was just...obsessing like mad. I rented Help! from the library. Fell in love with it. Got the soundtrack.

...and to save time -- the rest was history.

I remember I was watching TV and A Hard Days Night came on and I have no idea as to why I felt the need to watch it but I did and the whole time I was watching it I was so intrigued with them and It was also very entertaining. From the moment that movie finished, the obsession started and once you catch the beatles bug it never goes away. The very first song I had ever heard by the Beatles was Across the Universe, which to this day is my all time favorite Beatles song. When you listen to a beatles album for the very first time, its quite a magical night.

i would say about 25 years ago.. my mothers Brother gave me a 45 Single which was Helter skelter / got to get you into my life.. im not 100% sure if the B'side was get you into my life, maybe someone here could confirm that for me...im sure the cover was green and white.. then he gave me the Beatles Rock N Roll music album which i played to death lol.. then i finaly got my hands on the Red Album .. then i remember going to my local record shop which was called studio 4  ( im sure Apple Beatle will remember that lol ) and bought Love me Do (45 single) obviously a repress of the original as it was bought in the early 80's  ...and from then onwards ive collected numerous amount of beatle memrobillia and now i play along side Apple Beatle in a Beatle Tribute Band .. and the story continues..........

Well i was almost right lol, but had it arse about face  :P

It was December 1980. Living in Merseyside it was impossible not to be bombarded by Beatles songs on the radio during the week after the murder of John. I was smitten and discovered that my parents had a copy of Rubber soul which I played many times before starting to buy the other albums over the ensuing months.

My parents were regulars at the Cavern and many other early Beatles venues in the period 1960 to 1962 but they were a little surprised at how much I came to love the Beatles music.  I guess in common with many of their very earliest fans they considered the later music as somewhat weird!

I have been playing the albums ever since.  Highlights were the first CD issues back in the 1980's and of course the later Anthology series.  Just been listening to Let It Be - Naked.

My parents played them a lot (along with Elvis) so i got to hear them when i was young,as i have said i knew Tommy Moore and he really got me interested in them. also being from Liverpool they are all around

To tell you the truth, for a long time, I really did not liek them at all, becuase I'd seen a Paul McCartney music video and made me go "ick" but, for the longest time, my friend had been telling me how awesome they are, then I got into Zeppelin, and I was looking through my dad's old cds and took all his Zeppelin, Stones, The Who, Bob Marley, S&G, and, of course, The Beatles-- the past masters 2 album-- I loved it, but never really got into them. Then about a month later, I was going to Tennessee with some friends, and I had bought AHDN for my boyfriend for his birthday, and as I was packing, and decided to keep it for myself and get him something from Graceland ^^ lol everything worked out well and then I became obsessed with them :) and that's my life story haha,

My parents used to have a lot of Beatles LP's around my house...but I really discovered them when I was about eleven yrs old, back in 1995, and  The Anthology Series was on TV. I  was completely hooked since the first time I saw them. I dragged other people into beatlemania as well, and I'm very proud of it, thank you :)

my sophomore year of college i lived across the hall from a fanatical beatles fan by the name of angie.  one day we were talking about how crazy she is about them and she asked me had i ever really listened to them.  i told her no but i knew bits of their songs.  she told me she was going to "convert" me and said that everyday before dinner i was to come to her room to watch one tape of the beatles anthology.  at first i was bored out of my mind!!  i just didn't see it.  but the further i got into the tapes the more i saw the light!  it got to the point where i didn't duck her before dinner but i came looking for her!  at the end of a week i was taking all of her beatles cds and taping them.  i couldn't get enough of them!  and it's mushy but i am going to credit her and definitely the beatles with changing my life.  i grew up in a bad neighborhood where most kids end up pregnant or in jail.  i made it through to college but i was on autopilot.  at some point in my life i just shut off to everything.  when she exposed me to the beatles, though, i felt like a newborn baby.  so much to learn from life, so much to appreciate and those four guys who had disbanded years before i caught on to them were showing me how special the world is.  if it wasn't for my newfound appreciation for life and art and the deepness of it all, i really don't know where i would be now.  i am a lot better off than most people i know. 

Thats great^
What a story!

well my discovery was a little different.  My parents are die-hard beatles fans since before I was even born.  When I was a little girl, my parents bought me Sgt. Peppers the movie/musical, you know, the one with peter frampton and the bee-gee's.  Well I fell in love with the movie and the music and after that I was always listening to my dads albums.  I know I heard the beatles music before, but it wasn't until I fell in love with Sgt. Peppers the movie/musical as a little girl that I couldn't get enough of their music.  :)

Holly

it was the biggest change ive had before that i didnt even like music

ive just copied this from the favourite beatle thread. as im lazy.

before i even liked the beatles i saw a picture of them in a book me and my best friend got out of the library....it had a bob dylan pic next to them which was why we got it out lol. then in this beatles pic, we thought they all looked the same! the only dif one was ringo we thought, and we had a joke that he was "laurens beatle" (my bestie) we had to go to our art teacher and ger her to tell us the names of them! i learnt them and i felt so proud lol. we forgot about that soon after and then a few weeks later we had another book, for bob reasons aslo and the beatles were in it too, so i showed lauren and i named them all for her. at this time i had begun to think paul was jsut pretty damn cute it was after this that we decided we should find some of their music. i said that it was lucky ringo was her beatle, so i could have paul lol...lauren had this anthology double disc cd thing, and we listened to that one day at her house, the first song we listened to really was love me do. and we listened to that ALOT. lol. and then i had all these tapes of my fathers that hed taped off records years ago, i hd abbey road, let it be, sgt peppers, white album, and hey jude.

so its thanks to bob dylan i guess that we like the beatles:) and the only reason we like him is because i had the forrest gump sound track, which had one of his songs on it....and i used to listen to that. thats basically how i began to like music in general. before that i was listening to music i guess, but i progressed to soundtracks, like lord of the rings....and i was obsessive about those for a while. after that came what i like now!

That's funny, because I started listening to Bob Dylan because of The Beatles! (also partly because of my dad).

Ive just bought The Freewheelin by Dylan, and its surprisingly good.

I was in elementary school and my best friend started singing I Am The Walrus.  From that moment on, I have learned everything I can cram into my head about the Fab Four.  I even wrote my Comp II Term Paper on how the Beatles influenced American music.  I wrote it all from my head, then found sources to back it up (because I had to), and I got an A!

I wrote about the Beatles for my GCSE English exam paper :)

i wasn't one of the lucky ones as the betles and a love for rock and roll wasn't in my blood.

like colleen, i discovered through a project. in my elementary school (i was 11) i was in a rather gifted class, as they call it. each year, the "gifted classes" of the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade would do a presentation with reports and a show. i was picked to do the 60s and one of the things i had to include was music. boy was i lucky because through this project i learned about some great music. i borrowed the beatles album revolver from the library for the presentation and i was hooked. i mean, can you get a better album?

since the day i got the album i wanted to start a band and learned to play the bass. long live rock and roll!

Yeah, The Bass playing on Revolver :)
The Bass line on Taxman, during the 3rd Verse I think... amazing!  8)

Quoted from IndicaWalrus

The Bass line on Taxman

is almost the same as the JAM'S song START .. Bar a note ..

Quoted from Mr_Kite

is almost the same as the JAM'S song START .. Bar a note ..

Mr Weller got a lot of stick for that. He said it was unintentional, but in an earlier interview said the album was inspired by REvolver!
I would have sued his a**

The Jam song Start is a total rip, but there is differences, in that Taxman is better :)
I Play Start on the bass...a shameless rip.

lol yeah it is a rip hehe ..but its still a great track :)

Sure is! Both great songs though!!

My father Baught me one. Fell in love and know am I bigger fan then any body i know that's not on this forum.

I was born 1972. My cousin played Beatles over and over when I was still a child. I just grew up enjoying their music.....TIMELESS!  8)

I rember going to see Help! and learning the words to Yellow Submarine.
I saw them on the news when they broke up - but didn't really understand the significance.
Got into them seriously in '76 when I left home and moved in with a bunch of hippies (that was in NZ, we were a bit behind the times then)

well it all started last year (04) when me and my (now bestest)friends (dani kristi and jenna(im brittney by the way)) were having a prty 4 dani(whose name is reale danille) and we were ridin 2 the pizza place (in the car) and jen said "put on 95.7 maybe there will be a beatle song on"( o yeah b4 this jen was a huge beatle fan(having loved them since she was lil), dani was a startin beatle fan, kristi had liked them a LIL bit and i had liked and heard sum of their music) and jus that second come together came on . jenn started to jump(while sitting) and sing sayiing it was a beatle song then she started singing the song we all though the song was pretty cool(i swore i thought i heard the tune on sum kind of video game)and then (after all the prty) we went 2 drop of jen and we went inside her house and when i saw her room i fell in luv with  them and decided (then started prancing around saying this) i was a beatle fan i then went home on the internet and got lots of pics then went through all ma parents vinlys (spel?)(bbut i found no beatle ones) then their cds(found the red album) and i guess the rest(as us applescruffs say it )is just history

I discover the beatles through my older brother, his also a beatle fan....  

I think it was in 1994 and my ex-friend had all the vinyl-albums which his mother gave him and we just started listening. The first cd I bought was the IMAGINE soundtrack. Never got tired of them.... Love Žem.

i heard revolution on the radio and i just couldnt get enough of them... still can't ;D

how did i discover the beatles?they were playing this pub called the cavern and when i saw the show i was like wow.i talk too them after their set and set up a contract to be their manager.i forgot my pen so went to borrow one at the bar and when i got back i saw brian singing my boys................now i always carry a pen....

^ :D

My mother, she has and always has been a Beatle maniac, so she kinda got me into them

In Kindergarden, my girlfriend told me she was no longer marrying me, but she was going to marry George Harrison. That began my interest in The Beatles.

Watched Yellow Submarine, my first love was Eleanor Risby

I heard the Beatles when I was younger since my parents have a lot of their albums on records and we have a working record player. My earliest memory of them is on one Thanksgiving my dad played Magical Mystery Tour. I was very weirded out (I was like 7 or something) when I heard "I am the walrus."

When the news came out George Harrison died I remember my dad saying "I don't want George Harrison to die!" I asked who it was and he told me. Later that day they showed George on TV and I just stopped everything and watched which was weird for me.

A couple of days later my music teacher told us we had to present a project on a musician. They had to have been making music for more than 10-20years (can't remember exactly). Immediatly I blurted out "Paul McCartney...no John Lennon!" I have no idea where those names came from. Than I finally settled on The Beatles.

That xmas my dad bought me Abbey Road on CD and I was spellboud after I first listened to it.

I was going through my father's record collection passing up all kinds of boring looking stuff when I found a rather colourful record with an awful lot of people on it.  I read The Beatles in flowers and thought "They sure are old, but I'll give them a try".  So I went in my room, put the record on, turned out the lights as I heard the first strains of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

When the last chords of A Day In The Life died down, it was as if I had had my first fix of heroine.  I was hooked and I was on some high that music had never given me before.  To this day I still get my fixes every chance I get.

When did you first hear of The Beatles? I first heard the Beatles when I was in 4th grade.

Was it through their films or maybe a track you heard on the radio? My music teacher, Mrs. Parkinson (a very nice lady) from Elem. school, played the "Help" CD for the class, as well as Happy Christmas (War Is Over) which we sang in a choir. PARENTS CRIED!!

What makes their music so special to you? Wow, can I ever put this into words... I can relate to it for one. When listening to it, it makes me extremely happy. When I am down and I listen to the Beatles, suddenly my problems almost vanish into thin air for the time being! The Beatles make me feel so happy, it's like a natural high, then when you really are high (LOL!! WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!! anyway... ;) ) Um......... there is just so much to say but I have no idea HOW to say it....

Can you remember what it was that suddenly made you think "wow"? Happy Christmas (War is Over). It was later sang by the 8th graders in Middle School which is when I really got into John Lennon, then the Beatles. When I got into 8th grade, our choir sang this as well--upon my request.

Now, onwards to things that I'd like to say. In 2001, I was assigned to do a biography on John Lennon. I already knew who the Beatles were from Elementary School, however, it wasn't until then when I got into the Beatles completely. It wasn't just the music that I heard before hand, it was John Lennon's childhood and his life that interested me right then and there. Also, the words he spoke--how clever and witty he was. Afterwards, I got into his music, more deeply. Then I got into the Beatles that same year and I fell in total love with them. However, it was John who has had the biggest impact on me, even til this day. The other Beatles play a big role in my life as well. Each and everyone of them are extremely important to me. Without them, I wouldn't be me at all!! They are my life.

When George Harrison passed away, I was very suprised, and of course, very devestated! I then got into the rest of the Beatles' solo years and learned more about John that I possibly could, and the rest of the guys.

I WILL FOREVER MORE BE A BEATLES FAN UNTIL THE DAY I DIE!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU BEATLES
OH YES I DO
I LOVE YOU BEATLES
AND I'LL BE TRUE
WHEN YOU'RE NOT NEAR ME
I'M BLUE.
OH BEATLES... I... LOVE... YOU!!!!!!

Quoted from flux

In Kindergarden, my girlfriend told me she was no longer marrying me, but she was going to marry George Harrison. That began my interest in The Beatles.

That sounds like something I would tell my boyfriend (if I had one). I have had several in my time, but I am currently NOT interested, and not looking. I love my Johnny too much. Well, you can never love him toooooo much. LOL!! But if a relationship were ever to come my way, I will not avoid it. If it happens, it happens.

Tiff Lennon

Me mum was into their early albums and I heard a lot of those as a wee lad.  My uncle gave me a copy of Abbey Road on my 8th birthday and that was all she wrote...I was hooked.

Quoted from Mrs_JWL

That sounds like something I would tell my boyfriend (if I had one). I have had several in my time, but I am currently NOT interested, and not looking. I love my Johnny too much. Well, you can never love him toooooo much. LOL!! But if a relationship were ever to come my way, I will not avoid it. If it happens, it happens.

Tiff Lennon

aww that was sweet tiff

Thanks. I just love John so much. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Tiff Lennon

Quoted from Mrs_JWL

Thanks. I just love John so much. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Tiff Lennon

the feeling is natural  :D

Sure is. I love your little animation pic of John on your signature.

Tiff Lennon

Quoted from Mrs_JWL

Sure is. I love your little animation pic of John on your signature.

Tiff Lennon

thanks!  ;D

I remember watching the movie Yellow Submarine when I was very young and thinking to myself "Who or what are these things called Beatles?" I knew Yellow Submarine because my mom played it to me on the piano when I was a baby. I think Yesterday was in that songbook too. My dad used to play Abbey Road to me and tell me the names of the Beatles - Abbey Road is still my favourite album. I also remember being at a birthday party where we watched A Hard Day's Night - I wasn't paying too much attention but I knew that these were The Beatles - whoever they were. I must have been no older than four when all of this was happening.

A few years later when I was about fifteen, I found my mom's Blue Album and whenever I was sad I would play it. I wore the CD out so as punishment I had to buy her another one. Well, thats sort of how I discovered them. I kept playing that Blue album until I realized there was MORE MUSIC! But I didn't get into them quite yet. I was more into Spice Girls back then .... *shivers*

So, fast forward a few years and there I am sitting wide eyed and totally engrossed on the couch after just opening a big, silvery book called The Beatles Anthology, listening to a CD called 1, and staring dreamily at the face of John Lennon from a special edition magazine that my mom had been given. From that moment I think it just clicked - me and the Beatles were meant for each other. From then I got into the Anthology CDs, then into collecting and discovering each album and I was so impressed and obsessed that people kept referring to me as a Beatlemaniac. And I loved it when they called me that. I was proud.

I still am.  ;D

^ nice story,

well like most people, the beatles have been around me my whole life. on the radio, tv, parents' old vinyl around the house. just about everyone knows a decent amount of beatles music. i didn't really get into the beatles until after i really got into george's solo work. i loved some of his songs and my friend is a huge beatlemaniac, so i asked him to point me to some of george's best work. after hearing george, i had to go back to the source. and now i'm where i am now, loving the beatles forever

i might have already responded to this thread, but im far too lazy to look through all 8 pages to find out, so if i did i apologize!  :P

my parents have liked the beatles ever since they were kids (they're both 45 right now, sorry mom & dad!) so the music has always been around me. when i was young, i vaguely remember dancing around my coffee to table to the white album, more speficially obladi oblada. also, my sister's name is michelle, so they would constantly play that and i'd sing along and mess up the words. then i forgot about them for awhile, til about 4th grade. my parents had "the love you make" by peter brown, and i remember reading the last chapter, the one that describes john's death, and i was so sad. i guess this sparked my parents to listen to their music more, and they'd play pastmasters volume 2 alot. i forgot about them again until about june of last year, when my sister started playing beatles one cuz her friend liked them. at first i got annoyed with how much she would play them, and i tried to deny liking them, but it was just inevitable...they're awesome, and one of the best, most talented bands ever. i love them so much  ;D

i just remembered something else! pastmasters volume 2 must have been played alot when we 1st moved into the house im in now, i was in 2nd grade, because "lady madonna", "you know my name (look up the number" and most of the rest of that CD reminds me sooooo much of when i 1st moved here! ;)

My father introduced this music to me. He was always playing some oldies when I was little and I grew to love it. I am proud of myself, being one of the few 14 year olds in my school to enjoy real, good muisc.  ;D

Feb 8 1964 Ed Sullivan

It's like taking acid, I've not been the same since.

My mum and dad were big Beatles fans, and I was born in 64 so grew up listening to them, they are simply the best.

Welcome Fabmark!! ;)

hello an apple, this looks like a friendly place to discuss all things beatles, look forward to getting to know you all

XD I was pro'lly meant to be a Beatles fan. I have some notebooks from elementary school where I spell 'beetles' as 'beatles'.

Awww that's cute!

I always vaguely knew who the Beatles were, but was never very interested in their music until I was 11 or so and my art teacher showed us Yellow Submarine in our art class.  Then I thought they were okay until 1 came out and I bought it. From then on, I thought they were really cool, and then someone bought me Help! for my birthday. I heard I've Just Seen A Face... fan for life. :)

Quoted from The_End

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 must have seen them performing one of their singles on Top Of The Pops, the BBC's long-running chart single programme, back in the '60s. My older brother was a teenager at the time, and was a fan.

Hi! I'm a newbie to the forum, so hello everyone!

I got into the Beatles at a v young age, my dad was nuts on them and so listened to them all the time when I grew up. When he left I made him leave all his Beatles records, and then started buying cd's when they became available!

Amanda

Hello Amanda! Nice to see you here, too :D

I was two when I remember throwing one of my toys down the stairs during a temper tantrum. . .  and that toy was my Sgt Pepper's record.  My parents got me into the Beatles with that record and my life has been Beatlefied since then!
At 5 I got the Beatles 20 greatest hits, at 11 my godfather gave me about 8 of his Beatle records, and since then, I've been a big fan.

hi djapp, and welcome to dm's.

I am 59.  I first heard of The Beatles in the summer of 1963 when From Me To You was played on the radio.  Del Shannon had out a version of the song and for awhile, I liked his better.  I soon changed my mind.  Read my Beatles article.  http://jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=61

A little man appeared before me floating on a bowl of Rice Krispies and said, "Beatles young man, Beatles!"  Thereafter my life was changed.

Actually my sister and I would watch the Beatle cartoons in our basement together.  Then I saw "A Hard Day's Night," and when I was in the third grade my parents finally caved in and bought me "SPLHCB" lp and life hasn't been the same since.

When I listened Strawberry Fields Forever, I was hooked at the verse which was all quiet with some loops and trumpets in the background. It's cool. I loved the whole song though.

Then I listened to the blue album with my brother, and he could sing all the songs. It was very enjoyable. Then I got Abbey Road ... "the rest is history".

I listened to a lot of oldies when I was younger and the songs by The Beatles always got me excited. It's only now since they stopped playing a lot of their music on the radios that I'm investing money in their albums. I've always love their music though :)

I did it the easy way. Me and my family were sitting in front of a box with moving B&W pictures on it. And a funny looking stiff-jointed guy who kept making me think this was a show about big feet 'cause he kept saying "really big shoe" came out and introduced these 4 guys with girl's hair as the Beatles. I thought they were pretty sissy looking, shaking their heads and everything. All the girls in the audience must not have liked them very much 'cause they were all crying and screaming. The only one I liked was the big-nosed guy pounding the drums. I thought that was a good job! Make girls scream and cry and beat things and I wouldn't have to get a haircut! That's for me! Been hooked since. ;D

A few years ago I had a boyfriend for a couple of weeks. He was really a beatlesfan. Of course I had heard of the Beatles, but didn't know exactly what music they made. I knew Help, Yesterday and Let It Be of course, heard that on the radio. But one night we sat down together next to the cd-player and he let me hear a lot of different things that I had never heard before. I remember hearing Revolution 9, but turned it down after a minute and asked for another song. I was interested in the music from the Beatles, it really did something to me and I started to buy cd's. One by one I got them all. I listened to many different things before and do now, but the beatles are really great. My friends don't understand it, but that doens't matter. If I could only get a chance to make them listen to it!

Well my stepdad is a BIG collector and a HUGE fan and he introduced to some bands the most I took interested of is Queen and The Beatles. And ever since Lucy in the Sky I had been taking my stepdad's cds and check them out and eventually later I became a Beatle fan after White Album and Sgt.Pepper and I keep exploring the Beatles more and more.

I have really enjoyed listening to everybody's stories. It seems that they have all been touched in a different way, whether it be from a song, a vision of the Beatles, or something else. It just goes to show, doesnt it?

When did I first hear the Beatles? Well, I first heard them when I was in elementary school because my music teacher showed us the Beatles Yellow Submarine movie. But after a year I forgot who the Beatles were, but I heard the Beatles Yellow Submarine song on the radio again when I was in Middle School and I asked my mom who wrote that song and she said the Beatles did. I really liked the Yellow Submarine song and that's when I became a Beatles fan after hearing that song for a second time. :)

I don't think you can really 'discover' the Beatles. They're just sort of always there. I mean, it's not like you stumble upon them and go, hey I just heard a song by some really cool band, I wonder what else they've done. It's just a matter of how into them you get. Avoiding them is a lot harder than finding out about them. They're everywhere in some form or another.

My friend's dad is a huge fan of The Beatles, and me and my friends would always poke fun at him because we thought they were totally lame. Well, until I actually heard some of their songs, then I got hooked on them. Most of my friends don't know that I like them, because I'm afraid of being ridiculed by them if they find out.

You might want to read that thread, "are you ashamed to be a Beatles fan?".

my dad has been playing beatle songs for me since i was brought home from the hospital. lol. ive been a beatle fan for basically my whole life.
<3

my best friends brother was a beatles fan.
he gave me a tape when i was 12 and while i was cleaning my room it made

WOW!

the song was ANNA

i was in love with lennon and stayed that way for 5 years.
:) good times.

i am 35 now and very chuffed i did not waste my time with eighties music...(except soft cell. they rock)

Quoted from Public_Pervert

Well I'm not really ashamed. It's just that my friends haven't heard them and think they suck or something, and I'm just afraid that they'd tease me or something because I like them.

Then simply tell them to give 'em a lsiten.

I remember, when I was about 5 years old, my aunt used to sing 'Obladi Oblada' to me, and I loved it. I always knew about The Beatles, but wasn't really interested. They were not together anymore, and I was too busy listening to contemporary music. Then one day I got a 'Greatest Hits' album from 'Sinterklaas' (which is a friendly bishop that only visits Dutch and Belgian children in december to give them presents because they are the nicest children in the world). It was on a sunday, and the whole day I played that record again and again and again. I was completely overwhelmed by it.

The next day I went to school and told my friend about my new obsession. "You know The Beatles?" I asked her. "Yeah, I do",  she replied, "one of them is dead." Stupid girl, she did NOT know them, like she never knew any of the actors or popgroups I liked. "No," I said in a patient tone, "they're not dead. They're alive." "No", she insisted, "one of them is dead." "Yeah, right, since when?" I asked irritated. "It happened yesterday, he has been killed." She didn't know which Beatle it was, but of course soon I found out that it was John Lennon. So I will never forget when exactly I fell in love with The Beatles. It was on the day John Lennon died.

^ Wow. You couldn't make that sh*t up. Good story.

I watched Anthology and that got me into them...

I think its just a matter of time before people discover the beatles for themselves and they love it.

Quoted from Starry_Night

I remember, when I was about 5 years old, my aunt used to sing 'Obladi Oblada' to me, and I loved it. I always knew about The Beatles, but wasn't really interested. They were not together anymore, and I was too busy listening to contemporary music. Then one day I got a 'Greatest Hits' album from 'Sinterklaas' (which is a friendly bishop that only visits Dutch and Belgian children in december to give them presents because they are the nicest children in the world). It was on a sunday, and the whole day I played that record again and again and again. I was completely overwhelmed by it.

The next day I went to school and told my friend about my new obsession. "You know The Beatles?" I asked her. "Yeah, I do",  she replied, "one of them is dead." Stupid girl, she did NOT know them, like she never knew any of the actors or popgroups I liked. "No," I said in a patient tone, "they're not dead. They're alive." "No", she insisted, "one of them is dead." "Yeah, right, since when?" I asked irritated. "It happened yesterday, he has been killed." She didn't know which Beatle it was, but of course soon I found out that it was John Lennon. So I will never forget when exactly I fell in love with The Beatles. It was on the day John Lennon died.

Here's something:

Recently I went to a Beatle tribute show, (free) and they told us a story.

They said that back then they would be playing in a club and they were about to play We Can Work It Out (i think, i might be wrong). They started playing, and then the club owner ran on the stage and he grabbed the necks of their guitars (to mute them), and he said to the audience:
"John Lennon is dead." The band got pissed and cussed him out and said it had to be a joke, and the owner told them to follow them into the back room. They went into the back room, and they watched the news of John's death on the TV.
Then the band went back on stage and told the audience:
"It's true, he just got shot and killed...we are now going to play this song in his memory." So they played We Can Work It Out.

So they then played the song for us at the concert.

^Wow, that's some heavy stuff.

I became a fan shortly after the Anthology project came out in 1995. At that time I was 10.  

I'm a fan of the Beatles because of my father. He was born in England in thre 50's, so of course he was a huge fan of The Fab Four. He got me, and my three brothers into the Beatles.

Well ever since I remember whenever I would go over to my Dads house he would play The Beatles, And then more and more I would MAKE him play The Beatles. He usually played Abbey Road and The White Album. Songs like Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Bungalo Bill got me hooked (being about 8-9 years old those songs stood out as silly fun songs) I really only listened to those 2 cds at my dads. Then when I was about 14 I got my mom to buy me a bunch of their CD's and I have been hooked since then. I would listen to one of their CD's everynight before I went to sleep. I still at 18 will listen to at least one Beatles Album each day.  ;D

Something else that is interesting to me is I always have a Beatles song stuck in my head. For any situation in the day I have one of their songs in my head. For instance if someone is driving horribly I call them a Sunday Driver and Day tripper gets stuck in my head. The other day my friends girlfriend said "Hold my hand" And.. well you know what song got stuck in my head.  ;D

I was into a band in the UK called Oasis (still am!) and when their 3rd album came out there was such a hype that some people were comparing it to this album call Sgt Pepper ( i was 14 at the time i think ) and I once innocently enough asked my dad about this old album and he just put it on for me on the headphones (and whats this colourfull carboard cover thingy... and thats a big CD!) as soon as i heard the opening bars i was hooked good and proper. Literally as soon as Pauls vocal came in I was hooked, the harmonies, beat, style, groove and then the way it 'melts' into With a Little Help from my Friends (I also thought hey I KNOW this song from somewhere!) then I was buzzed out by Lucy in the Sky... and so on.  It as like I was at home and I got SO excited by the album I asked all my mates if theyd heard it (Of course they hadnt and thought I was weird...)

I then went back through all the plastic in my dads collection and had pretty much the same reaction to all the albums and that lead me to the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks (I remember playing You Really got Me on repeat for literally hours on end!), beach boys etc... I then thought wow where did all this great music come from? So I read up then went back into Rock and Roll and then the Blues and then forward to Motown and Soul music and R n B etc...
I still listen to Oasis by the way! Cheers Noel and Liam!

Well, my parents used to be, and still are, huge fans of them, especially my dad, so I grew up listening to their music. But I wasn't such a huge fan. Then, two friends of mine, decided to turn me into a fan... And they did! So here I am. A huge fan of The Beatles and completely obsessed with them. I even have the Yellow Submarine tattooed on my right shoulder (back side)!

Well, I didn't, really. Brian did, y'know. :-/
As usual, I was late. ;D

I grew up listening to lots of oldies. They never really said the names of the groups, though. My favorites were always the beatles. I'd wait for "can't buy me love" to come on the radio. :)
For christmas when I was 6 or 7 (I can't remember) my parents bought me With the beatles. It was my first cd. :)
About a year ago, I rediscovered them after becoming increasingly frustrated with music out today (minus a few).
I now own all of the cds and they are my favorite band. :)

Quoted from Heart

... I rediscovered them after becoming increasingly frustrated with music out today (minus a few)....

It's the case of lots of people. Embarrassing era, this one.  :B  8)

I first heard of The Beatles in the summer of 1963 when "From Me To You" was on the radio.  I thought they were black.  Del Shannon had out a cover version of "From Me To You," and radio was playing his record as much as it was playing The Beatles.  Del was the first American to cover a Beatles song.  I was 17 that summer and deep in my first romance.  That was about to end.

JIM COLYER  http://www.jimcolyer.com/bio  

I sell on eBay, so at a library sale I bought video copies of "Help!" & "First US Visit" to sell.
I ended up watching Help, then watching First Visit (loved there humor more than anything) and then found the 4 Ed Sullivan shows on DVD....hooked from then on.  First album was "Meet the Beatles" on LP.
Currently listening to the Anthology CDs, they are so great, esp. the demos & different takes.

One of my mates took me to a tribute band of the beatles called the beatels they were playing in Newtown (suburb of Sydney) Since then I have been a massive fan!

everyone in my family liked them so i was brought up to like them

I was in the car with my family and my dad put a copy of '1' on. Up to that point I thought The Beatles was sad oldies music and I daren't ever have looked them up if I hadn't have heard them that day... or something like that.

Anyway it played through and I liked what I heard, but when I heard 'Let it Be' (the song) I couldn't turn it off. I think I played that song constantly for weeks. I still occasionally put it on and press the repeat button.

It amazes me when people say they didn't know any Beatles songs until they were in their teens or something. How can you go through life and NOT know a Beatles song? How can you reach age 10 and not know at least a dozen?? You'd have to be literally sheltered or something.

I did recognise a fair few like I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Yellow Submarine, Ticket to Ride, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Come Together... those I think are the songs I recognised. Although I recognised them it doesn't mean I knew them. I recognise some TV show themes but I don't know them. I consider to know something as to know something, and recognition is knowing of something... or something.

I love it when you're listening to a band you just discovered, and you suddenly think 'Wow, didn't know these did this!'.

on my school holidays easter 1979. AHDN was on the telly, my mum was relieved of her two double albums (the red and the blue ones) and that was that. Hooked!

I knew about them in the summer of 1963.  I was 17, and "From Me To You" was on the radio.  Del Shannon had the song on radio, too, as he was the first American to cover a Beatles tune.  Del was my favorite singer before The Beatles.

I was in Tower Records here in Nashville today.  They were playing The Beatles, songs from 1965-66 like "The Word" & "Michelle."  It was refreshing.  I lingered.

*waves* Noob alert.

I was born in '76 - deaf, unfortunately.  But after numerous surgeries, I was able to hear by '79.  My father had built his own reel-to-reel machine and on it he played one of three albums - "Sgt. Pepper", "Abbey Road", or "Magical Mystery Tour."  Always.  I grew up listening to the Beatles and one of my best (and by far happiest) memories is of standing on my father's feet, when I was no older than four or five, dancing to "When I'm 64."  He used to sing that to me.  But he'd change the lyrics around to "will you still need me, will you still feed me when YOU'RE sixty-four?"  Sadly my Dad passed away in '02 and it was a devestating loss.  I plan on getting a tattoo both to commemerate my love for him and our shared love of the Beatles.  For almost four years I have wondered what to get.  I thought about getting "But life flows on within you and without you" but then it hit me.  I plan on getting "Let It Be."  Because that's what he'd say to me if he could.  He's gone.  It hurts.  But find a way to come to peace with it.  "And though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see - there will be an answer . . . let it be."

I became a die hard fan by the time I was seven and twenty-two years on that love is still going strong!

Kelly

great day........i am glad that your hearing was restored and i am sorry for your loss...keep your chin help high..you are among friends here....we hope your stay is a lengthy one.....

Nice one Kelly...Much love to you. x

That was a really moving story Kelly - Thanks for sharing.

A VERY warm welcome to the board! :)

AL (flower)

I know the majority of you here, more than likely, discovered the Beatles from the Anthology series or the greatest hits compilation 1, not too long ago.  I'm not knocking it if you became a fan that way, but you have to admit, you're a rarity among your generation, who dig the Beatles these days.  I first became aware of them listening to the radio, in the backseat of my parent's car, when I was about 5 way back in 69.   I didn't know their history or their classic rock albums, or their current ones at the time,  until I was about 11/12 back in 75/76. I do have to say as solo artists, you have to take the good with the bad, with only a few masterpieces.  I was jokingly bullied on this site for some reason by punks, but I'm not going to worry about it, since they're probably just posers to begin with & have no life.  

we think the same of you.......we take what you say and discount everything....if you post long enough tho your true being will show itself again...i see it already has basically...

I don't care if you discount everything I say pic31, because you're not a real Beatles fan anyway.  

actually wayne there was beatles music playing in my house b4 either you or i was born and i was borned in 1962...which makes me a couple of year your elder.....beatle music was part of my early youth and i was aware at an early age that i enjoy their music...i was given beatle things at a young age and was aware of them b4 they split up and collected each new solo release...which makes me a truer fan...not to mention the fact i have been a fan longer than you and perhaps it is more deeply rooted in me and my youth where as you are an inbred freaking moron...with no real skills who still lives at home and gets tucked in by mommy....if you are such a big bad beatles fan then prove it and write topic more than two sentences long that makes a point....stop babbling about long legs and pissing people offf like a moron...because it appears that your head is so far up your own a** that you can't see the light...

It's kinda funny I actually discovered them through The Monkees, I've always been a Monkees fan and I saw that picture of Micky Dolenz with Paul McCartney from the 60's and well I became a fan :)

I was 8 years old when i first saw the Beatles on the Ed Sulivan show. My 2 sisters and parents watched together and after the show was over the beatles became a day to day music party for many years. my older sister had the beatle boots and the hat like John wore. I remember she gave the hat to me when she got tired of it. I only wish that i still had the hat. it was blue and I always loved the snap on the top. any way i just found this site the other day and so i wanted to post a reply. I'am Soot. hello  every one..........................

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

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.  

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

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

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.

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

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"  ;D
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.

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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)! ;D

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.

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Yes, I'm sure it will  ;)
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We agree! ;)

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[...] 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! :)

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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.

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!!!

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/

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)

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!

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

I also live in wellington. (hee small world)

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   ;D

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!

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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.  

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

Great memory, Mustang_Ed! Welcome aboard.

Wow! All of your stories are great!

I was 4 years old. My dad had taken my sister and me to Best Buy I believe so that we could buy our Mom a Christmas present. Of course I wouldn't know what to get my mom besides something I could make myself in pre-school or at home. Dad picked out a CD with vivid colors reds, greens, and it had many people on the front of it and 4 men standing behind a drum in bright clothing he told me something like, "Here Hilly, I bet your mom would like this!" So on that Christmas my mom received 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and 'Yellow Submarine' (the latter from my sister). A few months later mom was listening to Sgt. and I heard "When I'm 64" and I asked her if she would play it again. I guess you could say that's how I discovered Beatle music. Thanks, Mom & Dad!

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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.

Yeah, we should both be grateful to Mom for asking that guy to copy Help! and AHDN for us  :)

The first time we actually listened to these CDs was on one of our family trips during the summer holidays a years ago. We were in the car and my Mom put A Hard Days Night on. I remember finding the songs really charming and sweet, especially when John went " 'cause I've been in love before, and I found that love was more than just holding hands", etc. Then we listened to Help! and I liked almost every single song on it! However, it wasn't until the summer holidays a few months ago when my sister and I found The Beatles on YouTube that I really began to be actively interested in them. I think I really started loving them after seeign clips from the Help! movie. I listened to more songs, then we bought the movies Help! and AHDN, last weekend we got the Yellow Submarine movie, and everybody knows that Abbey Road is on my current Birthday Wishlist  ;D

So that's how I "discovered" the Beatles, and I'm really glad I did!  :) I've still probably got lots more to discover about them, and i'm looking forewards to that  :)

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So that's how I "discovered" the Beatles, and I'm really glad I did!  :) I've still probably got lots more to discover about them, and i'm looking forewards to that  :)

And I envy you because of that  ;) ... you'll enjoy the journey, for sure! 8)

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The first time we actually listened to these CDs was on one of our family trips during the summer holidays a years ago. We were in the car and my Mom put A Hard Days Night on. I remember finding the songs really charming and sweet, especially when John went " 'cause I've been in love before, and I found that love was more than just holding hands", etc. Then we listened to Help! and I liked almost every single song on it!

... and everybody knows that Abbey Road is on my current Birthday Wishlist  ;D

Yeah, I remember we couldn't tell the difference between John and Paul's voice and we always forgot George but what we did always know was that Act Naturally was Ringo.

About the wishlist Octie... thanks for the hint. Very subtle I must say. :P

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I remember we couldn't tell the difference between John and Paul's voice and we always forgot George

Aw, poor George! *hugs him*

Great memory, Octie! I also heard the Beatles for the first time in the car. Although I pretended I didn't like them (trying to be different from my older sister), I never forgot the memory, so it must have been powerful!

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Then we listened to Help! and I liked almost every single song on it!

Isn't that great? I just love these guys. Welcome to the forums, Octie!  8)