How Did YOU Discover The Beatles?

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Kaleidoscope_Eyes

#195
Feb 24, 2007, 02:59 AM
I also live in wellington. (hee small world)

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mr kite

#196
Feb 24, 2007, 03:15 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   ;D
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harihead

#197
Feb 24, 2007, 10:08 AM
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!
All you've got to do is choose love.  That's how I live it now.  I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden.  I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

Mustang_Ed

#198
Feb 24, 2007, 10:13 PM
Quote from: 360When 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

#199
Feb 25, 2007, 10:07 AM
Welcome to the forums, Mustang_Ed ... hope you'll enjoy them! :)

harihead

#200
Feb 25, 2007, 12:17 PM
Great memory, Mustang_Ed! Welcome aboard.
All you've got to do is choose love.  That's how I live it now.  I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden.  I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

Seashell Eyes

#201
Mar 02, 2007, 08:05 PM
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'

Octie

#202
Mar 13, 2007, 05:23 PM
Quote from: 596When 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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raxo

#203
Mar 13, 2007, 05:55 PM
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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)

Kaleidoscope_Eyes

#204
Mar 13, 2007, 06:53 PM
Quote from: 610


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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harihead

#205
Mar 13, 2007, 10:51 PM
Quote from: 596I 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!

Quote from: OctieThen 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)
All you've got to do is choose love.  That's how I live it now.  I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden.  I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

Revolution

#206
Mar 13, 2007, 11:42 PM
Nice memories!!! I remember watching Beatles concerts on the wall  from my brother's projector . I was Very little.  ;)

#207
Mar 17, 2007, 07:13 AM
i was 13, just really getting into good music and i remember when i used to listen to songs, i needed to listen to them a couple of times after to really see if they were any good. but i was in the car with my dad and 'i feel fine' came on, it sounded amazing and i tryed to sing along to a song i had never heard before. after that i started listening to more and more of their songs.

BlueMeanie

#208
Mar 17, 2007, 07:38 AM
People discovering them now are so lucky. There's a wealth of material out there - official, and bootleg - you're going to have a lot of fun.

I remember when I first realised how much I liked Tom Waits, and then discovering, to my utter joy, that there were about 18 albums for me to collect! ;D

BlueMeanie

#209
Mar 17, 2007, 07:40 AM
Quote from: 551I "discovered" the Beatles late in life, and I'm having loads of fun researching their history and running down their various songs. Cheers!

Not too late I hope!!!
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