How Did YOU Discover The Beatles?

[Tomo]

Well, hello! I'm Tomo (that's basically Tom:).

I find this forum very nice. I've been participating in DM's daily quiz for some time now (with mixed results) and decided I should join.

I really love The Beatles, though they were not my childhood favourites or anything. I kind of slowly started to love them, for a lack of a better word. I must admit that I'm primarily a Bob Dylan fan.
My favourite Beatles' album is Sgt. Pepper, most of the time. Favourite song is Happiness is a warm gun or Nowhere man or...

Well. I was born in '85 and ever since I discovered old records by my father and uncle, The Beatles were a band that somehow floated around. But i was so occupied with dylan and the doors (which i still am:) that I never payed any special attention to them, not even when I bought my first cd of theirs, Help!. Then I bought Revolver, beacuse i read somewhere it's the best album of all times. I liked it but wasn't exactly blown away. It was only a few years ago when I started to listen to Sgt. Pepper and then one night I just remained in front of my cd-player, singing every song and even imagining I am the leader of this lonely heart's club band! From then on I bought the remaining cds and saved enough money for Mono remasters and The Beatles are now firmly placed on the second spot of my musical influences...

[Jai Guru Deva.]

Don't worry Tomo, it's always better late than never.  The Beatles were a massive part of my childhood, but I was too young and silly to actually pick up on them seriously until much later.  They were right under my nose the whole time, and I never saw them as more than a slight interest...  and then one day I was kicked into shape, and I realised how much I actually loved them.  It doesn't matter when you discover it, just as long as you do. 
Welcome to the boards!  Don't hesitate to ask if you need anything.

xxx

[Tomo]

^Thank you for kind words. I'm still discovering a lot about The Beatles, and when I'll be able to come up with a meaningful question, I'll ask..

[Jai Guru Deva.]

Trust me; any question, we'll gladly answer!  We've a good deal of Beatle expertise on these forums, there's an answer for most anything. 

xxx

[Ann_field]

Hi, everyone, I'm new on this forum.
I think it may be logical to start with answering this question.
I first heard The Beatles when I was 4. It was The Red Album, and my father used to listen to it sometimes.
Then, when I was 11, my friend turned on A Hard Day's Night LP for me...To say I was fascinated is to say nothing.... Then I borrowed it from her and was enjoing for hours.
That is how my deep love and admiration for the group started.

P.S. I asked my granny to tailor a Beatles suit for me (without lapels) and it was kind of a school uniform for me. I guess my schoolmates thought i was a bit crazy...

[Jai Guru Deva.]

Hello there, Ann_field.  It's good to see the forums growing every day!  Welcome to DM's.  Help's always here when you need it. 
Quite funny; my first experience of The Beatles was The Red Album when I was around 4 too, and AHDN was the first Beatles album I ever had a physical copy of.  The first original Beatles album I ever heard all the way through was Sgt. Pepper's though.
And there's NOTHING wrong with a Beatle-uniform!  I'd like one myself, in fact. 

xxx

[Ann_field]

Jai Guru Deva,
thanks! the forum is wonderful and the people are very friendly! (It couldn't be otherwise on the Beatles' forum, i guess
It's an interesting coincidence concerning the records))
This uniform was really cool, and besides, so convenient! I also used to wear a red turtleneck sweater with it sometimes and thought I looked like John in the beginning of
the film "Help" 

[Jai Guru Deva.]

Nice, I can just picture the uniform now!  The closest thing I have to anything like that is a pair of imitation Buddy Holly glasses...  I do have a picture of myself wearing them as a joke, but I mainly get taken the rip out of for where I usually keep them...  I have a record player which I named Buddy...  which obviously made my friends laugh heartily when they saw the glasses slotted onto the top of it, especially when I replied with "what?  Buddy can't see without his glasses on." 

xxx

[Ann_field]

Haha, good idea!   
My LP player is unfortunately out of order and seemingly beyond repair... Anyway, such a device is reminder of the The Beatles era.
I've heard, vinyl discs are becoming popular again (but not in Russia yet...) So who knows, maybe that's what is waiting for us after mp3s

[Bobber]

Welcome aboard.

[Jai Guru Deva.]

I do love the crackle and pop of a record player, it's a comfort of mine. 
It would be fab if technology came full circle and vinyls were the hype again! I have a few friends who own vinyls but don't have a record player... There's just something great about Lps.

Xxx

[Hello Goodbye]

Welcome to The Forum, Ann.

[pc31]

a dedicated fan...i love those kind...

[Jon]

I was 11 when the Anthology documentary first aired.  I watched it with my parents, and was hooked from there.  I'd hear the Beatles before that, but seeing the impact and hearing the music together hooked me.

[aerolls]

I was around 7 years old. My Papi would go away on these business trips and bring my brothers and I presents. One of the most memorable times, and one that profoundly changed my life for the better, was the day he came home with the Beatles Blue Album 1967-70 wrapped in a paper bag. I can still picture that moment watching the vinyl spin round and round and then hearing the crackling from the record as the needle drops and then the sounds, what magical sounds coming from the opening notes of Strawberry Fields Forever, I was not the same child after listening to this one song. Amazing. Every time I hear Strawberry Fields Forever it takes me back to the first time I heard the Fab Four for the first time.

It was my parents who introduced me to the Beatles. They are the reason I am such a devoted Beatlefan.