How Did YOU Discover The Beatles?

[Andy Smith]

welcome to the forums dennylemeiux, enjoy your stay!  

[dennylemeiux]

Thanks Andy!

[Okay]

For what I remember, my parents both had "1". A few years ago I put it on my iPod, and I listened to a few tracks every now and then. And only last year or so, I heard Strawberry Fields (I'd heard it before but not really listening) and it hit me like a brick. I think I listened it for a week non-stop or so. After that well I gradually bought every studio album, saving for Anthology (all 3) atm.

[Beatles Memorabilia]

It was while watching the chart show on a sunday while I suffered a major hangover.

strawberry fields was the song

instantly blew my mind!

[Kaleidoscope_Eyes]

strawberry fields and a hangover... now thats a combo!  

[ManBeatles]

Well, 2 years ago when i was 15.
i found out the 1962-1966 red album CD in my house.
i just knew they are the Beatles... no more else.
(i didn't knew all their name! )
but, i tried to play that CD..
and i remembered that i'd also heard the sound of some songs when i was a baby or a little child,
just Like Love Me Do, A Hard Day's Night, HELP!, i wanna hold your hand, she loves you......etc.
so, i started to "researched" and collected them more,  for example, in the internet, in the CD Store....
and i've found out more and more Beatles' things/production by degrees.
So, I've just been loving the Beatles since 2006.

Hello everyone,

I'm new here and thought I'd post my response to this thread since I'm an oldie from the beginning of the Beatles' exposure to the US.  I was 11 yrs. old and watching a Walt Disney movie that Sunday night in February, 1964.  I got really aggravated with my father because he called me out to "come see these weirdos" on the Ed Sullivan show.  I reluctantly came out to see them and when I laid my eyes on them, well, it was like my life had changed instantly.  I remember just staring at their faces and not being able to move.  I had never seen anything like them before.  Eleven years old and I discovered what love must feel like.  I loved every one of them, but when Paul smiled at me through that tv camera, I lost all ability to speak or think.  My father had inadvertently created a monster, and until the day he died, he regretted introducing me to the Beatles.

I became obsessed with them...I had to read every single newspaper article about them; see every picture ever taken of them; and stayed up practically all through the night with my 'transistor radio' plastered to my right ear to hear their songs on every radio station.  I loved "Juicy Brucie Bradley" on WBZ radio in Boston who played nothing but Beatles songs late into the night.  Hard to believe I was able to function at school after doing this every night.

I hardly remember anything else going on in my life that didn't have to do with the Beatles.  Man, my father was sorry he'd told me to come out and look at the long-haired weirdos.  My Dad and I never really got along very well, but if I owe him anything (besides creating me, feeding me and putting a roof over my head!), it's that he was the one to introduce those guys into my life and make me a very happy girl, and now an old lady.  I've been fortunate enough to see Paul in concert so many times, that I feel I helped support his children's education.  But he gave a shy, moody, 11 year-old girl much more in return, and I still love him to this day.  Sorry I went on like that, but it was fun reliving the memory of how I discovered the Beatles!  

[Okay]

Nice story!

[An Apple Beatle]

Welcome...no need to apologise, it's what this place is for.

[Jane]

Beatlzalways, this story of yours is great!

Beatlzalways, this story of yours is great!

Thanks!  I forgot to mention the Beatles' music and how exciting it was to hear such a sound come out of those different-looking young men.  I'm so pleased that I was able to witness the early Beatles from their start in America.  

[missbluesky56]

I always heard about them and sometimes seen their picture in a magazine, but I didn't care, lol. I thought they were some preppy beach boy group.I didn't know they were british either. Then in school I heard kids singing Hey Jude, and I looked it up and liked it, then I got into them more.

[Andy Smith]

Welcome to DM's forums beatlzalways! nice story as well!  

[dennylemeiux]

Beatlzalways.....thanks for sharing a really great and touching story.  I wasn't even four years old yet when they hit Ed Sullivan, so I missed having that awesome experience live.  It must have been amazing.  Did you go see Hard Day's Night when it came out the following August?  

[szyzk]

Hi all, I'm new here. Nice to meet you.

Short story: the Beatles were always just around. My mother had all of the EPs and LPs. I also seem to remember listening to Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, the white album and Magical Mystery Tour on 8 track while we drove around in her little orange Ford Fiesta... Which meant that I was exposed to their music both at home and on the way to school/grocery store/etc.

I still remember first hearing the albums on CD. It was such a huge upgrade over the worn vinyl that we played (most of which were original pressings that she bought as a kid, it's too bad we didn't keep them), and I would listen to them endlessly through headphones so that I could pick out all of the minor background noises that I hadn't heard before.