How Did YOU Discover The Beatles?

raxo · May 13, 2007, 11:09 AM

Fourtunetelly, music is in the mind and not in the body ...

Flaming Pie in the Sky · May 13, 2007, 11:21 AM

so very true
hey i'm a minimum member! woo hoo

raxo · May 13, 2007, 11:27 AM

Quote from: 687so very true
hey i'm a minimum member! woo hoo

Congrats, Flaming Pie in the Sky!!!

I augur you better time soon!

The walrus · May 14, 2007, 04:29 AM

thanks for the welcome you guy's. wow this site is so welcoming! I love it

and its so great to meet so many other beatle fans. thank god for the beatles!! is all i gotta say.

raxo · May 14, 2007, 07:36 AM

Quote from: 696thanks for the welcome you guy's. wow this site is so welcoming! I love it and its so great to meet so many other beatle fans. thank god for the beatles!! is all i gotta say.

True fans are always very welcome! Great animotion!

Kaleidoscope_Eyes · May 14, 2007, 07:46 AM

Welcome The Walrus! I absoloutelly LOVE your Avatar and your sig (picture and quote).

real01 · Jun 03, 2007, 12:44 PM

Born 1981. It was in 1995, my cousin had some cassettes and gave me The Beatles 1967. - 1970. - it was an original cassette from 1973. - OK, it's not signed by the band members:-), but it's from the time when they split up but they were all alive and well. (And it's not for sale!.-)So I liked that album a lot. I was fourteen at the time, the net was not so spread, you couldn't find lyrics of the songs (and I wanted to sing along with the guys so baaad - although I don't have a great singing voice.:-) So I started to write down the lyrics, and because English isn't my native language, I had some problems. For example, I couldn't "transcript" Across The Universe, I had a lot of blanks, it looked like this:

Words are....
They slip... as they...
across the universe etc.

Another song that I liked was Penny Lane, but it was also hard for me to transcript. Let me just say that I thought it was a - love song. Why? Well, the "logic" was this: Penny Lane - a name for a girl (well, it could be, right?) - and the song had lyrics "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes..." Much later I discovered "suburban skies" and figured out what the song is about.

And of course, I liked Strawberry Fields, A Day in the Life, The Long and Winding Road, Le It Be...

Then I started to buy cassettes

wingsman · Jul 09, 2007, 06:31 AM

How did I discover the Beatles? Well, it's pretty weird, because I listened to Beatles music since was a little litle boy but never was a real Beatles fan until I was 16...
Let's see. My father was a Beatles fan when he was young (but when they split up, he became a Rolling Stones fan

). Anyway, he have all the studio albums in his youth, but somehow he losted them. So, the only thing he conserved was some Beatles cassettes (recorded by him, directly from the vinyl albums...) so I discovered them when I was 6 I think... :B I remember the first song I played was 'Cebolla de Vidrio' (Glass Onion!), in the 'Selections from the White Album' cassette. I also remember an Abbey Road cassette, and a Tripping The Live Fantastic Highlights! cassette!! (One of my sweetest memories from my childhood is to play the latter and hear the first brass notes from 'Got to get you into my life...'

)

I grow up listen to Beatles in radio, but it wasn't until when I was 14 that I really discovered them! My couisin gave me a copy of Sgt. Pepper's... What can I said? I was really impressed. Since then I became a Beatles fan, buying all their albums month to month. Currently I'm buying the Anthology albums. Later I began purchasing Lennon, Harrison and specially McCartney albums. Specially McCartney! I'm a huge McCartney fan, my room is filled with Macca photos, the first song I learned to play in my piano is The Long And Winding Road.

Andy Smith · Jul 09, 2007, 09:15 AM

Quote from: 713the first song I learned to play in my piano is The Long And Winding Road.

Not a bad start!

Dark Phoenyx · Jul 09, 2007, 07:14 PM

Well I have to go back in time to the 70's when a local channel showed re-runs of the Beatles cartoons. I just loved the music. I remember singing during the singalong part and in part that's how I learnt English, because my native language is Spanish.

Octie · Jul 12, 2007, 06:15 PM

Quote from: 298Another song that I liked was Penny Lane, but it was also hard for me to transcript. Let me just say that I thought it was a - love song. Why? Well, the "logic" was this: Penny Lane - a name for a girl

My Mum thought the same thing, i mean that Penny Lane was a name...

(until K_E and I became fans...)

Quote from: 766Well I have to go back in time to the 70's when a local channel showed re-runs of the Beatles cartoons. I just loved the music. I remember singing during the singalong part and in part that's how I learnt English, because my native language is Spanish.

Yeah, the Beatles helped me with English as well! When I was a kid learning English back at primary school, the teacher let us listen to Octopus's Garden, and we had the words in the textbook... I remember not understanding the meaning of "shade"

And I really liked that song. I guess that's another reason why I really like it even now... brings back memories and all... And then when I became a fan I was so surprised to find out that it's a Beatles song! [size=9](and that it's Ringo who sang it ^____^ )[/size]

Then later, when I was slightly older and we actually moved to an English-speaking country, I was trying ot improve my English with a book that came with a cassette. In one exercise, I had to listen to Hey Jude on the cassette and fill in the gaps in the lyrics in the book. I must admit, I didn't do too well on this one, I had a lot of "blanks" (like you, real01

). And I thought "you have found her" was "you have phoned her"!

But i liked this song too, and at least this time I knew it was the Beatles (though it didn't really "mean" anything until I became a fan)

so, looks like the Beatles are always there for us, be it for fun or for study!

By the way, great stories, everyone! ^___^

fendertele · Jul 18, 2007, 07:39 PM

me and my mate used to used to like other bands i was a huge blur fan and he was a huge oasis lol we used to argue all the time about who was best and on one of our many skives from school we started to skive off in comet as it had loads of things to do and one day on the music cd post there was loads of random albums and the beatles red and blue so wed just stand and listen to that every time we were dogging school:P we never argued again over blur and oasis as we found another band we both loved

Hello Goodbye · Jul 18, 2007, 08:03 PM

Great! I learned some new slang!

Welcome to the Forum fendertele. Enjoy the show!

kalidoscopeyes · Jul 18, 2007, 08:38 PM

hmm it was 8th grade music class! we watched Help! and A Hard Days Night and it got me hooked for SOME reason..

and i'm glad!

Kaleidoscope_Eyes · Jul 18, 2007, 11:33 PM

Quote from: 784hmm it was 8th grade music class! we watched Help! and A Hard Days Night and it got me hooked for SOME reason.. and i'm glad!

Oh thats not fair. I want to watch Beatles in school! But great story kaleidoscopeyes.

Welcome too! I absoloutely love your avatar and your name