How Did YOU Discover The Beatles?

[Sondra]

I'm glad people are discovering them. That's not what I meant. I don't know how to explain what I meant.

[greenorangered]

My parents. They love them and used to play their music so much.
Guess that's reflected on me. Cause I love them!
And it's great because I get to listen to the Beatles on my parents old vinyls

[ThisGirlLoves]

I love listening to them on vinyl! It almost makes it seem more authentic 

[lunchpunch]

I had always known about The Beatles. My best friend in middle school was a Beatles fan. I had been given an Abbey Road record from a storage unit in 7th grade, my parents had no record player and I didn't get to listen to it then, so I always had it hung up on my wall. I didn't exactly grow up listening to them, but I LOVED the movie Mr. Holland's Opus growing up, and had always known 'Imagine' by heart (even if it wasn't a Beatles song).
Anyway, one day about 2 1/2 to 3 years ago, I was listening to the radio with my dad, in the drive-thru of Subway.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds came on.
I mentioned that I really liked it. Later, I am the Walrus came on, my dad was singing to it.
My dad suggested I buy a 'hits' album of The Beatles.
Went to the store and asked guy at counter what album to buy. I had picked up the Cirque De Soieli 'LOVE' album, because on the back it had songs I recognized.
I asked him about it, he said 'LOVE' was the album from thier documentary. I now LOL that he told me that.
Listened to CD. Loved it.
Then later I bought Number Ones and Sgt. Pepper.
From that point on, everything escalated.
The rest is history.

[LadyGrinningSoul]

My best friend had been into them for years. We were going to Liverpool the day after I stayed at hers one time, and she put on all of their movies. By the time Yellow Submarine was playing I was converted. That was about 4 years ago.

[rosebud84]

It was the end of November '95 and over 3 nights Anthology was on tv, i knew who The Beatles were, only knew a few songs so i felt to record the show, so i recorded all 3 episodes and i remember on episode 1, just as i'm about to go to sleep, my dad continues to watch it and she loves you comes on, so i jump out of bed, and i stare at the screen in awe because i knew the song, then i went back to bed, a few minutes later i want to hold your hands comes on so i jump out of bed again to watch it  my parents weren't massive fans but they knew quite a few songs, anyways after watching all 3 episodes i fell in love with their music, i wasn't into any other music at the time, i would watch anthology everyday after school, for about 6 months then my mum got sick of me watching it she banned me and took away the videos lol and the rest is history  am i pathetic for saying i still have those videos lol i don't watch them because i'm planning on getting the dvds but i can't seem to part from them

My dad would always tell me the story of when they were in Australia in 1964, how he went to the town hall and he stood outside and listened to them play......i was born 20 years too late

[JohnLennon4ever]

I was in reading and we were reading about the Paul is dead hoax and the teacher said "Go home listen to strawberry fields forever.Tell me what you think."So i went home fell in love with the song then I looked at their other songs and just fell in love with them.

[blackbird_]

The Beatles are one of those bands that my uncle and my dad used to play all the time. I liked them and all, and they were a part of my growing-up, but I never considered myself a fan. A while after my grandad passed away a year or so ago we were going through his old stuff. In one big box was a record player and a box of records. One of the records was Sgt. Pepper's. I listened, fell in love, and here I am.

[theonewalrus]

Yes... i remember and i say now: wow. What an experience it has been within me. I never feel lonely at all. I actually heard a song in the radio between 2005-06 and i didn't know that it was a song from the 60s. The song was Yellow Submarine. I was actually impressed with the song and i wanted that song. I didn't have computer that time so... i would wait for the radio to air that song... What an addiction that was... and oh yeah i misheard the song as "Yellows Of Marine" (I know you wouldn't believe )

The Second Time: This was the time when i had computer with me. I had few of the albums and to say frankly i wasn't impressed at all... Actually i didn't feel them. But the time came when i heard the song I'm Looking Through You from the movie "Ghost Town". I was blown away by that song and this time was really pain. I didn't find the song anywhere... i did have Google and i typed it and from then on... I've heard each one of their song. Back then after i heard that song... i was addicted to the Rubber Soul album... i wasn't much interested in other albums. And then actually i heard some of the songs from Revolver and even this time i wasn't interested... But after some time... it was night time i believe... i heard the Help! album and gradually came to Sgt. Peppers and got back to Please Please Me and that is it... THEY'VE CREATED ANOTHER FAN FROM THEN ON!


Prahlad
India

[HoneyPie]

Okay, well this is my first post so be nice
My story is probably quite boring, so feel free to just skip over it..

Well, back in grade 6  I watched an old video of yellow submarine. It was not very good quality and after it had finished watching and attempted to rewind it, our video player chewed it up and it was really broken. So that was devastating. But anyway, I was shocked, amazed, dumbfounded. The songs were a billion times better then anything I had heard on commercial radio. The humour was quirky, the characters just great. I started listening to the cd of the movie, and also sgt. pepper. My dad had quite a few beatles cds, but they were the ones I listened to most.
Then it came time for high school, and I went on the first day not knowing anybody. I soon found that no one listened to the beatles, that the earliest decade any of my fellow schoolmates had heard music from was the eighties. If I talked about 'old' music (besides the beatles, I also listened to a bit of the rolling stones and Bob Dylan), everyone would look at me like I was a freak. So I stopped listening to the beatles, pretty much forgot about them, and began to listen to commercial radio, most (if not all) of which was dull and generic.
I went on like this for a few years, until one day we fixed our yellow submarine video and watched it. Once again, I was swept away by it all. I decided at that moment that I don't give a damn if people think I'm weird, as long as I an enjoying myself.
So now I am a beatles fanatic, reading all the books that have been written about them, watching all their movies, and of course listening to and loving all their songs.
I don't really listen to the radio anymore, I'm into my dads old records - the beatles, the stones, dylan, buddy holly, the kinks, the doors, Springsteen, the list is endless.
Well that's it, gosh I rambled on a bit too much. Sorry! But yeah, that's my story. I am so much happier now (in year 10) , then I was in my first year of highschool without the beatles!

[SpiritW72]

I first discovered The Beatles watching the Saturday morning cartoon back in '65 or thereabouts when I was but 3 years old 
They've always been a part of my life. On the car radio or in the candy store where the gum card packs and fanzines and shlocky plastic toys were on display!  Having living memories of them that stretch all the way back to the mid to late 1960's has always been precious to me. It might have been nice to be a teen or tween in '64 and have massive crushes on them (Ahem...John). But I love how I got to know them from a child's POV, first! The first time I was aware of the non-cartoon Beatles was June '67 when my older brothers bought and played Sgt. P, over and over. And I have a clear and beautiful memory of watching AYNIL when it was broadcast live on satellite to my local (WNET-NY) public TV station right about the same time.
I recollect everything that followed from that point including sitting in the car listening to the radio news announce that they'd split in April 1970. My grandpa said; "Oh, that's a shame. They were pretty good for kids' music!" 
But it wasn't until 1975, when one Saturday night Help! and AHDN were played back-to-back on TV. The evening started off as a fun thing to watch and laugh at with my brothers but they had checked out before AHDN started and I was left alone to watch and have an epiphany of sorts--this was the most joyous, glad-to-alive, cooler-than-anything group of wondrously talented attractive magical guys I'd ever seen. I decided then and there I'd never find any entertainment to top The Beatles. I subscribed, bought in, adopted the whole deal, ethos, way-of-being, thinking and feeling right there.  The rest was just filling in the missing parts of my knowledge, stitching in those precious childhood memories and employing my very geeky love of mastering the historical, cultural contexts of an extraordinary phenomenon. Not to mention just filling myself with all that music! That's when I trul DISCOVERED The Beatles 

[Nicky Sedgwick]

I've always known the Beatles thanks to my father, as far as i remember, they're a part of my life like Bob Dylan, the Byrds and etc. They're so much better than the guys my friends listen to !

[beatlesstory]

I discovered the Beatles through my music teacher age 13ish. Plus i'm from liverpool so couldn't really hide.... Well, now i cycle past Mendips and strawberry fields everyday. I work in the beatles story!!!! and live 2 minuets from arnold grove. o and i walk past st.peters church about twice a week and hang out in the canvern/jak/grapes regularly...pretty much got the perfect life.!!

[byronlewis]

I discovered them through the cartoons back in a local children program. I liked their music and I became curious because I remembered my older cousins talking about The Beatles. After that I gradually became addicted to The Beatles.

[LSD]

This is long over due.

I found out about them through my mom. She just always had their music playing in the background.I can remeber days driving to the market and hearing the instrumental to "And i lover her" and just giggling and humming along.  After arriving home with fresh fruit I can remember sitting on the front steps listen to the Revolver Album just staring at the sea and eating mangos and pineapples and just feeling at ease.
I think that sense of pure bliss just makes me love them now even more. Its like tuning into apart of my childhood.