How Did YOU Discover The Beatles?

[KelMar]

Hello Fab Fans! I'm a new member and thought this would be the most logical thread to begin my posting history on the forum.

It makes sense to me! Welcome to the forum Fab4Fan. 

[Bobber]

Welcome aboard Fab4Fan.

[LiverpoolPaul]

As the 2nd child born into a Liverpool family in 1964 It's fair to say that the Beatles discovered me.. I could of course have been christened 'Ringo' but thank God.. or iconicism (if that's a word).. that it never came to pass. Ringo is still not that welcome in Liverpool after his comments some years ago.. but at least he is not as notoriously shunned as 'The Sun' newspaper which has since by consensus been re-named by the majority of Liverpudlians as 'The Sun', but spoken with the addition of the letter 'c' (work it out for yourself) and by replacing the letter 'n' with an 'm'. Anyway, I digress.My elder brother was soberly christened 'Carl' (1961 might have been a good year for Carl Perkins??) Anyhow, my earliest memory of discovering the Beatles for myself was probably in around 1969, when my Uncle Cliff, (who could take on Paul Gambuccini if they were pitched head to head in a Beatles trivia competition) .. revealed to me the inner sleeve of the white album and I choked at how the fab four had fallen on hard times so much so that they couldn't afford a shave between them. 'That's not them!' I protested with images of the clean-cut, head bopping, hollywood bowl shaking 'Beatles' firmly enblazened on my sub-conscious..?? In a state of shock, I listened to selective tracks played to me from the the album of hairy Beatles and to be honest it was as if H.G. Wells himself had taken me in his machine and transported me from a different century. My uncle Cliff, sensing my state of dumbfoudedness, quickly lifted the needle from the vinyl on his Akai turntable and subtly re-wound evolution (or was it revolution?) to intoduce me to an less dramatic shape-shifting  genre of the beatles.. and to Sergeant Pepper. Now at Least with Sergeant Pepper they looked like respectable hairy lipped Bus Conductors with Circus suits.. Yep.. this sort of coincided with what I had seen on the Monkees TV show.. it made sense. Anyway, suffice to say, nowadays, I can listen to 'With The Beatles' or 'A Hard Days Night' probably less so than I can listen to 'Abbey Road'. So whilst Sergeant Pepper was for a long time my favourite Beatles Album, (Revolver took me over for a few years too).. I would probably say that over the last 20 years that 'Abbey Road' still gives me goose-bumps.. at whatever volume I play it.. and that George Harrison's 'Something' is probably the best crafted Beatles Ballad ever. Not necessarily the best song they ever wrote.. there are too many to mention... but, Hey, the Beatles are what they are.. prolific, extraordinary and inimitable (although I must say that I have recorded a few versions of several of their songs which have come pretty close)..

[Hello Goodbye]

Great stories!

Welcome to the Forum Fab4Fan and LiverpoolPaul.

[Kaleidoscope_Eyes]

Always like to read such beautiful memories.

Welcome to the forum

[LiverpoolPaul]

Cheers Kaleidoscope!  Hats off... that is one hell of a post count!

Always like to read such beautiful memories.

Welcome to the forum

[Fab4Fan]

Thanks folks and fellow fab fans for the nice welcome!

[KelMar]

Now at Least with Sergeant Pepper they looked like respectable hairy lipped Bus Conductors with Circus suits..

Now that makes me laugh! Welcome to the forum Paul. 

[wheelwatcher]

Summer '76 (the hot one) BBC showed the films, one per week, 'cept MMT. Had previously seen a couple before when I was younger but now I was 14 and hooked for life!

[marthagoesruff]

FROM MY WIFE YEARS AGO. SWIPPED HER MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR CD AND WAS HOOKED

[ibanez_ax]

I was 8 years old in 1964 and my parents let me watch the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. I don't think I really knew what I was seeing and hearing but I know that I liked it.   

[Hello Goodbye]

Yes.  You were certainly old enough to know.

Welcome to the Forum, ibanez_ax!

[ibanez_ax]

Yes.  You were certainly old enough to know.

Welcome to the Forum, ibanez_ax!

Thanks! Nice to be here.

[LinuXo]

My Dad had the Beatles Box http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Box from Reader's Digest (Mexico Edition) and for long time I didn't care for it, my dad played the records but I didn't like the music, until one day, don't remember what age I was, maybe 10 years-old I began to listen to them and I really like them! Then I saw the movies "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" on the Disney Channel and since then I still listen to them.

[Mairi]

It's so cute when people discover the Beatles at a young age.