Who has been a Beatles fan for 50 years?
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Fan4-45years:
MsProudSooner:
Me, me, me!!!!!!!! The first time I saw them was on the news in the fall of 1963. By the time the Ed Sullivan show rolled around, my friends and I had nearly worn out Meet the Beatles. I was 17.
WOW! You were ON it!
Well, if I was 17 in 1964, I would have been "on" Paul McCartney as well!
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favoritething:
I was in the womb for the event, but the vibrations must have reached me somehow! It was 1975 when I first started listening to my older siblings' hand-me-down singles from the sixties, and "Hey Jude" had a big impact right from the beginning. They weren't so much into the early stuff (though "Meet The Beatles!" was in the house), so I felt like all of that was my personal discovery. By the end of '76 I was completely smitten and buying the albums for myself.
Hahahahahahahaha!!!! The vibrations reached you in the womb. Priceless!!!!
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Heard "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the radio and thought this was the best song I'd ever heard. This was 1964 and I was 11 years old.
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zemargla:
Heard "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the radio and thought this was the best song I'd ever heard. This was 1964 and I was 11 years old.
Me too, and we're the same age
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Fan4-45years:
zemargla:
Heard "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the radio and thought this was the best song I'd ever heard. This was 1964 and I was 11 years old.
Me too, and we're the same age
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favoritething:
I was in the womb for the event, but the vibrations must have reached me somehow! It was 1975 when I first started listening to my older siblings' hand-me-down singles from the sixties, and "Hey Jude" had a big impact right from the beginning. They weren't so much into the early stuff (though "Meet The Beatles!" was in the house), so I felt like all of that was my personal discovery. By the end of '76 I was completely smitten and buying the albums for myself.
Well I was just out of the womb just before Love Me Do was released. So I guess I was hearing and absorbing their music from my very beginning. And they were just beginning in their path to being a worldwide phenomenon. The first real conscious memories of them was from watching the cartoon series and by 1970 I was totally hooked. Unfortunately they were just breaking up but I realised there was still great music coming from them individually. But I still lived in hope, as we all did, of a reunion but alas it was not to be. Probably makes that brief moment of time in the 60's all the more precious and memorable.
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Okay. I cop. I was 10 years old and on the farm somewhere in Pennsylvania, with not a lot to do but watch the corn grow, though after being in the city too long, I miss that. I remember the build up to that night. It was handled as an Event, with reports of mania breaking out in the vicinity of the Ed Sullivan Theater, and throngs of screaming fans at the airport and the hotel and in the streets of New York posing a threat to the performance. I liked it.
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I love reading these! Thanks for sharing. parlance
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Almost there! Just a week to go and I'm in 50!
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jennywren:
Almost there! Just a week to go and I'm in 50!
So you weren't a fan prior to the Ed Sullivan Show? Had you heard I Want To Hold Your Hand and seen photos of them in the newspaper?
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After all these years, I just remembered! I am a card-carrying first generation member of The Beatles Crackers Fan Club, founded by the late Clark Race when he was a DJ at Pittsburgh's KDKA AM in 1964, though I lost my card many decades ago. It was a yellow-orange card with Race's face on it to one side of the front of the card, and the quartet on the other side of the front of the card, and a place for my name. I just Googled to find "a replacement card", but so far, all I could come up with was this archive page which mentions the club and Beatles history in Pittsburgh in 1964 and Sir Paul's first solo concert, which was also held there. This document is unfortunately messed up. In reading it, you will find that the pages repeat in several places (????), but the story will continue farther down past the repeated pages. Still worth a look. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fojs.libraries.psu.edu%2Findex.php%2Fwph%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F4722%2F4525&ei=EZTtUtvSLojyoASkiYLgCA&usg=AFQjCNFtM5NTwMFBW2qmywPzfwsJcOHJwQ&sig2=IWpmHl3tJPjM-8TQ7H70Qw&bvm=bv.60444564,d.cGU IS anyone else here a former fan club member?
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Before seeing them on TV that fateful night on the Ed Sullivan Show February 9, 1964 the kids in my neighborhood and I would listen to them on the radio, and it was summertime. I remember "She Loves You" as my first favorite song, and slowly getting to know The Beatles that way. I sat on my mother's bed to watch Ed Sullivan. Almost everybody in the U.S. wanted to see what they looked like--it was very much a mystery, and for kids who loved their music, very exciting. My husband remembers his parents giving him a reel-to-reel tape recorder and hanging the microphone over the TV speaker to get the music. In some ways it was like it was yesterday (pun intended). Having watched CBS Sunday morning today, it appears that a lot of aspiring artists like David Crosby and Billy Joel, were inspired that night. I'll bet most people who watched that night remember who they were with and what they were doing. So, yes, it's been 50 years and I still get excited about the music when I listen. It's part of my childhood.
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I was a little slow. I didn't really appreciate the Beatles till my older brother came home from college with a copy of Sgt. Pepper -- must've been '67 -- when I was 11. I was hooked instantly and ever since.
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Actually if I were around to experience the peak of their popularity during their 'boy band' phase (prior to Rubber Soul - or maybe Yesterday/Today/Help soundtrack)...the craze would've acted as a deterrent to me becoming a fan...I honestly (but just guessing since it's just after the fact gibberish) believe that for my sake, being a second (or later) generation fan was the best thing for me in terms of becoming a fan
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I was a card-carrying member of the Beatles official fan club for several years! Got lots of neat stuff, like when they broke up & the club ended, they sent out an LP of all the Beatles Christmas shows.
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Mods...why is this thread page so big? left to right I mean? Please fix it...it is hard to read posts.
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Has anyone read that book "Growing Up With The Beatles"? That book was what I based my impressions on, for trying to figure out what it was like at the time. Was that book close to anyone's experience?
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favoritething:
Has anyone read that book "Growing Up With The Beatles"? That book was what I based my impressions on, for trying to figure out what it was like at the time. Was that book close to anyone's experience?
Yes and most definitely YES. My whole life revolved around THEM. My only regret is not being able to see them live, and came so close to the opportunity.
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favoritething:
Has anyone read that book "Growing Up With The Beatles"? That book was what I based my impressions on, for trying to figure out what it was like at the time. Was that book close to anyone's experience?
Yes and most definitely YES. My whole life revolved around THEM. My only regret is not being able to see them live, and came so close to the opportunity.
When they played San Diego the one and only time in 1965, some neighbor friends of mine were going and they invited me. My parents said no. I was only 8 but I remember that!