The Beatles Bible - Topic: Thoughts on all the Beatles albums Part 1

Funny Paper on Thoughts on all the Beatles albums Part 1

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:28:31 +0000

I never thought about it this way, but there are basically three perspectives on a Beatles "coming of age" experience in terms of time lines:

1) experiencing the Beatles at the time, as it was happening

2) experiencing the Beatles in direct aftermath -- right after the break-up: in those unique "70s" (remember disco, the Bee Gees, John Travolta, all those cheesy (and also great -- MASH, All in the Family etc.) TV shows

3) experiencing the Beatles at a long time distance -- whether growing up in the 80s, or 90s or born in 2000, it's all the same in terms of ...

Beatles in the Blood on Thoughts on all the Beatles albums Part 1

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:38:57 +0000

Wow I would have loved to live back then

Von Bontee on Thoughts on all the Beatles albums Part 1

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:27:00 +0000

Thanks, Frank - always nice to read these first-person perspectives from someone old enough to have been there from the beginning.

frankdialogue on Thoughts on all the Beatles albums Part 1

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:00:26 +0000

All of the Beatles albums are indeed unique and quite wonderful, and all of them occupy a unique space in musical history.

I will share some thoughts on a few of them...

Like millions of other Americans, I first saw the Beatles on the 'Ed Sullivan Show' in early 1964, while the country was still realing from the murder of JFK...Like those other millions of people, I was overjoyed and amazed by these four guys from Liverpool bringing some bright sunshine into a very bleak winter.