The Beatles Bible - Topic: Before You Loved The Beatles

TwoAfter908 on Before You Loved The Beatles

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:29:50 +0000

When I was really little I used to yell at my parents for playing ANY music in the house. But, my Dad was also a big Beatles fan, and he played Beatles music all the time, and I just got hooked. Beatles fan for life.

Egroeg Evoli on Before You Loved The Beatles

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:38:02 +0000

A more recent memory just popped into my mind: Not too long before I started listening to The Beatles, I liked Regina Spektor's music. She covered Real Love, and I liked the song, but I thought it was hers. Then, not too long after I started listening to The Beatles, I looked up Real Love on YouTube and one of the videos was Real Love by The Beatles. I was confused at first, but then it dawned on me that Regina Spektor had covered the song.

parlance on Before You Loved The Beatles

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:47:39 +0000

Not sure where to put this, but I just recalled this memory from when I'd just become a Beatle fan when I was 8:

Someone explained the Paul is dead rumor to me, and it was around the same time I heard about people spraypainting "Frodo lives!" on subway stations and walls. I somehow decided the two were related. I also came away with the impression that people in the 60s were passionate about weird things and had a lot of time on their hands.

parlance

Egroeg Evoli on Before You Loved The Beatles

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:44:42 +0000

Yeah, my parents would play The White Album all the time. I remember liking a lot of the songs, but not really knowing who it was. I also remember that the CD (yes, it's a CD) was broken because my mom dropped it, but the only songs that wouldn't work were Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence. I often asked my mom why she couldn't go get the CD fixed. It didn't even occur to me to get a new one... but I wouldn't like that now, even though it's broken. I'd rather have an old, broken CD than a ...

vonbontee on Before You Loved The Beatles

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:09:35 +0000

How did you know the song even existed? Did you have a parent or sibling who owned the album or something?

Egroeg Evoli on Before You Loved The Beatles

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:38:02 +0000

I just remembered this:

When I was little, I had a raccoon figurine, and I named it Rocky after the song, even though I didn't know who the song was by or any of the lyrics. I think I might have even thought it was a David Bowie song for a while.

vonbontee on Before You Loved The Beatles

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:33:21 +0000

It's funny, I was just remembering a time when I was about 6 or 7 and invented this rivalry between the Beatles and Beach boys, and was for some reason jealous of the Beatles! This was based on nothing but the fact that I owned singles of both "She Loves You" and "Surfin' USA", which were both on the orange-yellow Capitol label, and both bands had "Bea..." in their names. (This was more than a decade before I read about the real-life friendly rivalry between both bands, you understand...)

I can't really remember why I imagined I needed to be ...

Loony-Lucy on Before You Loved The Beatles

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:16 +0000

I honestly don't remember well what I knew about them when I was a kid. Unfortunately I didn't listen to much music, but somehow I knew more than I realized. I could name them all, probably because it's so easy to find Beatles references everywhere, and I didn't need to know their music to recognize them and their names (of course I knew some songs, because, well, I live on this planet!)

When I was about 9-10 years old, I read a Disney story with Mickey Mouse and Goofy: they travelled in a time machine to go back to the early ...

Zig on Before You Loved The Beatles

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:04:03 +0000

Egroeg Evoli said
What did you think about the Beatles before you loved them?

Not much...then again, I was only 3 years old before I loved them.

DrBeatle on Before You Loved The Beatles

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:46:21 +0000

There was never really a time for me "before the Beatles." From as far back as I can remember, I always heard them along with other bands my parents always listened to (Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rolling Stones, etc). Heck, my mom tells the story that by the time I was 2 or 3 my dad had taught me all the band members names in those band and I could identify them all correctly when they pointed to them in pictures! Of course, I've done this with my son, who is 3...we can ...

Linde on Before You Loved The Beatles

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:36:16 +0000

^
Haha.

I used to get John Lennon and Elton John confused too when I was younger. And for some reason I thought everything was sung by Paul. Later I learned John had songs too. Then I thought John and Paul sang everything. Never knew about George until a few years ago. Or Ringo. I knew neither Paul nor John sang YS, but for some reason I never thought there were 2 others who could've sung it.

mja6758 on Before You Loved The Beatles

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:35:30 +0000

Well, Elton John did seem to be confused at that time. He married a woman.

Egroeg Evoli on Before You Loved The Beatles

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:08:31 +0000

vonbontee said
From 11-12 I could name Paul McCartney and George Harrison but got John Lennon and Jack Lemmon confused!

I used to get John Lennon and Elton John confused.

SatanHimself on Before You Loved The Beatles

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:53:39 +0000

My very first exposure to the Beatles was my hippie music teacher who used to make us harmonize "With A Little Help From My Friends" in the 4th grade (c. 1983).

At that point, we were all totally hopped up on Motley Crue's 'Shout At The Devil' and had no time for his Beatles nonsense. So to prove his point, he played us "Helter Skelter" (which as you may know was covered by the Crue on that very same album). We were mildly impressed. He may not have converted any of us, but we certainly sang "WALHFMF" with a bit more ...

vonbontee on Before You Loved The Beatles

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:01:37 +0000

Fom the age of 5-11 (1972-78) I was aware of the Beatles but couldn't name any of 'em
From 11-12 I could name Paul McCartney and George Harrison but got John Lennon and Jack Lemmon confused!
Age 13 and beyond, I got 'em alll straightened out.