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Hello, I’m new to the forum as well as The Beatles!

I figured I’d introduce myself by relaying how I finally got into The Beatles way “late” now that I’m in my mid-30s.  I didn’t think much about music as a 90s kid (though I remember my dad was against these Beatles hippies), then in my teens I fell in love with ’70s+ artists like Queen and Bowie.  Like everyone in the world I knew who The Beatles were, but went most of my life thinking they were just some boring, early rock band who only played stuff like “I Saw Her Standing There ,” “Love Me Do ,” “Back In The USSR ,” and most of their earlier catalog I’d hear.

Then in my 20s a British-loving friend helped me realize a couple of weird/psychedelic 60s songs I’ve always loved hearing were actually by The Beatles, such as the dissonant Strawberry Fields Forever and even Come Together .  Hearing Revolution #9 was a revelation in what these guys were capable of, “Did I accidentally queue up some John cage in the middle of The Beatles?!” I figured okay, they had some strange later hits; it was the 60s after all. I also assumed they “broke up bc they got bad and started to truly dislike each other because of it.”
Finally, fast forward to last year, a nice man, who also posts on here, reintroduced me to these guys with his book “Into the Sky with Diamonds.” As a kid, I was always into reading about astronomy from a scientific point of view… but didn’t know much about the practical history.  Reverse with The Beatles: even as I got older I had only a”popular/practical” knowledge of who they were, just a passing interest in their songs.  Reading this book filled in both holes, especially when listening along with The Beatles’ discography.  I learned a lot about the history/development of the American space program instead of just who Neil Armstrong and John Glenn were.  The book’s connecting those massive, popular space achievements with a massively popular and original band really started to make sense of just how significant each one of these world-changers were since they could compete for my interest (and I’m sure many others’).  The enjoyably written narrative made it a fun, easy read (currently listening to Halstead’s audiobook version).

Now for my specific interest in Beatles Bible: couple months ago, The Beatles hooked me in for almost a whole day with their discography on random… Every other song was catching my ear, including their “one-time boring” earlier stuff. I needed answers to every song question I could think of–which album, songwriter(s), all the weird instruments… and fast before the next song would steal my attention away.  So I started quickly Googling and after speeding through different sites each time for the best info, I eventually realized one site had everything I wanted to know and more, all cleanly laid out, kept-current, etc.–Beatles Bible.  Your main wiki is as helpful as I’ve already mentioned, and this also seems like a lovely, tight-knit board full of Beatles fanatics.  A site to stick with for every Beatles listening session.

First/current favorite album: Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band, as IMO it’s their first experimental breakout not just in album-concept, but in how they mixed some hard rockers like the intro with plenty of strange/dissonant songs like Lucy or Mr. Kite.  The only thing missing from here is Revolution #9…