I think it all kicked off in elementary school when this older kid brought in the Yellow Submarine movie for a half-day. Needless to say, I enjoyed it very thoroughly. I especially gained an interest in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

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I remember the first time I heard "My Guitar Gently Weeps". It was 7th grade music class and I don't recall why we were studying the song but the sound of it was so emotional and raw to me. I've been hooked ever since.
I love George Harrison's writing style. Here Comes the Sun also has a spot in my heart but for a more bittersweet reason. My Grandmother died last October from complications caused by dementia. It had rained all morning and on my way to see her I was listening to the radio. Just as the sun finally broke through the clouds, Here Comes the Sun began to play on the radio. I knew that she was gone at that moment and in some way this was the universe's way of saying it was alright and that she was free. OK I have to go cry now...........

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wow. great story.

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how do u view a single post. its making me crazy

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click the post number in the top right corner of the post, right next to the report post icon. that should work.

see, mine is post #52 in this thread. click the 52 to view just this post.

My dad got me into them by playing their albums when I was young

My father always listen to the Beatles when I was growing up.

I guess I got myself into the Beatles by borrowing the LOVE soundtrack CD from my grandmother. Listened to that and I was instantly aware that I was onto something really special.

Also, just a few days ago I played the game with my uncle, who's a huge Beatles fan but not a gamer at all. He had a great time and insisted that another play session should be scheduled right away :)

Who got me into the Beatles?
the Beatles got me into the Who, that's even more important!
(I read about McCartney praising Entwistle and I randomly bought Who's Next and BOOOM)

Seriously, it was a camomile tea TV commercial back in the Seventies. I was four and the commercial played a spot-on cover of Michelle. I went crazy, I was singing it all the day. My parents did the rest, scared that a camomile tea commercial could be so exciting for me. Rubber Soul, man.

It all started with a Doobie Brothers concert. It was my first concert and I was expecting to know every song they played. It turned out that I only knew about 5 and I was highly disappointed. While we were leaving, they had music playing on the speakers and I'm pretty sure one was "Eight Days A Week." I thought, "Hey, I love that song!" and I knew we had the Beatles' "1" CD at home. Right when I got home, I found the CD, played it to death, expanded my collection, and the rest is history! They are easily the greatest band ever. End of story. :)

When I was a kid the only pop LP in the house was A Hard Day's Night which my sister had got as a present. I claimed it and played it constantly on out record player that was hooked up to a speaker in the shop my parents had. The customers were used to having classical music playing as they bought their cakes, but whenever I was around it was A Hard Day's Night.
I always loved The Beatles but I didn't have any other records until I reached my teens and could go and buy albums for myself. We had no record player at this point and I bought them on cassette tape. I got all the Beatles albums. My White Album cassette, being a double kept snagging and snapping and I had to stick it back together several times. :( . As soon as I started work I bought myself a hi-fi and started buying all the Beatles, and eventually the solo stuff, on LP. I bought the lot again in '86 on CD and have just given them my hard earned cash for the fourth time with the remasters.

the first time I heard a beatles song was when my mother played birthday, on my birthday, for me and my cousin at a very young age. what is awesome about this moment (except that it is the first time I heard the beatles) is the fact that my cousin and I were born on the same day.

My mother first got me into the Beatles, when she got me a 45 RPM record of Octopus' Garden when it came out in 1969. I was very small but I loved singing along with it, and I liked the Apple logo on the label.

In 7th grade, we had a music teacher (I think his name was Glenn Endres or something close to that) who taught us more about the Beatles. Mind you, this was back when they all were still alive. We talked about the meaning behind Eleanor Rigby, we talked about acid rock and the drug connotations in Norwegian Wood... we learned to play Beatles songs on the acoustic guitar. I've long forgotten how but that was the coolest music class I ever took.

In college, I was a DJ at our radio station. There was a guy named Manny LoPresto who was a huge Bealtes fan. He had all kinds of rare records and collectibles - I heard his apartment was like a Beatles shrine. He was pretty cool, I ought to look him up some time.

The release of this game and the remasters has encouraged me to dig deeper into this band that's always been a part of my life.