Who got you into The Beatles?

[shaun2410]

Being from Liverpool, I've always known about the Beatles to some extent. I mean, they're the city's most famous export. I knew more than a few of their tunes from an early age, as pretty much every Liverpudlian does, but for a while I never really understood or appreciated their unparalleled contribution to popular music.

I remember how that changed when I was about 16. I was away at a summer school down south, and it was my first time staying away from home. It was also the first time I'd met groups of people from outside of my home city - a bit of a scary experience at first. Now, us Scousers tend to get a bit of (tongue-in-cheek) stick from people from other parts of England. This was new to me, but it made me very proud of my roots. I felt like I had to defend my city from the rest of the world.

Then I remember telling one guy there from America, whose name and face I sadly can't recall, where I was from. His response was 'oh wow, so you must like the Beatles then?' He was a huge fan of them. I had to kind of sheepishly explain that I'd never really gotten into them properly. He had a browse through my iPod, only to find no Beatles songs on it at all. I remember distinctly how shocked he was that someone from the hometown of such an influential group couldn't have been a fan of them, and didn't even know their story.

When I got home I realised that I was kinda doing a disservice to the history of Liverpool, and wanted to put it right. The first Beatles album I listened to was the 1 compilation, because I already had heard a lot of those songs now and again. From there it just blossomed, I listened to all of the albums, and I never looked back.

I wish I could remember who this guy was, because without his direction I don't think I would've gotten into the Beatles properly for a long, long time. I probably still would have purchased TB:RB, but I don't think I'd appreciate how special and unique those songs truly are.

[Ramirez16]

I was just getting into serious (rock) music listening and it just came a time when I decided to download some of their music to see what it was like. It was also summer vacation and I bored of what I was listening to and wanted to hear something new. As I usually have to do I downloaded EVERYTHING. I put them on my iPod and they were just there for a week or two and after an allnighter I double clicked on "Back in the U.S.S.R." and it was over....

Yes I've since bought the albums....

[mjsbugz]

I listened to The Beatles on vinyl from my Dad's collection of albums. I can remember all the album covers and my favorite was always Abbey Road. It took me a long time before I could appreciate the White Album. My Dad used to play The Beatles on the piano, too, so their music was just part of my childhood almost from day 1. When I got the game I invited my Dad up to try it out and he was really impressed with it -- I was nervous what his judgement would be since he has been a fan since The Beatles have been around.

[Wrathy]

Harmonix got me into the Beatles.

I'm not kidding, Beatles Rock Band was the gateway to the proverbial music heaven for me. >_>

The excellent setlist stirred my interest and emotion in the band and I love it.

[elitemastersam]

My dad. I remember watching A Hard Day's Night, the anthology videos, and listening to cassette tapes in the car.

[nanoraiden9]

Im pretty sure my dad and mom used to play Yellow Submarine in the car a lot when i was about 3 or 4 >< and we used to sing along to it.. then we just stopped doing it one day, and being so young i never knew a lot about the beatles or rarely any other songs by them, so i happened to stumble upon it and its grew ever since >< i cant get enough of them haha

[pksage]

Mine is mildly odd.

I hardly ever watch TV these days, since real life and the Internet are such fantastic replacements, but back in middle school and high school I would park myself in front of the boob tube quite often. The nature of that particular beast, of course, is commercials! I could tell you more about specific products of the early 2000s than I could about most of American history. And there was a specific commercial that ran on pretty much every channel for several months.

I'm sure everyone's familiar with the infamous album commercials of the '90s and early '00s, the kind that had song titles scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen. Clips would play from the song titles in yellow, and the rest of the commercial was people talking excitedly about how amazing it was. This was THAT kind of commercial, but it was advertising a compilation that would eventually sell 31 million copies worldwide: The Beatles: 1.

Because of the nature of those album commercials, I knew tiny clips of individual Beatles songs many years before I listened to the songs proper, but those tiny clips would get in my head and never come out. It also gave me peculiar ideas about them; in my mind, for example, the line went "All you need is love, love / Love is all you need / Hey Jude", because that's how the commercial went. There were many such transitions, and it led to moments later in life where I'd go "wait, there's MORE to this song?"

Those were good moments.

[-Amayo-]

Im pretty sure my dad and mom used to play Yellow Submarine in the car a lot when i was about 3 or 4 >< and we used to sing along to it.. then we just stopped doing it one day, and being so young i never knew a lot about the beatles or rarely any other songs by them, so i happened to stumble upon it and its grew ever since >< i cant get enough of them haha

Haha, same here, I remember when I was four or five, we had a CD with Yellow Submarine and Octopus's Garden on it, and I loved those songs, and then, one day, when I was.....seven or eight, but I dont remember, I do remember it was the day after the Pokemon Destiny Deoxys movie came out, lol, I went to my friends house and we were going to watch it, but his mother insisted on watching the Beatles - Yellow Submarine movie, and after that I couldn't stop listening to them. Lol.

[Yer Blues John]

My mom loved them and would play their stuff when we were kids, so I was familiar with some of their music. But, it was my senior year in high school when my teacher who was a big Beatle fan played us "she's leaving home", after that I was hooked.

[jgosh]

AP Euro Teacher last year, we had a Beatles project where all we would do is watch the Anthology and listen to their albums all day.