Who got you into The Beatles?

[JShadowz666]

I owe my becoming a fan of The Beatles to my 12th grade art teacher, Mr. Eddy Seger. In his class, every Friday without fail, we would listen to The Beatles. Before 12th grade, I had never listened to them. Heard clips here and there of very few of their songs, never knew it was them. Never thought more into it. Then 12th grade rolled around, and Fridays in art class became Beatle Friday. Mr. Seger would bring in a Beatles album. We are talking vinyls, because this man is that much of a Beatles fan. He then turned around and purchased their entire discography on CD because he was taking the record player [his own personal player] out of the classroom. And the first CD he played was the #1's collection. And that's what really got me into them, because those songs instantly became recognizable anywhere I heard them from that year on. And it happened that year, that Mr. Seger was the "guest speaker" at our graduation ceremony, and he chose The Long And Winding Road as our send-off song, which he himself sang for the graduating class.

I wanna say, again, thank you to Harmonix for making this game, and allowing me, by purchasing it, to be able to be a part of the ever-growing legacy that is The Beatles, and being able to share the greatness with others who may not be familiar with them. Thank you!!

[Mex]

My father was probably the biggest Beatles fan in all of Peru...

My father Guillermo might give him a run for his money

*Waves at fellow Peruvian Beatles fan*

[MidniteVulture83]

My father Guillermo might give him a run for his money

*Waves at fellow Peruvian Beatles fan*

This is odd. I am Peruvian, too!

My dad isn't a Beatles fan, though. He likes them, but doesn't love them.

I think Peruvians have good taste in music! :-D ...

[Cedrekins]

I'm just old enough to remember hearing the lads on the radio while they were still together. I was born 3 days after the September recording of Birthday so it seems like a nice present.

Tracks from Abbey Road, Let It Be and the late 60s singles were always on the radio in 70 and 71 so those stick in my mind. Don't Let Me Down was on the juke box of the Chinese food restaurant we visited every Friday night and I plugged a lot of nickels in that thing ;-)

My aunt soon bought the red and blue lps and I think I wore those out.

[Mandala]

I've grown up with the Beatles thanks to my parents being tremendous fans of the band and classic rock in general. But I never 'got it' about the Fab ones and their greatness until I was eleven or twelve years old, and one summer on a North Carolina mountain vacation, my dad played the White Album repeatedly as we drove up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway. Those were the times I actually put down my Discman/headphones for once...and found myself falling in love with the likes of "Back In The U.S.S.R.", "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Birthday", "Helter Skelter", "Rocky Raccoon", etcetera, etc. And as the cliche goes, the rest was/is history...the Beatles are in my top five most fave bands, and always will be.

[Minimaul]

(I’m 28)

I had always known of The Beatles. I’d always heard the name and probably some songs now and then. But the only thing I associated with them was “pop music for my grandma!” I didn’t really hate The Beatles as I never sat down and listened to them, I just blindly associated them with ‘old’ music.

About 4 or 5 years ago I played bass in a band with some guy’s a few years older than me. I had been playing bass for a couple years before this and discovering all kinds of music on my own through my bass playing endeavors. I was pretty musically shut off up until I played bass, there were some music I liked but for the most part I just liked whatever my friends introduced me too. There was also the “Rap Phase” but we won’t talk about that. I didn’t even like Led Zeppelin till someone recommended me the second album to “listen to cause it rocks on bass”. Once again I blindly associated the music with a generalization: “Pft, Zeppelin is guitar wankery for my Budweiser drinking dad!” Thanks John Paul Jones and John Bonham for fixing my opinion on that! But this is about The Beatles…

My band and I were practicing and we decided to think of some covers, we were a pop-punk-rock-band. The main guitarist/vocalist worshipped Queens Of The Stone age, so I guess we sounded a bit like that. Someone decided to say “Hey, let’s play a Beatles song!” I was just happy to be playing and was like ‘alright’. After the initial “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T LIKE THE BEATLES!” and me explaining that I didn’t not-like them, I just never ‘got into them’. They finally decide on a song – I Want You (She’s So Heavy).

I’m sitting there thinkin’ “pft, cake. Let’s do this!” They put the song on and I’m like “alright, easy enough---oh snap.” Now, I’m not the best bass player in the world, but I’m not the worst either. But, what I can’t do is play along by ear. So we work on our respective parts a little bit and manage to get the first part of the song down, but once the main part comes in it’s just a cluster of horrible noises that would make all of our mothers blush in shame. All while I’m thinking “cool freaking song I’ll pick up the CD so I can learn the song at home.”

I had to commute to band practice and it was about a 50 mile trip, one way, so I had some time to listen to things. I stopped by a Wal-Mart and I was going to pick up Abbey Road to listen to I Want You. While I was there, I thought that I should pick up another couple albums that the band suggested to me. So I got Rubber Soul and Revolver too.

I popped in Abbey Road first and Come Together comes on and here I am today.

[Mex]

This is odd. I am Peruvian, too!

My dad isn't a Beatles fan, though. He likes them, but doesn't love them.

I think Peruvians have good taste in music! :-D ...

Sweet there's more!!

I think so too, it's in our blood.

I need to go eat some Ceviche and have a shot of Pisco

[FierDancr]

I grew up in a very musically diverse household. If anything, I can thank my family for that. My mom loved oldies and country music, dad listened to classic rock, oldies, and bluegrass, and my brother listened to hair bands, classic rock, and classical. Little ol' me listened to it all and still do.
Then my training in classical violin began when I was 8. I still listened to everything, sung along with everything, taught myself piano and guitar, but it wasn't until my alarm went off one morning that the Beatles really stuck. The alarm was set to my local classical station and I awoke to Eleanor Rigby; no vocals, just a string ensemble. The cello made my heart ache to hear it it was so beautiful.

Thus, I have a cello now too.

Over the years I've infected friends; especially the ones who scoffed at the Beatles. And I've infected my children; not one of them likes to listen to horrid pop songs but they'll regale an entire Denny's singing Yellow Submarine.

[Sayburr]

Yeah, that is the thing about The Beatles. Even when taking their songs into other genres, especally classical, they are still great songs.

[Doc_SoCal]

My Mom bought me a Beatles boxed set of albums when I was a wee tot. I think I still have em around somewhere...

Ah yeah... here it is.

Thanks Mom.