Who got you into The Beatles?

[trunks651]

I remember when The Beatles: One came out and my parents got that album. I was probably 10 or 11 at the time, and that was my first exposure to The Beatles. The rest, as they say, is history. Been listening to them ever since.

[slipkid69]

Have to thank my dad for my love of the Beatles, and music in general. I can remember going to K-Mart around 1975, and having my dad buy me the Yellow Submarine album. I was all of six, but I already loved them.
Thanks dad!

[blackguard bob]

Xmas 1963 I was just an 8 year-old kid who was taken to a family party / get together. The house was crowded with my aunts and uncles and a few younger cousins. The adults took it in turn to sing as was the fashion in these days.

My aunt Sadie (Sexy!) must have seen the boredom on us kids' faces Because she grabbed four of us and having hushed all the adults, she announced that the Beatles were about to perform for them.

She left the room briefly and re-appeared with some brooms and a hairbrush. She played "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the gramophone and beckoned us to make like we were the Beatles. Some of the Aunties began screaming at us and so forth.

I was out of it. Who were the Beatles for crying out loud? What was I supposed to be doing? But I did dig that song on it's first hearing and whatever I did that night just seemed natural and right.

I have been a life-long Beatles fan ever since. I'm not saying that but for that party and my aunt Sadie, I would never have discovered the Beatles, but that was the venue, time and event when I became a fan.
I remember that night as tho' it were Yesterday.

I got the limited edition RB:TB at 9 seconds and 9 minutes past 9 a.m. on 9/9/09 plus the two guitars for about £350 at my Game store. I never Imagined I'd see the day when this could be done.

When I played I Want To Hold Your Hand the first time on TB:RB, I almost wept as my thoughts ported me back to that night at my Aunt's house and how she had me and three of my cousins "perform" that song using nothing more than brushes for guitars and a hair brush for a mike.

I was just a kid who felt kinda important for three minutes "playing" to all these screaming aunties!

And there I was with TB:RB, forty-six years later, playing I Want To Hold Your Hand with nothing more than a piece of plastic shaped like John's guitar in my hands and all of a sudden I was 8 years old again and playing in front of adoring, screaming females.

It was a personal moment and it filled me with joy and I don't expect anybody reading this to understand that. This is the magic of the Beatles and what sets them apart from all the other bands. Their special brand of timeless, wonderful music has been lovingly captured and re-created in a video game. And for that I am grateful - to my Aunt Sadie, the the Beatles and to HMX and everybody associated with the production of TB:RB.

Rock on - make those memories happen.

[BinxMeowington]

What can I say? My mom was a hippie through, and through. I remember being a kid, and she would always Sergent Pepper's on the record player, and my sister and I would dance around the living room like a couple of little dorks that we were.
Back then I really had no idea who they where or what kind of impact they had made or will make on the music world. But, my mom loved them. Beatles this Beatles that, almost to the point where I did not like them.

[theicon77]

This is a great thread it is great reading all of these stories. Mine is slightly different.

My parents were fans of the Beatles but never really listened to them much unless they were on the radio. But when I was 4 or 5 years old (around 1982) we would go to Chuck E. Cheese, not sure if it is a Detroit thing or not but Chuck E Cheese was arcade type place for kids. So you would go their get a bunch of tokens and run around and play games while the parents would drink. Well the Chuck E Cheese that I would go to had these robotic dogs called The Beagles. When you would put a token in they would play a Beatles song. I would sit there and put all of my tokens into The Beagles. One day we were going to Chuck E Cheese and I was talking about the Beagles and my mom said something along the lines of "You know they have albums of the music so you don't have to waste your tokens on the Beagles, you can use them on the games." I instantly thought that I could buy Beagles albums at the store. So my mom bought me the "Red" and "Blue" tapes. I was a little disappointed to see they were people and not dogs, but the songs sounded the same so I was happy. I eventually accumulated all of the tapes and even convinced myself I sounded like them when I sang the songs. For the next year or two I would play a fake plastic guitar and sing my Beatles songs. I even remember when "The Ballad of John and Yoko" would play I would say nothing when the line went "Christ, you know it ain't easy" because I thought it was a swear word.

Eventually I would grow out of the Beatles and in 4th grade I was enamored with Run DMC. I became a hip-hop fan and never listened to anything else all the way through high school. And then one day in the late 90's I found my old Sgt. Pepper tape. It was old and crusted and would not play. I broke it open and transferred the tape into a different case and it was like I never left. Still knew the words and almost immediately bought all of the CD's.

[Razorhoof78]

When I was a kid, I was a big metalhead - even though I was a musician, I never really dug into the Beatles stuff. Well, one day when I was about 15, I was home alone rummaging around for my parents stash.... Yeah, that stash. Anyway, when I finally found it, it was on top of their original (#315,988!) vinyl "White Album". I brought it into my room along with the goods, slapped it on the turntable and by the time "Rocky Raccoon" came around I was in love. I still have that vinyl along with every other Beatles album my parents had purchased when they were kids. That music has enriched my life more than I'll probably ever even know.

[thaillaqarius]

I remember being in fifth grade and an Ed Sullivan special was on t.v that highlighted all of the famous acts over the timeline of the show. The second I heard the Beatles I was like "who is that?!" I was hooked from then on. I also discovered Jim Morrison on that show so thank God for Ed Sullivan..

[Lovering]

My Dad basically told me that The Beatles were the greatest band ever while I was still at an impressionable age back in the 80's and of course I believed him. It turned out he was actually right though.

I am looking forward to getting him to play the game at Christmas - he tried GH3 quickly once and although he liked the guitar he hated the game because he didn't know the songs.

[gmarsh]

Myself.

[DookieMan]

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...........

That's a great story.