Over the
years – I’ve heard the theory that you’re either a Stones fan or a Beatles fan.
I would have to say – the Beatles won my heart at a tender age.
One of my
earliest childhood memories are of my Dad strumming the guitar and serenading
me with ‘Eight days a week’. As I grew older and worked out how to use the
record player – all the records my parents had collected in the years prior to
children were tested out.
Lucky for me there were a number of Beatles greats
like Abbey Road and the White Album. In my early teens I took the limited
edition A4 posters of the boys out of the White Album and blue tacked them to
my bedroom wall (along with tear outs from Dolly magazine) – now all these
years later, I have inherited the album but where o where are those posters!
Deary me!
As an older
teenager – a boyfriend I had, had perfected the art of singing and playing ‘Blackbird’
on his guitar and my love for those Beatle boys grew. It was only in later life
that I learnt the true meaning of the lyrics to that song and that 'bird' is British
slang for girl, making 'blackbird' a synonym for 'black girl’. Apparently McCartney
was inspired to write it as a reaction to racial tensions escalating in the
United States in the spring of 1968. There you go!
Over the years I have got to see lots of
great musicians in concert – I only wish I could transport back in time to go
to a Beatles concert (can you imagine all the screaming though!)….oh well, I’ll
just have to console myself with singing along in the car and rocking out with
the kids!
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3 comments:
Yet another thing we have in common, M! xx
(ps Paul is mine)
They say great minds think alike!
When I was 16, I was lucky enough to be given a front row seat at the Beatles Concert at Festival Hall, June 1964. Our tickets were actually for Row H but my older cousin had contacts at F.H. I couldn't believe our luck when the usher led us past Row H and down to the front row! My ears rang for days afterwards, so much screaming.
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