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!
Yet another thing we have in common, M! xx
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They say great minds think alike!
ReplyDeleteWhen 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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