50 years ago today...The Beatles

[Gracie]

Remember them appearing on the Ed Sullivan show?

 

[tinydancer]

My Mom got us tickets to Maple Leaf Gardens. I vaguely remember screaming as my Baba was sobbing and screaming over Ringo. I do remember Dusty Springfield and then not a lot after that.

 

[Gracie]

My crushes over the years were John and George with a brief love of Ringo that lasted maybe a few months. Then I got over all of them eventually as I grew up. But I still enjoyed John and George the most.

Especially George. "While my guitar gently weeps" and "My Sweet Lord".

 

[Mr. H.]

The Beatles are like the Rubik's Cube that won't go away.

Perpetually overrated fad.

 

[Vandalshandle]

They actually got pretty good around 1967. too bad it didn't last longer. Their last filmed performance:

 

[Gracie]

Fifty years. Jeez.

We be getting old.

 

[SmedlyButler]

Remember them appearing on the Ed Sullivan show?

Ed Sullivan was a family thing for us in the early sixties. That was what we did Sunday night, gather around the boxy black & white and watch Ed & Topo bring us a "really big shew." ( and if the box needed a thump to align the tubes with the universal ether that was my job, I had a real knack.) That night 50 yrs ago was as big as it got. Probably in a hundred years the only thing Ed will be remembered for will be bringing Beatlemania to America.

Little known fact. Roger Ebert was a huge Beatles fan. "A Hard Days Night" was on his list of best musicals of alll time. Said he watched it at least fifty times. Used to teach it in his movie classes.

"He said the film had such an effect on its audience that “thousands of young men walked into the theater with short haircuts and their hair started growing during the movie and didn't get cut again until the 1970s.”

Roger Ebert, Beatles Fan

 

[S.J.]

Yeah, I remember that night. It changed the world.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqrauzHPpwE]The Beatles - Ed Sullivan Show (1965) (All 3 shows) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Remember them appearing on the Ed Sullivan show?

yep... I certainly do remember it well...

'n yeah, I'm fuckin' old...

 

[tinydancer]

bring me my walker!!!!

It was fun.

 

[edthecynic]

The Beatles are like the Rubik's Cube that won't go away.

Perpetually overrated fad.

You are a loser, your taste is in your mouth.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxg0JnQX8U]The Beatles - "I'm a Loser" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[tinydancer]

Then I found the Stones. The rest is history.

 

[Esmeralda]

I was never that interested in the Beatles. They became famous in the US when I was a preteen. I was caught up in the hysteria for a year or two, then lost interest.

 

[edthecynic]

I was never that interested in the Beatles. They became famous in the US when I was a preteen. I was caught up in the hysteria for a year or two, then lost interest.

I never got caught by the hysteria. What caught my ear was the sense of melody they had in their music.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iAykoKLog]The Beatles - For No one - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Synthaholic]

The Beatles are like the Rubik's Cube that won't go away.

Perpetually overrated fad.

BOO!! HISS!!!

 

[Esmeralda]

I was never that interested in the Beatles. They became famous in the US when I was a preteen. I was caught up in the hysteria for a year or two, then lost interest.

I never got caught by the hysteria. What caught my ear was the sense of melody they had in their music.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iAykoKLog]The Beatles - For No one - YouTube[/ame]

You miss my point. In my opinion, their music is not so great, it was all about popularity and hysteria, not about good music. Their music is limited and boring. When I was a preteen, I thought it was something special because of all the hysteria surrounding them, but I grew out of it.

 

[edthecynic]

I was never that interested in the Beatles. They became famous in the US when I was a preteen. I was caught up in the hysteria for a year or two, then lost interest.

I never got caught by the hysteria. What caught my ear was the sense of melody they had in their music.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iAykoKLog"]The Beatles - For No one - YouTube[/ame]

You miss my point. In my opinion, their music is not so great, it was all about popularity and hysteria, not about good music. Their music is limited and boring. When I was a preteen, I thought it was something special because of all the hysteria surrounding them, but I grew out of it.

Music does not have to be complicated to be interesting. Their music still stands up 50 years later.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5H94Jhp7Y]The Beatles - Tell Me What You See (2009 Stereo Remaster) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mr. H.]

I just loved them to bits back in the day.
But today?

 

[Sunshine]

The Beatles are like the Rubik's Cube that won't go away.

Perpetually overrated fad.

You are a loser, your taste is in your mouth.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxg0JnQX8U]The Beatles - "I'm a Loser" - YouTube[/ame]

Parents hated those hairdos!

 

[JakeStarkey]

I have a friend who teaches sociology at uni, and one entire class is devoted to "geezer gots yur muzik", using the Beatles, the Stones, the Animals, and Cream as starting points. My neighbors' children over the years raved that the class was fantastic.