Musicheads, share one of your favorite Beatles moments in your life

My father is a railroad conductor, and growing up, my mother was...well, largely out of the picture. So he would be working a LOT of very weird hours and be gone for a couple days at a time. Then, randomly, he would be at home for several days at a time living like he had no worries in the world (meaning not on call). He would just be around the house cleaning, repairing, mowing the lawn outside...

...and all the time, he would have The Beatles "White Album" BLARING on the stereo, and it was VERY loud (Okay, a few other albums too). Keep in mind, this was Uptown in the 80's. I distinctly remember many people passing by in front of the house and being able to clearly hear it from inside. It seemed to fit the neighborhood. Nobody complained.

Before I was even six years old, I must have heard that album from beginning to end at least a hundred times. In fact, I would say that the "White Album" was my FIRST true musical experience.

It's interesting to think that when I was a just a tyke, the "White Album" wasn't even twenty years old! Hell, I have many favorites of mine that are WELL older than that. And yet, something about it seemed so ancient. Maybe it was that recognizable vinyl sound, I dunno...

Very fond memories of The Beatles.

Hey Dan, I likely walked by and hear the loud Beatles tunes! great story!

Hehe...awesome!

Were you anywhere near Lake & Emerson? That was us...

My first memory of The Beatles is not only my first memory of music, but also THE earliest memory I have. Dancing in some hotel room - I couldn't have been more than three - while my dad played "Help!" on a stereo. Almost every detail is fuzzy except the music.

So I'm nearly a LITERAL lifelong Beatles fan!

I remember being obsessed with the Let it Be cover photo of the Fab 4. I wanted long hair and a beard in a bad way. Tough to do when you're 7!

I since had the long hair, but still haven't had the McCartney beard!

My first Beatles memory (that I remember) came from a trip to Germany in '91when I was in 5th grade. We were visiting family that didn't speak English (and I didn't speak German) so my uncle made a cassette tape of "English" music for me to listen to when we were driving around Germany. It was an old, beat up, blue plastic tape with the word, "Englisch" written on it. I remember a Dolly Parton song and a Willie Nelson song...but it was that "drumstick swoosh" sound of Come Together that was life changing. I must have listened to that song 15 times a day in the car. Combined with Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Something and Here comes the Sun I was hooked. Abbey Road ended up being the first album I bought with "my own money" and to this day is my favorite album of all time. It's truly amazing...

I was born in '64, and I must have been 5 or 6 when my dad enrolled me in swimming lessons and eventually "swim club."

I had to show up at the high school pool a few days a week to swim laps. The program was run by high school swimmers. There were two underwater windows in the deep end of the pool for observing divers, and the high school guys had rigged up two speakers against those windows so they could play music underwater during the workouts.

So here's the memory. Stripping off the winter jacket, putting on the trunks and diving into the cold water to be immediately enveloped by the sound of those Beatles greatest hits albums. The sound was perfect - reverberating through the water as I pounded out those laps. I specifically remember "Paperback Writer" - I always seemed to swim faster when I heard that hook!

This was my first musical memory. I remember asking the cool alpha high school dude who was playing that music - he took me into the bowels of the building to show me both album covers. The boys they looked like those cool hippies up the street. He said that they were all the best songs by the band, and I thought that it was amazing that they needed two albums to get them all in. I'm sure this was the start of a 40 year music addiction and album art fetish.

Incidentally, I always was more partial to The Who and The Rolling Stones when it came to the music of the '60s, and I have pretty much ignored The Beatles for years. I despise media hype and certainly would have continued to ignore them as a matter of principle through the buzz of 09/09/09.

But the thoughtful treatment of the rerelease by The Current - especially the online reviews and the airing of the mini documentaries during my morning drivetime - brought me back. I bought Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road and for my second-generation musichead son's 20th birthday and have had beaucoup goosebumps listening to these albums anew.

I'm a proud sustaining member who depends on The Current to show me the best of the new with the modern classics I love. Who would've thunk that 89.3 would bring me back to the core of my obsessions with a band that I foolishly thought was best relegated to classic rock radio.

Kudos.

the beatles served and still serve as the soundtrack to my family's holiday travels. my sister and i, of course, always tried to match john and paul's harmonizing, much to our parents' detriment.

I've mentioned it before on musicheads but I'll write again. Sadly I discovered the Beatles after John Lennon was killed in Dec 1980. I was 15 at the time and really not listening to much of anything (I did know that I hated disco and Pat Benetar). Anyway, days and weeks after Lennon's death, radio was playing Beatles music non-stop. I kinda knew their songs from being a little kid, but now, at 15, I could really appreciate what great art they produced. I was completely blown away when I got the double album '67-'70. I spent the rest of my teens and 20's learning everything about the band and have become somewhat a walking encyclopedia of all things Beatles! Anyway, still love the group, they never seem dated or old. I truly do not believe the world will ever see a more talented group.

that Beatles 67-70 was a big one for me as well!

I remember seeing them in concert on the Ed Sullivan show the very first time they visited America, in February 1964. My parents made me go to church and I was so afraid we wouldn't get home in time! But we walked in and I turned on the tv just as Ed Sullivan introduced them! I sat right in front of the screen as close as I could get and screamed my head off whenever Paul and George put their heads together and also other random times! For a pre-teen, it was incredibly intense stuff! I still love the Beatles all these years later.