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Hello! I’m Maria from a small country behind the moon (as my friend likes to joke). For many years, “The Beatles” was just a name to a band from the 20s or 80s to me; those decades have a silly explanation. When I was ten or eleven, we read this book called “Martha” in school. It was about a silly teenage girl who fell in love with a silly Teddy boy and in the end she tried to commit suicide. It was the first story that really got to me. Martha’s favorite song was “Let it be”, and easily so, it became my favorite as well, although I had barely heard half of it once. But at least the chorus stuck, so whenever someone would ask me what my favorite song was, I’d sing “Let it be, oh let it be”. Our teacher assured us the book was written in the 30s, so I just figured the great Beatles were from around that time. A month or two later, though, a friend of mine said they were from the 80s, and that left me a bit skeptic. But I couldn’t find out more about the Beatles, so I just promised that “Let it be” would be my favorite song forever, no matter how little I knew of them. Funny, because when I was thirteen, my dad shouted from the other room “Come, Maria, they’re singing your favorite song on Idol!” or whatever singing competition was on back then. But it was a weird medley with “Knocking on Heave’s door”, and I said to him, “but dad, Knocking on Heaven’s door isn’t my favorite song!” All he did was laugh at me, and it wasn’t until my sister told me that I didn’t recognize parts of my favorite song that I realized the horrible mistake I had done. That was the day I forgot about the Beatles. However, I did make a new friend once, just because she had “Let it be” on her cell phone. I made sure to transfer it via infrared.
But we had no internet then and the music I listened to was limited to the CD’s my aunt would give me.
I started playing the guitar around that time, and “Can’t Buy Me Love ” was the first song I could play that had bar chords (which felt like conquering the world at the time). That happened one night when I was watching the film with the same name, and my dad suggested we should learn to play it. Afterwards, he played a bunch of Beatles songs that didn’t catch my attention, and now I realize that it’s because his playing barely resembled them.
My next big contact was when I watched the film “Across The Universe ,” and I loved the music, but was obsessed with Jeff Buckley at the time and wouldn’t get around listening to anything else.
A year ago, I became addicted to Taylor Momsen’s cover of “All You Need Is Love “, and looked up the original version of the song. I liked it, but it didn’t amaze me, and I got the picture that the Beatles were a bunch (and a bunch being more than ten people!) of 30-40 year old hippies. Why?!
So you can see, it took me a while to get to know them. That happened four months ago and it is the best thing that happened to me – speaking musically. I watched the Glee Beatles dedicated episodes, and my dad was in the room, and the next few hours we spent with playing Trackmania and listening to every Beatles song that would come to his mind.
I immediately got hold of their entire discography. “A Hard Day’s Night ” was my first favorite song, followed by “I Saw Her Standing There .” I started listening to everything chronologically and haven’t stopped since.
I can’t say there are songs I don’t like, but there are a few I like less the others. But it always depends on the day and the mood I’m in to which songs I prefer. I usually fall asleep listening to the whole Let it be album and wake up to Sargent Pepper or Magical Mystery Tour and stuff like that. When I’m not listening to their music, you can probably find me playing and singing it.

Wow, that was a very unnecessarily long introduction. Oh, what can I say, when I start talking about the Beatles, it becomes very difficult to stop.
A friend of mine sent me a few links that lead me to this forum, and I absolutely love it! I hope I will be welcomed

Thank you guys, I am so happy to have finally found the perfect place to obsess over the Beatles!