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Once a Beatlemaniac, ALWAYS a Beatlemaniac.
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9.A Hard Day’s Night 10.Please Please Me 11.Beatles For Sale 12.With The Beatles 13.Yellow Submarine
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Offline I got into them by being bored at my friend’s place one day. He put on a Beatles record owned by his mother. It ws Live at the Hollywood Bowl. We just kept listening and listening til we knew it word for word. Bored another day, we decided to form a band, even though none of us could play any instruments, and learnt as we went; always trying to be like the Beatles.
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I’ve told my real story on here before so now I’ll tell the one I use for show.
One night I was awoken, and in my room was a man on a firey cake. He spoke clearly and said, “You will be an obsessed Beatles fan,” and I replied, “Yes sir,” and the rest is history.
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1.56am
14 June 2016
Offline William Shears Campbell said
I’ve told my real story on here before so now I’ll tell the one I use for show.One night I was awoken, and in my room was a man on a firey cake. He spoke clearly and said, “You will be an obsessed Beatles fan,” and I replied, “Yes sir,” and the rest is history.
The man in my room held a Wild Honey Pie in one hand, and a Savoy Truffle in the other.
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Offline This sort of fits this thread…
The Beatles posed the question, “Who or what got you into The Beatles?” on their Twitter account on 29 January, and the following day there was a response that made me laugh a lot when I came across it…
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@Ahhh Girl…
Paul was so emphatically pragmatic about getting [Pete] that John and George said he must make the call. ‘Hello, Mrs Best! Can I speak to your Peter please?’ Peter wasn’t there, but she confirmed that he still had his drums and wasn’t doing much at the moment. When Paul and Pete finally spoke – later the same day, probably Saturday – Paul said they’d been offered two months in Hamburg at about £18 a week each, that they were leaving Monday, and if he was interested he should bring his drums into Liverpool and do an audition. Pete said yes, he would.
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Offline Pete’s memory is in tact even if his place in The Beatles isn’t. 
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Offline @Ahhh Girl said
Pete’s memory is in tact even if his place in The Beatles isn’t.
Quite amusing that your in tact isn’t, well, intact…
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Offline Ron Nasty said
@Ahhh Girl said
Pete’s memory is in tact even if his place in The Beatles isn’t.
Quite amusing that your in tact isn’t, well, intact…
Ya I’d say her “in tact” is “out of tact”
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Offline Since I was born in 1962, I don’t remember much about the Beatles when they were together as a group, except how my father “finally” broke down and brought my older sister (14 at the time) to see Yellow Submarine at the cinema. She did have the album Meet the Beatles, and I can remember being impressed by the album cover photo. Later, we didn’t have a decent record player when I was a teenager, so I listened to FM Radio. Not really attracted to disco, I listened to “oldies” stations (WIOF, their slogan “Magic 104”, and WWYZ FM 92) that played music mostly 10 to 20 years old, from the late 50s through the 60s. The second pop record album I ever bought (at age 18) was the British version of Help !, based on the record store dealer’s suggestion that the British versions have better vinyl and more songs per album (although I think I paid around $12 and had to special order, while other American albums were $7.69 at his store).
I continued to buy albums, including some reprints of the British EP’s that had songs not on albums. But what really made me a bigger Beatles fan came with the 1982 or 1983 radio program called “The Beatles: The Days in Their Life.” This was a 30 hour program for radio that started with the Liverpool days and played each song from each album/EP/single in the order they were issued, giving the stories behind them. It even included Decca outtakes like My Bonnie , and other obscure things like their version of How Do You Do It , and Sie Liebt Dich , all the Christmas greeting recordings for the fan club, etc. They were connected by a running narrative of how their popularity grew, with interviews from the Beatles, Brian Epstein, George Martin, one of their guitar instructors, Pete Best’s mother, Cavern Club goers, Tony Barrow, Derek Taylor. And about a year later came Peter Brown’s book, which I bought and read. This was all in my college days, when all I really spent money on was music and stereo systems. Near the campus we had a repertory theater that showed Let It Be , A Hard Days’ Night, and Yellow Submarine . I can even remember a Saturday night when my roommate and I played I Am The Walrus and Revolution #9 backward on the turntable, creeping us out as it “confirmed” the Paul Is Dead rumors.
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Beatlemaniacs – a term I haven’t heard much, if at all, these days, but I was totally one of those in 1964. I was in a state of crazed adoration as I gazed on them – so close!!!! – at the concert I was lucky enough to attend. It seemed to me that they looked quite pale (maybe were already unable to go about too freely in the sunshine!) but I’m thinking now it was stage make-up.
My sister and brother in law were going to pick me and my friend up after the concert and as they came around the side of the town hall they were nearly knocked flat by the Beatles being rushed out of an obscure side door into a waiting getaway car. So they got even closer than I did.
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Offline @oldfannz — I only later discovered the Beatles, by the 1970s after they were done, though I vaguely remember “Hey Jude ” on the radio etc. How did you adjust your “Beatlemania” when the breakup happened? And how did you pursue it afterward — was there one solo Beatle you liked more than the others?
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Offline Yes, yes, yes, @oldfannz, tell us everything.
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6 November 2023
Offline Now that Ahhh Girl has kindly moved this post to an appropriate place (I had wandered off at a tangent about personal stuff in a thread devoted to When I’m Sixty Four and didn’t want it to go any further off track) – now I’ll reply to you, Sea Belt!
Well, I found the Beatles soon after they released Love Me Do and as as soon as news of this reached the distant shores of New Zealand. Being about 13-14 I was the prime age to become truly manic and obsessed with them, and it was Paul that I ‘loved’ the most. I fantasized that somehow I might marry him and was grieved deeply to see him with Jane Asher! I may have even wept about it! I found George and John deeply interesting but Ringo was a favourite in a different way. I’ve always felt a real affection towards him! This all ascended into quite a frenzy when I actually got to their concert. I’m not sure I screamed because I just wanted to take it all in. Obviously this phase passed as I discovered more realistic objects for my attention closer to home and matured somewhat!
In about 1965 I had to do a history project on Buddhism at high school and because very interested in Eastern religions in general. I was meditating in the Lotus posture and burning incense sticks in my bedroom! When I found out that George had gone to India in late 1966 and especially when the other Beatles followed this interest, I was congratulating myself for being on trend and even ahead of it, and thus I developed an attachment to George that I never lost. Sure, like all of us, he was a flawed human being who didn’t always live up to the ideals he espoused, but he stuck with those practices until his death. I deeply relate to his song Within You Without You . Although I abandoned Eastern forms of spirituality that is still important to me.
I also grew to love other forms of music, especially classical, so The Beatles took their place among these other tastes. When the Beatles broke up I was really sad but not distressed because they had left such a wealth of wonderful music behind that I knew would last forever and last me also all my life.
Sometimes I don’t listen to their music for a while but every time I resume listening to it I feel a renewed joy and delight and find a new appreciation for songs I had formerly overlooked a bit. I’m sure everyone else on this forum finds the same thing. Isn’t that the proof that in their own way they are as great as the great composers of the classical world and their music will never ever die?
I also have loved the stuff they wrote as individuals post-Beatles. Have a listen to Paul’s Jenny Wren for example and see if you don’t think it is beautiful!
This has gone on too long but I want to know – and will read – how others have become fans!
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Now that Ahhh Girl has kindly moved this post to an appropriate place (I had wandered off at a tangent about personal stuff in a thread devoted to When I’m Sixty Four and didn’t want it to go any further off track) – now I’ll reply to you, Sea Belt!Well, I found the Beatles soon after they released Love Me Do and as as soon as news of this reached the distant shores of New Zealand. Being about 13-14 I was the prime age to become truly manic and obsessed with them, and it was Paul that I ‘loved’ the most. I fantasized that somehow I might marry him and was grieved deeply to see him with Jane Asher! I may have even wept about it! I found George and John deeply interesting but Ringo was a favourite in a different way. I’ve always felt a real affection towards him! This all ascended into quite a frenzy when I actually got to their concert. I’m not sure I screamed because I just wanted to take it all in. Obviously this phase passed as I discovered more realistic objects for my attention closer to home and matured somewhat!
In about 1965 I had to do a history project on Buddhism at high school and because very interested in Eastern religions in general. I was meditating in the Lotus posture and burning incense sticks in my bedroom! When I found out that George had gone to India in late 1966 and especially when the other Beatles followed this interest, I was congratulating myself for being on trend and even ahead of it, and thus I developed an attachment to George that I never lost. Sure, like all of us, he was a flawed human being who didn’t always live up to the ideals he espoused, but he stuck with those practices until his death. I deeply relate to his song Within You Without You . Although I abandoned Eastern forms of spirituality that is still important to me.
I also grew to love other forms of music, especially classical, so The Beatles took their place among these other tastes. When the Beatles broke up I was really sad but not distressed because they had left such a wealth of wonderful music behind that I knew would last forever and last me also all my life.
Sometimes I don’t listen to their music for a while but every time I resume listening to it I feel a renewed joy and delight and find a new appreciation for songs I had formerly overlooked a bit. I’m sure everyone else on this forum finds the same thing. Isn’t that the proof that in their own way they are as great as the great composers of the classical world and their music will never ever die?
I also have loved the stuff they wrote as individuals post-Beatles. Have a listen to Paul’s Jenny Wren for example and see if you don’t think it is beautiful!
This has gone on too long but I want to know – and will read – how others have become fans!
It’s very interesting to read your stories! How did you react to the “Paul is dead” theory? What event/news do you remember most?
(I’ll write about my story of getting into The Beatles later)
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Offline thanks @oldfannz, that was a very interesting glimpse and overview into the life of a ‘Beatlemaniac’ ! Jenny Wren is a lovely song.
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6 November 2023
Offline It’s very interesting to read your stories! How did you react to the “Paul is dead” theory? What event/news do you remember most?
Well, to be honest, I paid no attention to the “Paul is dead” theory whatsoever! I just dismissed it as a load of old codswallop. I don’t subscribe to modern conspiracy theories either – maybe I’m just too sceptical !
In fact, because you mentioned it I thought I should be a little bit better informed after all this time and just read what Wikipedia had to say about it. I felt in my gut at the time it wasn’t true.
As regards events I remember more than others? The death of John was the greatest and most shocking. The death of George also of course. But those were the negative things. I just followed their post-Beatle lives in general!
So – time for you to tell your story, @StrawberrySauce!
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