Here's one for the oldsters on the forum.
Man, time flies bye. I was in grade 7 and watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show 40 yrs ago today. It was a Sunday night and the next day every girl in my class had watched the show and claimed to be in love with Paul. The Beatles had changed the face of rock n roll forever. A year later the "British invasion" and groups with names like the Rolling Stones, Hollies, Jerry and the Pacemakers, Kinks, Yarbirds, Troggs, Donavan, Marianne Faithful, Chad and Jeremy, etc. completey dominated the pop charts. By that time I was in grade 8, had bought my first guitar, taking lessons and had already formed our first rock band with my buddies. All us guys in the band were fighting with our parents wanting to grow our hair long (which didn't sit at all well with my military officer father and living on a military base!!) and grooving to the music.
As the Beatles matured they stopped singing "she loves you ya, ya ya" and their music joined others as that of the protest movement in the second half of the 1960's. John Lennon became an anti-war advocate, married Yoko Ono and quit the group. I still remember with sadness the day he was shot in NYC.
The Beatles was never my favorite rock band, that honor goes to Led Zeplin, but no doubt the Beatles was probably the most influential band ever. Rock music went from Bobby Vinton, etc. to the British invasion long haired bands almost over night and American music artists copied the trend.
Today when I ride my trainer I'm going to listen to the Beatles while thinking of the times and being grateful to have been born when I was.
Man, time flies bye. I was in grade 7 and watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show 40 yrs ago today. It was a Sunday night and the next day every girl in my class had watched the show and claimed to be in love with Paul. The Beatles had changed the face of rock n roll forever. A year later the "British invasion" and groups with names like the Rolling Stones, Hollies, Jerry and the Pacemakers, Kinks, Yarbirds, Troggs, Donavan, Marianne Faithful, Chad and Jeremy, etc. completey dominated the pop charts. By that time I was in grade 8, had bought my first guitar, taking lessons and had already formed our first rock band with my buddies. All us guys in the band were fighting with our parents wanting to grow our hair long (which didn't sit at all well with my military officer father and living on a military base!!) and grooving to the music.
As the Beatles matured they stopped singing "she loves you ya, ya ya" and their music joined others as that of the protest movement in the second half of the 1960's. John Lennon became an anti-war advocate, married Yoko Ono and quit the group. I still remember with sadness the day he was shot in NYC.
The Beatles was never my favorite rock band, that honor goes to Led Zeplin, but no doubt the Beatles was probably the most influential band ever. Rock music went from Bobby Vinton, etc. to the British invasion long haired bands almost over night and American music artists copied the trend.
Today when I ride my trainer I'm going to listen to the Beatles while thinking of the times and being grateful to have been born when I was.