Can you believe it's been 40 years?!

[NightTrain]

[spooky3]

1. and how sad it is that only two are still with us.

[Whitacre D_WI]

13. And how sad...

...that one of them is Paul.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. And even sadder still is that the other one is Ringo...

[Whitacre D_WI]

15. Best. Beatle. Ever.

Don't be dissin' Ringo....

[liberalhistorian]

20. Hey, he's the best Beatle!

Good Lord, I can't believe it's been that long, especially since I wasn't even born yet (didn't make my debut in the world until Jan. 3, 1965). I've always LOVED the Beatles, though, when I was little my parents would play their records to soothe me and/or settle me down, and my dad called (and still sometimes calls) me Beatle. One of my greatest regrets is never getting to see them perform live.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. Boy oh boy

does TIME ever fly ---

[calimary]

3. Gawd I remember when. They were SO cute.

They don't make 'em like that anymore.

[Archae]

4. What, ANOTHER boy band?

(BTW, I was 4 back then.) :-)

[Limbought]

9. LOL .....

Great comment!

The first thing that I thought of when looking at the cover ........ Boy, it's a good thing they made so much money, cause they sure needed a lot of cosmetic dentistry.

[trof]

5. every BIT of 40 freakin' years!

whew

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I attended their first concert in Chicago.

It was great, though with all the screamers, damned hard to hear. Jeez.

[demgrrrll]

11. Damn. I remember when they were on the Ed Sullivan really big shoe.

Yikes.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. I remember that as well.

It was great.

On edit: A friend of my parents was a Hollywood agent (represented Jack Benny for many years). My parents knew I wanted to see the Beatles, so they asked this friend how to get tickets. He said he would take care of it. One day, two tickets arrived in the mail. Box seats. I was 15 at the time. My parents took me and a friend down to the Union Stockyards on Chicago's South Side (we lived Far North). While my friend and I were at the concert, my parents were in the bar at the Stockyards Inn (great restaurant, now sadly gone).

After the concert, we were pulling out of the parking lot and there was this big bus with blacked-out windows. Uh, my parents had this idea that maybe it was the Beatles in the bus, so we started following it. Even my mother waved out the back window. We kept following it, down the Dan Ryan Expressway and onto the Kennedy, which takes you to O'Hare Airport. The bus pulled into the private aviation section of O'Hare -- something of a giveaway. We kept waving and waving. Finally, someone on the bus noticed (jeez, we had followed it for 20-odd miles!), opened a window, leaned out and waved back.

It was George Harrison. What a great moment.

[HawkerHurricane]

7. August 28th, 1964...

I don't remember that well.
Of course, I was only 18 months old.

[FarLeftRage]

8. I remember all too well

My sister and oldest brother playing their LP's and 45's all the time.

I was getting ready for first grade...school was only ten days away.

[kckc]

10. Can't say I remember too much

except that I was born the night of their Ed Sullivan appearance. I guess that makes me...AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH! 40 in 3 weeks.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. welcome to DU kckc.... Roland Park? how is Roland Park these

days?
I grew up on the west side of KCMO, just near State Line. Have not been there since the 70's though.

[Panda1]

17. Noooooooooo

You're making me feel old. Stoppit. :wow:


I still haven't recovered from the night John was shot.
He was, and always will be, my fave.

[aQuArius]

18. I wasn't around, but I know every song by heart

My absolute favorite band of all time. "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -John Lennon

[liberalpragmatist]

23. Actually, that was Paul

I know, great lyric, you'd think it was a Lennon line -- but no, it was a Paul line. Which goes to show that Paul could do some incredible writing of his own -- "Yesterday," "Here, There, Everywhere," "For No One," "Hey Jude," "Let it Be," and "Eleanor Rigby" are great, plus his rockers -- "Sgt. Pepper," "Helter Skelter," "Back in the USSR"... too bad he had to ruin what was a good thing with crap like "Listen to what the man said" and "silly love songs."

[jimbo fett]

19. Yes, I can believe it. 'Cause it seems like we've had 50 years of hype.

[Kat45]

21. I believe it, because I was a little kid when they were on Sullivan

...and I'm in my forties now. :-)

[northofdenali]

22. I was 10. Guess that makes me the big 5-0 this year!!!

And I still love 'em!!
This guy, in particular. God, I miss him!

[LoZoccolo]

24. Oasis is better than the Beatles.

*ducks*