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The Beatles

Can you get any more famous than this? I grew up on The Beatles, you grew up on The Beatles, my freakin' parents grew up on The Beatles... EVERYBODY grew up on The Beatles, it's in our blood!. They are simply unavoidable if you are a fan of music, sooner or later, you'll go back to them. Although I am no beatlemaniac, I don't know their history, even the more famous things might be but a faint sleeping memory in my brain, hiding way back there, a note I might have heard from a documentary on TV while zapping through the channels late at night. I don't know much about them except for their music and the legacy they've left behind. For many years I would hear their music in the car while my parents would drive me and my sister to an uncle's house or on our way to our cottage or wherever. It's the car rides with The Beatles which I remember the most and the two have become closely associated in my mind, something fun and adventurous was going to happen when I would hear their music (Maybe a trip to the ice cream store? Being up late at a relative's house, watching movies that I shouldn't be watching at my tender age? Or maybe just getting a mattress at a local store!). The songs stick in your head and even though they tend to get mixed up with other artists of the era at that age, soon enough you'll be able to identify them as your knowledge of music expands.

I would later associate them with the hippy kids at school, and that would turn me off. I hated those macrame kids with the loose pants and ponchos. We were not living in the sixties anymore and it did not make sense to me. I wanted to be tough so Metallica and Slayer were the only things for me. In fact, it took quite a while before I actually started being interested in The Beatles again, even longer to purchase my first Beatles record. But as I've said, you're bound to get back to them if you are the slightest bit interested in music: as Shakespeare is for theater, so are The Beatles to rock'n'roll. I cannot really pinpoint what attracted me to them, perhaps it's the history behind them, the inevitable influences they have on many other artists which I've crossed through the years. Maybe it's the constant references by The Residents... Who knows? I still have a tendency to dismiss the earlier pop albums and would rather focus on the later, more serious and psychedelic albums. My main goal however is the deepen my knowledge of the group, to and see and hear the roots they have set and which have grown in later music. I mean, please! These guys are everywhere! They're huge! Bigger than Jesus even!

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