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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 08:39 AM Feb 2020

Throwaway twitter question "Who or what got you into the Beatles?" elicits best response ever!



Pete Best @BeatlesPeteBest

Paul phoned me and asked me to join. That’s what got me into The Beatles.

The Beatles ✔ @thebeatles

Who or what got you into The Beatles?


5:35 PM - Jan 30, 2020


This, my friends is a certified Twitter Gold Nugget.

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Throwaway twitter question "Who or what got you into the Beatles?" elicits best response ever! (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 OP
Kick Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #1
Popping up in the midst of the usual? Great! Hortensis Feb 2020 #2
Pete Best is one of two people alive that can make that claim Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #3
By then you had the best of their music, though. Hortensis Feb 2020 #5
I was a young, country boy with a 6 transistor radio, who read teen magazines. not_the_one Feb 2020 #4

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Popping up in the midst of the usual? Great!
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:38 PM
Feb 2020

I was born into The Beatles. By the end of grade school we all had to have our favorite Beatle, extra points earned for being in love. Mine was John, although at 10 I secretly knew that was hitting above my weight. Paul was the usual one for teenie boppers, cute and not at all intimidating.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
3. Pete Best is one of two people alive that can make that claim
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:46 PM
Feb 2020

...the other being Sir Ringo? Wait, come to think of it, it was Brian Epstein who invited Ringo (just before firing Pete), so I guess it's Pete alone who can make that tweet.

Unfortunately, my "come-to-Beatles" moment took place about 6 years after their breakup (at 11 yrs old). My older sister bought the Red and Blue albums in 1976. As she listened, so did I and, increasingly, became the Beatlemaniac I am today.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. By then you had the best of their music, though.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:01 PM
Feb 2020

We had to wait and grow up ourselves over the years as that developed.

My "come-to-Beatles" music was their Love Me Do era, first American appearance on Ed Sullivan, absurd girls screaming themselves ill in the audiences. Just right for pre-adolescents, though, and an alternative to being in love with horses.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
4. I was a young, country boy with a 6 transistor radio, who read teen magazines.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:48 PM
Feb 2020

I listened to The Big APE (WAPE) in Jacksonvile, FL during the day, and WLS in Chicago, at night. Yes, with my 6 transistor radio. Night radio offered a LOT of stations.

AND, at that age, was just realizing I was attracted to GUYS! I didn't connect that with The Beatles, although I DID think that Paul was really cute.... I was a bona fide BEATLEMANIAC. Bought every teen magazine that had them on the cover. Had a wall of my bedroom covered with Beatle pics. With THE BEATLES in carboard letters, covered with silver glitter, in the middle of all the pics.

AND, who a few years later, developed a HUGE infatuation, that I still have to this day, with CHER!!!

The HORROR, the HORROR.

That explains SO much in my life. But The Beatles started me on my way.

WE LOVE YOU BEATLES, OH YES WE DO.... (based on BYE BYE BIRDIE)



edit to add tribute to bye bye birdie...

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