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Pete Best @BeatlesPeteBest
Paul phoned me and asked me to join. Thats 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.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I just love this tweet so much I'ma self-kicking it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)...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)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)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...