Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#1
The first Beatles single Love me do, was released 50 years ago today! I feel old
but what an era to grow up in
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon
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#2
same as you martin,i was 11 at the time.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#3
Oh yea!...
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I had just turned 9.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#4
Fantastic era Brian, I still love the 60s music today, and would love the chance to do it all again, I was 12 by the way.
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#5
martin.love your avitar.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#6
Claud Jeremiah Greengrass, great character from one of my favourite TV series Heartbeat, which was set in the 60s and features music of the time
sad day when they ended it.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
a whole sea change in "yoof" culture happened then, we just had popular music which was aimed at parents.
pirate radio came on the airwaves and played what the young wanted to hear eventually forcing the bbc to open radio 1.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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#8
Did i tell you i met paul m'cartney at Ashford rail station?
he was quite chatty before boarding his train
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#9
nah kieth that was alan carr the chatty man?.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#10
It was good to remember the 60s, those wonderful clothes !! music, barbecues on beaches, theatre trips, ice skating, etc. Lots of memories and tales to remember... impromptu parties...
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#11
I remember spending 32s6d on their first album Please Please Me out of my birthday money in May 1963. The title track was their first no1.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#12
Ah! The Beatles and the 60's, how wonderful it all was, great memories
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
i have to disagree with kath over the clothes, most people around now cringe when they see photos of themselves from that era.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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#14
Opps Howard...Oh the 60s what heady days they were, and the Beatles everyone had their favorite Beatle John,Paul,George,or Ringo?
hard to think its that long ago.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#15
Howard, I cringe a lot more when I see the picture of myself in the suit my mother bought for me to wear for my first job, it was the height of fashion but looking now oh so frumpy.
My claim to a link with the Beetles is that George and I were both born on the same day.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#16
I once, rather begrudgingly, traipsed off to the local shop for potatoes at the 'behest' of my mother. All of a mile or more;down the hill empty handed with the prospect of retuning under the weight of 2 stone of spuds.
I cheered-up a little on seeing a rare sight of a Rolls Royce pull off just before I reached the shop. On entering the converted front-room that constituted the local sell-all, the lady was busy behind the counter, writing on a large piece of card...
"John and Yoko shop here" the sign read.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#18
Howard - some of the clothes were really lovely, though some ghastly. And why can't men wear flowery ties or shirts now ??
I still have my "Please please me" record, and the white album.
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Guest 766- Registered: 7 Aug 2012
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#19
I was but a few months old, but who doesn't see the Beatles as the most iconic group ever in the history of pop music. And who can't sing along to their songs, which is a true test of time.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#20
I would put Queen and the Bee Gees up there with the Beatles for musical talent.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
