Beatles Fans Only: How Old Are You?

Fan since 1964. I got the first 2 albums for my 8th birthday in March.
Memory. Sitting "indian style" on the floor in front of the TV with Mom and Dad on the couch watching Ed Sullivan together.

 

46. Became a fan just before John died.

 

I was a member of the Beatles fan club shortly before the break up. I remember thinking how unfair it seemed to have just joined and now they were splitting up. At least I got the 33 1/3 Beatles Christmas album before it was over...still have it today...

 

33.

At least I got to live in a world where John Lennon was alive from April-December 1980.

 

I'm sort of on the cusp of selection 2. The first contemporary Beatle song I remember hearing on the radio was Let It Be. I knew a bunch of others but not when they were newly released. I was a fan of the solo Beatles before I became a big fan of the Beatles as a group. It was in 1970 that we got a few Beatle 8 tracks. Before that we had some singles & the Meet The Beatles album. That's all.

 

38. Much to my own benefit, there was not a lot of Beatles playing at my house when I was growing up. I remember hearing "A Day In The Life" on some radio special when i was in fifth grade or something on the radio and felt really strange.....music I had not heard. This music scared me a little because it was completely different from anything I had heard.. It took me a long time to hear Sgt Pepper in its proper form (a buddy of mine let me borrow his sgt pepper tape that he got from a relative) then I went on from there. First proper beatles album i bought with my own money was Abbey Road on cassette in 1992 (to a kid growing up paying $10.99 for a beatles album was pretty ridiculous when you could get the new Soundgarden or something by My Bloody Valentine for a dollar less--(also--Led Zeppelin, Cream, Moody Blues, Rush cassettes were like 5.99)
I could go on and on.....

 

Turning 21 in less than a month! Coming from a Korean family, I was never into western music. I actually got into their music during the summer months of 2009 before remasters rolled out. I've been a fan of the musical 'Across the Universe' but not enough to discover more of their music. It was completely unexpected but when I was watching 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' it was a scene where the two main characters were watching Beatles perform Twist and Shout and that pretty much started the spark. Once the movie was over, I search up Beatles on Youtube and watched the opening intro of 'A Hard Day's Night'.
It's no joke when I say The Beatles changed my life ever since that day. My Beatlemania came much later than others but nonetheless I'm so glad and thankful I got to experience and enjoy their music. They were my 'gateway drug' and I wholeheartedly believe music in the 60's and 70's were at its finest.
My life since then will all trace back to The Beatles. People will think I'm exaggerating but I genuinely feel they changed the outlook of my future. I even visited Europe from an idea to visit London and Liverpool, and had a date from just talking about Led Zeppelin with a girl. Without The Beatles, my life now would've been completely different (in a terrible way!).
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I'm 48, but my 11 year old was over tonight and I decided to give her a Beatles lesson. I put on the White Album, side 1, while we were going over some math homework. She's kind of fascinated with records anyway, and loved the big poster with the lyrics and the separate pictures, so she was curious and started asking questions. She first pointed out the tiny bit of 'static' between the first 2 tracks. I grabbed the cover and asked her what she thought everyone called it. "White Record" was her answer! Close!! She wondered about why the Beatles were so popular (she's heard of them from me before), so I tried to explain the frenzy that ensued with their music and "long hair", the break-up of the band and their solo careers and the death of Lennon. When Ob-La-Di came on she said, "oh, I've heard this one". We even youtubed some videos of some live stuff to show her the hysterical girls in the crowds, which got a "what the..." response. And, of course, "why is it in black and white", which led to a whole different discussion... "Well, back in the old days...", which is when all kids that are 11 zone out and become unresponsive...

Al

 

I'm 61 gonna roll till I'm old gonna rock till i drop

 

Born in 1979. Knew the music as a kid through my parents... but didn't *really* grow to love their music until my early 20s.

 

I got into them right around the same time, just towards the end of freshman year of high school. I started picking up albums earlier that spring but the PBS doc sealed the deal.

 

I grew up listening to Wings. Then someone told me about the band Paul was in before Wings, I was 7 when they broke up so wasn't really aware of them. WHen I heard them, i thought that they were really quite good .....

 

Born in 1950. Heard Please Please Me and was hooked. Saw them in November 1963, so I was a fan (almost) from the start (didn't hear Love Me Do until after PPM).

 

25 - probably became a fan at about 15 or 16.

 

I'm 24 and love them with all my heart.

 

I'm 44 now, have been obsessed since I was about 7 or 8. No such thing as too much Beatles as far as I'm concerned.

 

That, right there, sums up the value of the old format, the 45 RPM record! This was the only way to acquire music. Times have changed so much. I can't imagine the young Korean man a from few posts earlier, or anyone 30 or younger, understanding that! I'm not saying it was better, just a whole different tradition!
That really took me back!
Back to our stories......
Thanks!

 

That, right there, sums up the value of the old format, the 45 RPM record! This was the only way to acquire music. Times have changed so much. I can't imagine the young Korean man a from few posts earlier, or anyone 30 or younger, understanding that! I'm not saying it was better, just a whole different tradition!
That really took me back!
Back to our stories......
Thanks!

 

I'm 51 and I've been a fan of theirs since late '67 or early '68

 

I saw McCartney on TV singing My Love in '73 or something. I was 9 years old. I heard my mother saying something like 'He was so cute, now he got sooo old' (???). The day after, it was Beatlemania.

 

48. Beatles were always a part of the 'background' music of my youth. They entered my consciousness in '77 and never really left.

 

I'll be 40 later this year. My older cousin brother introduced me to The Beatles when I was 7. My earliest memory is the jet engine sound from "Back in the USSR". My favourite band by some distance

 

Turning 40 in just under two weeks. I was 7 when Lennon died and remember the news stories and people talking about it, but didn't really know from the Beatles at that point or understand the significance.

I became a fan a year or so later, after borrowing a cousin's copies of the Red and Blue albums. When I first heard "With a Little Help from My Friends" I recognized it as something I'd already heard on The Muppet Show, but the first song of theirs to really catch my attention as a Beatles song was "Penny Lane". If pressed I think I'd still name that as my favorite of theirs.

 

WTF???? Are you serious?? So cool if you are.

 

I'm 48, turning 49 later this week.
I was born on April 20th, 1964. I have strong memories of the first run of Monkees shows (Batman & Star Trek too), but I was deeper into it during early 70's re-runs. I was more of a Monkees fan early on (age 2, 3, 4), but probably did get into The Beatles before they broke up...meaning 68/69, but I voted for the second option here.
I bought "Headquarters" & "The Monkees Greatest Hits" first, around the time I first heard my mom's copy of The Mamas & Papas "If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears", & the copy of "Rubber Soul" she'd bought for my cousins to have to play at my grandmother's house. Shortly thereafter I bought "Revolver" & I started to pick up more Beatles & Monkees albums with every birthday & Christmas, etc. ...around the time the pace picks up & I do remember refusing to go see "Yellow Submarine" with my cousins because my mom wasn't going & The Blue Meanies etc. on the poster & I think in some commercial I saw scared the crap out of the then just slightly pre-school me- I also recall my mom buying Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album right around this era as well...it wasn't long before I was aware that they'd broken up, & I started getting both Beatles albums & solo releases. I started buying all the solo releases right when they came out, I think, starting in '73, or '74 (I know it wasn't any earlier than that), & I'm pretty sure I had all the U.S. albums by the time the Red '62-'66 & Blue '67-'70 sets came out ('73, right?)- so that would also signal why my resources went to getting all the solo stuff upon release & whatever I was missing from the few years before that...