The Beatles: the Best!

[Nathan]

In my life the Beatles have had(still have) the biggest impact on so many levels. A song that puts a big lump in my throat:

 

[Paladin1950]

Most American Beatles fans remember the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City. But most don't realize or remember that they actually appeared on Ed's show 2 weeks in a row. The 2nd week the show was being filmed in Miami Beach. My family was living in Florida at the time. I remember some radio stations were having contests in which they were giving out tickets to see the Beatles in person in Miami.

Many years later, in 1978 or 1979, I saw John and Yoko walking down Broadway in Manhattan. A year or 2 later, he was gone.

 

[KSav]

Huge Beatles fan here, been obsessed for decades. My kids even know the Decca audition songs (e.g., Sheik of Araby). They didn't have much choice growing up because, as the driver on the way to and from school for so many years (we were never on a bus service route), they had to listen to my music.

I can't wait to start watching, tomorrow, the re-release of the Anthology DVDs via streaming.

And In My Life is indeed a beautiful song, one of the most poignant ones ever penned, in my opinion.

 

[bobcat]

I love that song. It was part of the Rubber Soul album, which was my favorite Beatles album.
That was before they went more psycho-delic.

 

[Paladin1950]

I've had the same favorite album for the last 58 years.

Needless to say, always my favorite Beatles album. Nothing compares to it.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Wikipedia

 

[Pam]

I still have the first 8 Beatles albums up in my loft somewhere. The last one I purchased was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which I didn't like at all and never bought another album of theirs after that.

 

[Nathan]

I must say Rubber Soul is my favorite, although I never owned a copy. Another Rubber Soul favorite:

 

[Lethe200]

Certain Beatles albums are considered rare issues and are very valuable:

Abbey Road
It can easily sell for up to $4,000. Check for the gold sticker on the back of the album and consider yourself super lucky if you find it there.

Beatles Please Please me
The rarest of copies of the band's debut album has been sold for about $4,200. The first pressing also contains band's name in gold lettering.

Also for those with access to Disney Plus:
‘The Beatles Anthology’
Starts streaming: Nov. 26, 2025
This eight-part docuseries was one of the biggest television events of 1995, compiling hours of rare performances and interviews to tell the story of one of the most popular rock bands of all time. For the 30th anniversary of its debut, “The Beatles Anthology” has had its audio and video spruced up by Peter Jackson’s postproduction company Park Road, the team behind the popular “The Beatles: Get Back” from 2021. Fans will also get to see an entirely new ninth episode, which covers what happened when Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reunited in the ’90s to work on the “Anthology.”

 

[ChiroDoc]

Paul McCartney is probably the greatest songwriter of all time, perhaps behind only Irving Berlin. Granted, he partnered often with John Lennon, but McCartney's approach had the golden touch, and he's been a songwriting icon for the past 60 years.

 

[KSav]

As I mentioned, I brought up my kids with the Fab Four. One year they left a note for the Easter Bunny asking both Easter- and music-related questions. (My ex wrote the replies. I can't recall who wrote out the questions. It wasn't me.)

It still makes me laugh that they asked the Easter Bunny if he likes the Beatles. And saying "He's bad" about Jimi Hendrix? Sacrilege! Clearly they didn't cotton to him very well. (Love the big question mark he wrote back.)

 

[RambleTamble]

Listening to The Beatles music just makes you feel good. That's something nobody's ever going to get from AI generated music.

 

[horseless carriage]

Paul McCartney is probably the greatest songwriter of all time, perhaps behind only Irving Berlin. Granted, he partnered often with John Lennon, but McCartney's approach had the golden touch, and he's been a songwriting icon for the past 60 years.

Paul McCartney was a lover of classical music and drew much inspiration from those classics. I don't mean that he copied them, for example: Eleanor Rigby can easily be declared a songwriting masterpiece. When McCartney was crafting this mythological epic, he was listening to Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ on heavy rotation.

For the string arrangement that backed the song, McCartney asked George Martin to craft him something based on Vivaldi’s classic movement. Whilst the end result only shares a vague likeness with the Winter section of the movement, the scope and dalliance remain the same, ultimately producing a brooding piece of pioneering pop-classical cross-over.

Similarly the grand scope and ambition of Sgt. Pepper’s is epitomised by the meandering epic that is ‘A Day in the Life’. The song works its way through a journey, much in the same way that a classic piece transitions through ‘movements’.
For ‘A Day in the Life’, George Martin was tasked with permeating the song with epic gathering crescendos. To create these chaotic climaxes, he gathered an orchestra and tasked them with improvising.

Around this same time, Witold Lutosławski’s was causing a stir in the classical world for applying a very similar loosely improvisational technique, and there are elements of his work evident in the basic structure that Martin wrote for the orchestra to work around.

 

[Mr. Ed]

 

[horseless carriage]

John Lennon delivered Chuck Berry's, Rock & Roll Music, in time, in tune and to perfection!