Please please me....it was 50 years ago today (give or take a day or so)

For me, life would be missing something without The Beatles. I've loved them for so long now, I can still keep going back to them and finding something new to love. There was a time when I didn't think they made a truly great album until Rubber Soul, but now I think they're all great. Favourites off Please Please Me? There's a place, Ps I love You....

They've been rerecording it, I heard a bit on R2....I could do without the Joss Stone Taste of Honey but I like I Am Kloot's Chains.

The Beatles are the gift that still keeps giving even after all this time...

 

Bought most of their LPs in the early days...couldn't fit them in suitcase one day so gave them away to an oppo...regretted it ever since.

 

They were unique, I'd say.

 

i really like the early stuff i love you you love type of songs but it all when pear shape towards the end i must be the only person who can't stand sargent pepper

 

Ah yes closely followed by lucy etc.etc. I remember endless boring conversations based around its possible meanings.

 

im big on them...i vary with my tastes from time to time...ive made my own compilations depending on mood too. to cap that ive been going to the convention in liverpool for many many years, met some great people some famous people made some good friends and always have a great time. my mate met his now wife in the cavern club (basement of a mscp) on one of our anual visits. they did so many "firsts" and bigger than we can really understand now. great band i dont think ill ever get tired of.

 

I admit I'm a bit of a Beatles tragic. I've gone to extremes to get pressings of the same albums from around the world.
Rubber Soul, Revolver & Sgt.Pepper are my favourites.
I remember sitting up to hear the first play of the entire Sgt. Pepper on radio. There was an embargo on it being played before a certain date & a Melbourne radio station was playing it uninterupted starting at midnight. Luckily our house master was a bit of a closet fan himself & turned a blind eye to this blatent rule breaking in the junior school.

 

Ive been playing abbey road in the van for the last couple of days i just cant get tired of it , also i have sgt pepper the picture disc but the sleve got wet B^^^^^^s. i just love the raw sound of the music

 

I heard the re-recordings on Radio 2, some were great like the Stereophonics and some were awful!

I adore the Beatles and played the whole Please Please Me album on Monday in tribute, plus Sargent Pepper too - I Saw Her Standing There is probs my favourite

My parents got me into all 50s/60s music including Billy Fury and Elvis and when I hit 13 we all used to sit in my mates bedroom listening to the Beatles while we all wore John Lennon glasses and thought we were the mutts nutts

 

Ah, Billy Fury, I have an album of his somewhere, I need to dig it out, much underated and a very talented artist. It was Abbey Road that got me into them really, mate of mine we used to listen to it so many times, I Want You (She's So Heavy) still knocks my socks off to this day. Took me a while to appreciate Sgt Pepper, mostly I think because it was supposedly their masterpiece and I'm reluctant to buy into that sort of thing, but I've grown into it

 

Is it ok to say i cant stand the beatles in any shape or form. I have tried but they just dont cut the mustard for me.
Now Billy Fury, well he could turn out some drivel but by the same token he could be pretty dark, just listen to this.

 

Have to agree, never got them at all, emperors new clothes as far as I'm concerned.

Hey but that's why we're all different.

 

I'm a life-long Beatles fan - I go through phases of listening to them a lot vs not much at all but they are ever present.
The White Album is my favourite - not for consistency but for the gems that are on there

 

The good thing with my iPod is being able to cream off the best of summat like The white album, (which is a good proportion of it imo), and leave out stuff I'm not much of a fan of (like Rocky Raccoon), and stuff I can't stand (like Revolution# 9)

 

I have to say I do enjoy The Beatles. As a younger guy (still in my twenties) I appreciate them a whole lot and see their influence in so many bands of my generation.

Favourites album is probably Revoler.

I recently saw the Let it Be show in the west end and it was basically a Beatles cover band show. Talented musicians and I'd recommend it if you are into them...

 

BBC 4 friday night at 21.00hrs is the tv version of the abbey rd album cover thing that was on radio 2 the other day

 

Just watched...............bit of a disappointment mostly, Ian Broudie!!! Jeez! What was that??? They didn't do the whole album either, no Love Me Do, no PS I Love You. Still I liked Gabrielle Aplin and Graham Coxon.

 

I saw her standing there is my fave off please please me.
Fave album is Abbey road as its so polished ,the 2nd side is awesome.
Next fave is rubber soul ,closely followed by revolver.

 

First ever commercial boy band in my opinion. Same hair cut, same cloths. There the reason we have to put up with so much crap music nowadays. The music managers saw how much the young girls loved them And now they do anything to produce bands with an image rather than music the only downfall for the Beatles mind you is the fact that there music was ace. A product of there of industry's destruction

 

But how many of today "boy bands" write their own music & lyrics. Pitifully few I'd suggest.
Look at the early pictures of The Beatles, no manufactured image there, it cam later as it was the only way to break into the music establishment at the time.