On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:17:11 -0400, Gary > wrote:

wrote:
>> >
>> Your lot are just craftily manipulated. Now the Beatles were supreme
>> musicians, their music was music and very clever.
>
>You'll get no argument from me there. The Beatles were the best of all
>time. Together and later when they broke up, John Lennon and George
>Harrison. Ringo was meh and Paul is a be-bop musician.
>
>Lennon was my "musical hero." Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album
>was amazing.
>
>Nostalgia: I watched the Beatles when they first made their debut in
>America. The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, I think. Notice I said that I
>watched them. I remember it being hard to hear them as during the entire
>thing, all the girls in the audience were screaming.
>
>Why do women do that? You go to see the Beatles, but then you scream
>during the entire song? wth? I guess that's a Mars/Venus thing.
>
>also more nostalgia: A few years later for Christmas, I got my first
>stereo. With it was my very first LP's. They were "Meet the Beatles" and
>the Beatles "2nd Album." I still have them both. :-D

I really loved them too - I remember sitting at an oh so formal mess
dinner and saying 'I really love the Beatles' and one of those tricks,
it fell into silence and everyone heard. There was a shocked pause
and then the Admiral said "Surely you jest?" but I remained faithful
to the cause and said No!

BTW the other day I saw an interesting interview with Ringo, he's well
preserved and has aged very handsomely, in fact looks better now than
when young