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They're arguably the best band of all time, so let's have a thread to celebrate all things Beatles and Beatle-related! To kick things off, here's a promo video of Help! which I'd never previously seen:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ibX3TejlZE

Who knew they could only afford one brolly between them back in those days?

The Beatles were a staple of my childhood but I hardly ever listen to them these days, even though they're great!

I think this is my all-time favourite Beatles song:
Getting Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPzcy37bA8

I never knew there was a Beatles cartoon - this episode features another of my favourite Beatles songs (and one of the only ones I learnt to play on the guitar):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkbUHMA-yF0

I grew up with Beatlemania all around: my sister was a teenager and had the dolls (be worth a fortune now if they were in their original boxes!) I sort of liked them, although at the time I wasn't really old enough, and when I was older they'd long split up. I remember though in the early 70's though, that they would always be replayed on the radio.

One of the fun things about the Internet is meeting, in the electronic way that you do, Bill Harry who knew the Beatles, and helped promote them with the Mersey Beat magazine. I helped recover some of his photos, and it was an honour to do so. My mother's claim to fame is that she once tripped up Paul McCartney in a cinema!

As claims to fame go, your mum's is a good one Geffs!

Oh blimey, the dialogue in that Beatles cartoon was painful! And what was going on with those accents? Inadvertent comedy gold

It was sad to hear about the death of 'fifth Beatle' Neil Aspinall this week. I'd never even heard of him until I saw the Beatles Anthology a while back, and it was only watching that that made me appreciate how involved in everything behind the scenes he was.

I Am A Specific Walrus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7388162.stm

danielearwicker wrote:I Am A Specific Walrus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7388162.stm

they're just so weird looking aren't they!

My favorite Beatles Album? It has to be The Best of The Beatles.

savage sounds wrote:My favorite Beatles Album? It has to be The Best of The Beatles.

Who are Wings? Only the band the Beatles could have been.

tanya wrote:

danielearwicker wrote:I Am A Specific Walrus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7388162.stm

they're just so weird looking aren't they!

If i think of them as big slugs, it makes me feel sick. But as smooth dogs, I find them tolerable.

The Beatles were great, and even though I didn't grow up with them (well I did with Ringo via the first 2 series of Thomas the Tank Engine) I still love their music.

danielearwicker wrote:

savage sounds wrote:My favorite Beatles Album? It has to be The Best of The Beatles.

Who are Wings? Only the band the Beatles could have been.

I feel a thread coming on:

http://hellocleveland.freeforums.org/al ... -t137.html

I love the Beatles, i was gutted aged 10 when Lennon was killed as was just getting to really like them.

I have 2 claims to fame with the Fab four, one was i lived opposite Pete Best most my life, hanged around with his daughter Bonnie when we were kids. He is a really nice guy, and on occasion spoke to me about his time in the band, well impressed as a young Beatles fan!

And the 2nd was meeting Julian Lennon on the Wogan show in 89, another really nice guy, the conversation was going well then i asked 'Have you ever been to Liverpool?'
He replied 'I've lived there most of my life'!

toaster wrote:And the 2nd was meeting Julian Lennon on the Wogan show in 89, another really nice guy, the conversation was going well then i asked 'Have you ever been to Liverpool?'
He replied 'I've lived there most of my life'!

Oops. What's that noise? It's that Ziggy Greaves from off of Grange Hill dropping a clanger in front of a Beatle's offspring! I bet you asked Wogan how he keeps his hairpiece in place as well didn't you, eh?!

No, I've never really heard him talk but I must admit I'd always assumed Julian Lennon been brought up on some posh southern country estate or something. But I suppose it must have actually been some posh north-western country estate instead!

Toaster funny that you mention you lived close to Pete Best, one of the Beatles who never made it to the height of their fame.

I only found out recently that Stuart Sutcliffe, the original base player in the Beatles, lived in the next street to me until he was two, after which his family moved to Liverpool. This would have been in 1942 mind you - a mere 37 years before I was on the scene!