A few years after they broke up, a friend introduced me to the White Album. I was hooked! For me, the White Album represented a unique period for the band. Many of the songs were less collaborations and more individual efforts. Between John and Paul, there was some sharing. But for the most part they worked individually.

There are some great tunes on this double album... Like Blackbird, or I'm So Tired...I Will... Come Together...USSR... While My Guitar Gently Weeps (with Clapton on lead)... On and on.

The album reminds me of another great offering by the band.... Abby Road. Here we get a chance to really hear George Harrison's creative skills with Here Comes The Sun and Something (which Frank Sinatra said was the greatest love song ever written).

Amazing band that not only changed music, but changed the world.

Yeah, they scarcely made a bad tune. And even when they weren't at their best they weren't really bad.

My current favorite is:

Especially this one: If i needed someone

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And this one:

She adores Prince and loves everyone else there. A lot of people probably don't know Prince could play guitar like that. He's something akin to Jimi Hendrix on that thing.

Can’t name my favorites. Of all their songs I could count on one hand the ones I dislike.

Hearing that for the first time was when I knew I really had to start listening to the Beatles. They have so many songs that just slay you the first time you're ever introduced to them.

Imagine missing out on Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album...they would've sounded like the Stones in your alt universe!

But they still seriously rocked!

but I've developed a new appreciation for the earlier stuff now as well.

I'm glad they tried LSD

I wouldn't have wanted to be anything other than what they were.

(The second side of Abbey Road.)

Also "Strawberry Fields Forever"

PS - my younger daughter is named Abbey.

Saw the show this fall at the Mirage in Vegas. I have never seen a Cirque show before and went in with no idea what to expect. I've been fortunate to see a lot of various kinds of performances in my life, this is easily in the top ten. The way the music flowed and intertwined was fantastic. The CD for the show is pretty awesome in and of itself. The show with the music was amazing and I would definitely recommend it and I would like to see it again. So hard to describe, but both fun and mystical.

Peace

They grow on you with time.

of my favorites:

didn't see him (the Yale Bowl is BIG). There was extra security and I asked a cop in the stadium why so many uniformed New Haven PD were there. Turns out Malia Obama was there (she is a freshman at Harvard) and McCartney who has a grandson attending Yale. Later I saw a photo of him sitting there wearing a Yale cap and his sunglasses.

Yale won. Life is good.

I was in basic training at Fort Benning, GA, the first time I ever heard "Paperback Writer." We weren't really allowed to have radios, so all I heard of the song was from a distance over really crummy, static-y, AM radio. I thought they were saying "Pay for that Rifle," and I thought it was so eerie, because from the moment we were issued our rifles we were warned that if we let anything happen to that rifle, we'd have to pay for it. I finally figured out what it really said after I got home from basic.

I went to high school with a guy named Ira, who was addicted to radio. As a result, he always knew the lyrics to songs before anyone else.

We tended to follow Ira's lead, given his expertise.

So everyone in school was singing "Hey there, Louise" - until we realized the lyric was actually "Eight Days a Week".

'the girl with kaleidoscope eyes' in 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' as 'the girl with colitis goes by'.

But Hey there, Louise?

Ira lost all cafeteria cred after that fiasco, and graduated a broken man.

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Have never been able to decide. I tried to choose one per album and when that didn't work- one per side of album. Needless to say it's easier to pick the ones I don't like and I can't think of any offhand

My son tells me that it is and he knows more about the Beatles than anyone else I know...

Sitting on a cornflake,
Waiting for the van to come.

In Lennon's words:

The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend

And almost every song after. The soundtrack of my life for 15 years.

Can't say it any better than this:

The climax of their masterpiece Sgt Pepper, A Day In The Life found The Beatles at the peak of their creative powers, an astonishing artistic statement that saw them fearless, breaking boundaries, and enthralling generations of listeners with the timeless quality of their music.