It Was 50 Years Ago Today

[billf]

The Billboard Hot 100, April 4, 1964
Position, Title
No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love"
No. 2, "Twist and Shout"
No. 3, "She Loves You"
No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
No. 5, "Please Please Me"

[Shooshie]

Good grief; and I can still remember every word.

Shoosh

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Me too. I was 10 at the time.

[stubbsonic]

I was a couple months old. Years ago my friends and fellow fans gave me a life-sized poster of the fab four which is on the wall above my work area. I like that it doesn't symbolize something specific. And for me, it really isn't about their fame. I just think about some creative music that went to surprising places and often deeply beautiful places.

They stumbled almost blindly into a degree of stardom is not fit for humans. I almost think of it as a fascinating, but in some ways unfortunate side-effect of the commercial music industry.

[Tritonemusic]

Me too. I was 10 at the time.

I was negative 2. However, it didn't take long to catch up.

[mikehalloran]

Me too. I was 10 at the time.

Yikes! I turned 10 a month and a half later.

I was still playing a ukulele left handed but knew I needed to play the guitar. My dad wouldn't let me re-string his so I taught myself to play like all the others.

I don't know if I could have handled Sgt Pepper, Pet Sounds, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors or The Mothers of Invention before I was 13 or so but that all happened in 1967 and I was ready.

As young musicians, we were the right age at the right time.

I could never have predicted that my children would be listening to the same artists I listed to as a kid.