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The Beatles, RIP

Chizz
Chizz Posts: 28,331
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Fifty years ago today, The Beatles split up.  Anyone remember the announcement?  Or, for those not old enough to remember, have you heard any of their music?  

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/shattered-paul-weller-booker-beatles-split-50-years-ago-fans
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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    I don’t believe there is a person on earth with access to any kind of music listening technology that hasn’t heard at least a bar of a Beatles song 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    I'm far too young - never heard of them.

    Were they a popular music ensemble?
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    edited April 2020
    I remember it well. I didn't need to be reminded that it was 50 years ago though. I suddenly feel older.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    thai malaysia addick said:
    I remember it well. I didn't need to be reminded that it was 50 years ago though. I suddenly feel older.
    Are you 64?
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    I think their first two records are shite, the following two aren't much better. Of course they were great in 63/64. My mum saw them at Wembley Area (Wembley Pool) for the 1964 NME Poll Winners Party.
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Used to like the Beatles until I found out what an utter arsehole John Lennon was. Turned me on a sixpence, it did.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,163
    I’m not sure I actually remember it or think I remember it?

    I was 16 at the time and we were about to emigrate to Australia, worse time of my life, as £10 Poms!

    Definitely a Beatles fan and still am, great music still going strong.
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,106
    edited April 2020
    Scouse chancers. 
    ;-) 
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  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    The Beatles.....have split......up??? 😨😱🤯

  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,125
    edited April 2020
    I remember being in Primary School when John was killed.
    The Head called a special assembly and actually cried on stage whilst announcing it. 
    None of us knew who he was even if we knew some of the lyrics to yellow submarine.....

    Edit: I mean we didn’t know that John Lennon was in the band whose songs we kinda knew, not that we didn’t know who our own headmaster was, of course we knew that, he had really horrible long fingernails....
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,457
    Christ!

    Thought the virus had taken Macca and Ringo out!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    Fumbluff said:
    I remember being in Primary School when John was killed. The Head called a special assembly and actually cried on stage whilst announcing it. 
    None of us knew who he was even if we knew some of the lyrics to yellow submarine.....

    There are two celebrity deaths that had me in tears when I first heard. John Lennon was the first, I was 23 at the time and sobbed like a baby.

    The second was waking up to the news of Muhammad Ali's passing, although that was to a great degree expected based on the news the previous day.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    edited April 2020
    carly burn said:
    Christ!

    Thought the virus had taken Macca and Ringo out!

    You are not alone - that was my first thought when seeing the subject header.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    John Lennon sang imagine no possessions.
    I don't think he meant that to apply to him.

    The Beatles were a very significant musical force.

    When I first met Mrs Plum she didn't have a clue who they were, or Frank Sinatra or loads of others. She also thought Liverpool FC were really called Liverpool Street and played near that London station because she lived and worked in the City.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Big_Bad_World said:
    Used to like the Beatles until I found out what an utter arsehole John Lennon was. Turned me on a sixpence, it did.

    Yes John never liked Millwall
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,622
    I was only 3 at the time, so no, I dont remember them splitting up.

    However, I was massively influenced by them in my musical tastes. Got into them when I was around 11 or 12. Parents had the "blue" album (given to them by a relative one xmas but they never really listened to it) and was really the first record I listened to over & over again & then went out & bought the "red" album. Over the next few years I steadily bought the back catalogue of studio albums until I had every one (apart from Magical mystery tour). 

    Anyone who can't appreciate Sgt Pepper's, Revolver or Abbey Road isn't worth bothering about.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,841
    carly burn said:
    Christ!

    Thought the virus had taken Macca and Ringo out!
    Same here!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,218
    Preferred the original artists they ripped off, The Rutles.

    @UEAAddick prefers the Plastic Ono Band to the Beatles.

    Can't think where he gets his contrary tastes.
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  • UEAAddick
    UEAAddick Posts: 512
    Henry Irving said:
    Preferred the original artists they ripped off, The Rutles.

    @UEAAddick prefers the Plastic Ono Band to the Beatles.

    Can't think where he gets his contrary tastes.
    Facts.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    DamoNorthStand said:
    I don’t believe there is a person on earth with access to any kind of music listening technology that hasn’t heard at least a bar of a Beatles song 
    Love this clip.   :D

    https://youtu.be/5VgRuLQgeSE
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    love the Beatles, grew up listening to them
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593
    They finish a very, very close second to The Who as my favourite band.

    Have seen Paul McCartney in concert a few times and to see him sing Beatles tracks is very special.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    bobmunro said:
    I'm far too young - never heard of them.

    Were they a popular music ensemble?
    a well known beat combo from somewhere up north ((:>)
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Johnnysummers5 said:
    Big_Bad_World said:
    Used to like the Beatles until I found out what an utter arsehole John Lennon was. Turned me on a sixpence, it did.

    Yes John never liked Millwall

    I'm surprised really, considering what a monumental bully he was ;)
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    bazjonster said:
    DamoNorthStand said:
    I don’t believe there is a person on earth with access to any kind of music listening technology that hasn’t heard at least a bar of a Beatles song 
    Love this clip.   :D

    https://youtu.be/5VgRuLQgeSE
    I enjoyed that film - but couldn't help but think of Russell Brand every time the lead actor spoke!
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    edited April 2020
    iainment said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    I remember it well. I didn't need to be reminded that it was 50 years ago though. I suddenly feel older.
    Are you 64?
    IQ - yes. Age - No.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    most of their stuff is better than the majority of music being written today .. classics will always stand the test of time .. look at the popularity of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Lizst ((:>)
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    At the time, this event had almost no impact on me.  Back then, I listened to an entirely different kind of music.  I was a bloke and The Beatles were a band that 11-year old girls screamed at rather than actually listened to.  Did they play on a roof somewhere or was that a different thing altogether?  
      
    Of course, now, I can see that they wrote some quite pleasant ditties and actually have most of their albums.

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