It Was Fifty Years Ago Today

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

I really thought you would go with, "It was 50 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play."

This is what I was going to post when I started reading the thread, and then there it was. You scare me, Adam.

I wasn't old enough to get the Sullivan show...but I lived in Detroit as a kid and was a huge Motown fan....yet the first song I remember in my life was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".

[14holestogie]

I am old enough and remember it all.

Starting buying records after seeing them at age 10 to listen and learn.
My oldest brother started a band shortly after. I'd beat on the drummer's drums until my brother would come home and beat on me.
Dreamed up ways to purchase my own drum set at age 13. Been playing for the 46 years since that.
Started me on cd's when they finally came out in the late 80's.
Have you heard McCartney's latest? He's still got it.

Yup, they had no effect on me.

[AdamJoshua]

Originally Posted by icehog3

This is what I was going to post when I started reading the thread, and then there it was. You scare me, Adam.

Well then either they don't get us, or we don't get "the point of this post".

Though I wasn't around then I love reading about them and watching the old documentaries on them, the one produced by Ed Sullivan's company is one of my favorites, showing the helicopter ride to Flushing Meadows and the ride in the armored van to Shea Stadium is unreal.

The old photos of the streets packed with people, hundreds of signs, the hotel they stayed at literally got mail sacks full of fan mail for weeks after they had left. Just mind blowing the reaction they caused every where they went.