Monday, June 11, 2012

Fifty Years ago Today

Fifty years ago in June of 1962, the Beatles entered the Abbey Road recording studio for the first time. Those of us who were music listeners at that time were taken on a roller coaster of musical experiences and cultural change which has never been paralleled or equaled, before or since.

As a child I had not been particularly interested in music, but that changed overnight when hearing "Meet the Beatles" for the first time. We knew instinctively that this was different and not like what we had heard before. This was us. Things were changing, and the Beatles were introducing and preparing us for that change.
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"It was fifty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play."

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