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Elizabeth's Story:

It was probobly during watching "I'm Down" on the Ed Sullivan Show. I had seen it before but that time I was really listning and it just hit that they where good and even live(which is rare now days) so after that I started an intrest and I tryed to keep quite about it but it didnt work but now I dont mind.

Claire's Story:

I was eight, I believe, (So about five/six years ago, if math class has taught me anything.) when my father told me about his teen years in the sixties. How the "Hippie movement was a real gas." Anywho, I thought the whole thing was real neat-o. So he bought me Sergeat Pepper. He said, "These are the guys that started it all. This one was my favorite." I remember playing it all the time, because it was the only record I had. I was addicted. My mum told me to rent A Hard Day's Night. She claims that after she saw it the first time she didn't leave the theater, and watched it another two times. So I figured it had to be good. Heh, I fell for John instantly. I'm still madly in love with him. Haha, And still crazy about the beatles.

I guess I'll be buried clutching my Sergeant Pepper record.

Monica's Story:

One boring evening couple of years ago, I was channel-surfing when I got to some channel where they were promoting the Beatles "1" CD...I barely knew who the Beatles were at that time, and I thought all the songs sounded so great and the Beatles looked so good...I knew some of the songs, cos we used to have couple of Beatle cassette tapes when I was little, but that was long time ago, and I didn't care about them back then..

Next time I saw the commercial I taped it and played it to my parents, and asked them if they could order that CD for me..My paretns of course knew most of the songs..and they were like: sure, of course we can buy it..but they were also a lot surprised that I liked those old songs(I was 11 yrs old)...

Then one day when I woke up, I went to the kitchen and there it was on the dining table--I was so happy, I was there alone and I couldn't wait to play it..and since I was alone it was pretty loud, too..I got totally crazy--The CD became all mine and I would be playing it all the time everyday! And that's how I got hooked! I could never imagine that some boring evening is completely gonna change my whole life!!!

Norman's Story:

I'm happy when i heard their song.

Lauren's Story:

I was about 10, I think. I was in to all the Hip Hop and Rap crap like most children of the 90's (and 00's) I knew who the Beatles were, sure. But what did I care? I was more worried about the N-Boys or whatever breaking up.

Anyways, the date was Christmas Eve of 2002. One year after our Hari passed on. My dad got me the One Album as one of his presents. I was like "Oh...great. I'll listen to it once so I wont hurt his feelings, then." He wouldn't let me off easy, of course. He played it after we were done opening guests and he made me turn down the sound on my brand new video game.

That isn't where it started precisely, though. I was just as melancholy about the Beatles before I got the CD. But, luckily for me now, my other gift from my father was a Walkman. Never wanting to hurt his feelings, I listened to it on the way to my grandma's to open her presents. Suprisingly...I didn't take off the headphones long after we got to her house. I listened to the whole CD and instantly disregarded Eminem and the Nboys and knew "Whoa. These guys are somethin' else."

So, two years later (I'm almost 13) I'd collected about 9 Beatles CDs, four shirts, and four posters. Sadly, just recently, I lost all of my CD's on an Airplane so I need to spend my Lucky 13 gaining all of my beloveds back. A drag, huh? Oh well.

Morgan's Story (Web site)

hmm... i think the first time i ever relalized the beatles existed was when i saw the episode of the simpsons where lisa sees them go by in the yellow submarine, adn they crash into the statue of queen victoria (funny stuff) anways, i recoggnized them, so i requested that a local radio station play "yellow submarine" during an hour that they take requests. they did, and i fell in love. that christmas, i recieved gift certificated for a music store, went out, and bought "abbey road" greatest purches i ever made. anyways, somehow i got my hands on copies of "AHDN" and "Ywllow Submarine" (the movie), and as soon as i saw George in "AHDN", i was smitten, and admit, i am to this day. my collection of cds grew over time (and is now about five cds away from completion), and i am very proud to say, i have converted about five people to beatles fans. but of course, none fo them are as big of fans as i am... ;)

Maria's Story

Earlier this year, my friend Vanessa was into The Beatles and she asked me to send her a whole bunch of pictures of them online because her web browser wasn't working. So, I started sending her pictures and started to feel an attraction to John Lennon. Then I was watching music videos and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" came on and luckily, I had my tape in the VCR so I recorded it. I kind of forgot about them and then about a month went by until I saw on my satelite, the movie "John Lennon:Imagine". Unforetunatley, I caught the last ten minutes of it. Then imediately after that, I started downloading John's music videos, songs, and pictures. My obsession with John grew into an obsession with the other three Beatles also (although John will always be my favourite). And that's my story. :)

Casey's Story

My dad used to play "Good Day Sunshine" for me to wake up to when I was little. I've loved the Revolver album and everything else about the Beatles ever since. :)

Amy's Story

Well...
My sister Sarah got me hooked on the Fab Four when I was a wee child. A few YEARS (O.o) go by and my sister, Jess got 1 for Christmas. I stole it from her and I've been hooked ever sine ^.^

Cody's Story

hmm... I'd have to say when I first got hooked it would of been this year I had been looking for the movie Help but couldn't find it my mum found A Hard Days Night and I said ok I'll by it. As soon as I watched it I watched the movie like 100 times over. Then I took all my mum's old Beatles cd's she didn't care. Then I bought my self a nice Beatles record. Then for my Birthday I got 4 more Beatles records. Ever since then I have been growing my Beatles haircut, Whereing close like their's, and talk about them constantly. I know the words to all most all their songs. My favorite Beatle is Paul. I am hoping to go to Paul's concert when he comes back to the U.S. in 2005.

Laura's Story

I had always known about The Beatles, I mean, c'mon, who doesn't know The Beatles? But anyways, my story of discovery is very romantic and idealized because I heard In My Life on the radio and was completely transfixed. It was so beautiful. After that, I began to listen to my brother's Revolver CD. And the rest is history.

In eighth grade I became a complete and total Beatlemaniac, falling in love with George hehe. And soon I found one of my friends loved The Beatles the same way! So the two of us were known in all the plays @ school for being complete crazies, singing "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite" 24/7. :-) But more than anything, I feel so thankful that I have my four guys to be the soundtrack to my life. And that's what I believe is a true Beatles fan- it doesn't matter how many t-shirts you have, or how many times you've seen A Hard Day's Night- if you hear a Beatles song on the radio on a bad day and immediately cheer up, you've got something lucky going on.

Jessica's Story

I had always known who the Beatles were and some of their more popular songs growing up, thanks to my mom. But I hadn't really gotten into them because I, too, sadly liked rap music.

Then, two years ago I got a new computer and with it, a program to download music. Since I thought this was so cool, I downloaded every single possible song I could think of. Two of them included "Help" and "A Hard's Day Night".

I loved these songs so much that I was happy when I discovered they were on the CD my dad and I bought my mom for her birthday, the Beatles' One CD. I had lost the CD I burned the songs I downloaded on so decided to listen to that instead. I loved all of them.

Later there was a huge sale on CDs at a store and I decided to buy Revolver and Rubber Soul. I loved them so much too and quickly accumulated tons of Beatles' CDs over that summer. In addition to the copy of One, Revolver, and Rubber Soul, I got Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper's, Let It Be, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, White Album, Anthologies 1-3, Greatest Hits 62-66, Help, and A Hard Day's Night. I listened to each one several times and knew I was in love with the Beatles.

So over the last two years, I've been listening to these albums over and over, reading facts about them online, and saving tons of pictures of them. My friends all think I'm weird for listening to this kind of music, but it's much better than what they listen to, that's for sure!

Leslie's Story

Well, the first time it really clicked was around the time that the movie "I am Sam" came out. I was 11, i think. (i'm now 14 by the way)I heard the song "blackbird" in that movie and I LOVED IT! I looked in the credits to see who sang it: Lennon/McCartney.So, what was wierd was Paul McCartney's "back in the U.S" tour was on and I heard him sing "blackbird" it was love at first site. now my room is covered with posters of the beatles. I have ALL thier albums, and now I'm officialy a BEATLEGEEK. oh! and i'd just like to add that Paul McCartney is indeed my favorite Beatle...Ta!