I as a Fan

Since I was a little girl my mother showed me movies, especially musicals. This is how I began to meet The Beatles. Like all people I had heard many of their songs, but didn't give them importance.
But when I saw the movies I started to listening the soundtrack, I loved, and so I discovered the songs of The Beatles and I started getting interested in them.

Many young people, now, think that their songs are "soft " and "cheesy", but I find them full of positive feelings (or not) and with a beautiful lyrics. When you start to listen to all their songs, not just the "hits" or the most popular songs, you realize that there is a Beatles song for every day of your life and every feeling. And that, to me, makes them my favorite band.

I must also say that I feel very identified with their personality; "hippy" and pacifist,  that they had, and I love listen their songs about free love, a Igualt for all ... but also their songs show us the fear of making mistakes, to face the love, of losing what we love ... 

I love The Beatles so much!

Objects

I, as a fan of The Beatles, for long time ago I been listening to all their songs and I've seen all their movies.

But I've also been collecting some diferent objects related to The Beatles. The objects that I have of The Beatles aren't very extraordinary things, but I like it a lot.
 

 

 

 

Now I have: a poster of Abbey Road, Abbey Road t-shirt, pair of earrings, a bag of abbey road, two cups, two Beatles films and the film Across the Universe and some of their CDs and LPS.

I already know that almost everything I have is related  to the image of Abbey Road, and this image is very commercial. But I don't try to find the relics of The Beatles, I agree with anything related to them.

Across The Universe

Across the Universe is a musical that was made in 2007. The reason I write about this film is that all the songs that are sung and interpreted in the movie are covers of songs by the Beatles.
The storyline is very beautiful, and shows us the America of the 60/70 and the fear of young people to war. The protagonist, Jude, a young man of Liverpool (like all members of The Beatles) travels to America to find his father, there he finds new friends and girlfriend, the reason to stay and live there.

In the film, directed by Julie Taymor, you can listen 32 songs by The Beatles. These are: 

· Girl
· Hold Me Tight
· All My Loving
· I Want To Hold Your Hand
· With a Little Help from My Friends
· It Won't Be Long
· I've Just Seen a Face
· Let It Be
· Come Together
· Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
· If I Fell
· I Want You (She's So Heavy)
· Dear Prudence
· Flying (instrumental)
· Blue Jay Way
· I Am The Walrus
· Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
· Because
· Something
· Oh! Darling
· Strawberry Fields Forever
· Revolution
· While My Guitar Gently Weeps
· Across the Universe
· Helter Skelter
· Happiness is a Warm Gun
· A Day in the Life (instrumental)
· Blackbird
· Hey Jude
· Don't Let Me Down
· All You Need Is Love
· Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
 

I love this movie and these versions, so I'd like to leave the videos of some of the songs from the movie. 

  

· Strawberry Fields Forever

· I Want You (She's So Heavy)

· If I Fell

· Because

Songs and Videos

As I said, the most popular songs of the Beatles are:

·         Hey Jude

·         Revolution

·         Yellow Submarine

·         Help!

·         Ticket to Ride

·         Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

·         Here comes the Sun

·         Let it be

·         I Wanna Hold Your Hand

·         Strawberry Fields Forever
·       Yesterday

And as I like so much I thought I show you some of this songs with their videos or pictures.

·         Revolution

·         Hey Jude

·         Help!

·         Yesterday

·         Let it be

The Beatles

The Beatles was a Pop and Rock and Roll music group. It was created in Liverpool in the 60, in 1962 it was published their fist single; Love Me Do.

It was consisted for: Paul McCartney, Jonh Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

This group made ​​such an impact on American society that formed large groups of fans following them to every concert. This phenomenon was described as Beatlemania.

In 1970 the group broke up forever, creating a great desolation for all the fans. But their don’t forget it, and many young people have discovered this group and have become fans.

Although the group didn’t last for a long time The Beatles released a great collection of songs and also created many films. And also take into account that after their separation were created many CD / LPS compilations or memorial collections and all the group members continued their careers alone or with an other group.

Their LPS were:

·         Please Please Me (1963)

·         With the Beatles (1963)

·         A Hard Day's Night (1964)

·         Beatles for Sale (1964)

·         Help! (1965)

·         Rubber Soul (1965)

·         Revolver (1966)

·         Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

·         Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

·         The Beatles (1968)

·         Yellow Submarine (1969)

·         Abbey Road (1969)

·         Let It Be (1970)

 Their films (not documentals or promotional films) were:

·         A Hard Day's Night

·         Help!

·         Magical Mystery Tour

·         Yellow Submarine

·         Let It Be

·         Individual projects

·         Unmade films

And their most popular songs were:

·         Hey Jude

·         Revolution

·         Yellow Submarine

·         Help!

·         Ticket to Ride

·       Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

·         Here comes the Sun

·         Let it be

·         I Wanna Hold Your Hand

·         Strawberry Fields Forever
·       Yesterday

George Harrison

George Harrison was born the 25^th February 1943 in Liverpool. He was a great composer and musician. In The Beatles he was, basically, the voice and the guitar.

He had married twice, the first time with Pattie Boyd (1966-1977) and the second with Olivia Trinidad Arias (1978- 2001).

 With his second wife he had his only son, Dhani, in 1978.

After The Beatles he continued his musical career alone and after he created the group Traveling Wilburys.

He died in Los Àngeles the 29^th November 2001.

Paul McCartney

 

James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool the 18^th June 1942, he had an Irish descent. He was one of the composers, “multi-musician”, but normally he played the bass, and voice of The Beatles.

He wrote his first song, “I Lost My Little Girl”, with Jonh Lennon when he was about 14.

 The 12^th March 1969 he had married with Linda Eastman (Linda McCartney), They had 4 children; Heather, Mary, Stella and James.

After his success with The Beatles Paul continued his musical career alone and later formed the band Wings.

Now he has the Guinness record as the musician and composer most commercially successful of contemporary music, with sixty gold discs and sales of around 100 million copies.

Jonh Lennon

Jonh Lennon was born in Liverpool the 9^th October 1940. He was a composer and a musician, and he was one of the founders of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney were considered the soul of the band. The 20^th March 1969 he had married with Yōko Ono, with her he had his child, Sean, the 9^th October 1975. But Lennon had already had a child, Julian, with another woman and he was born the 8^th April 1963.

Yōko Ono and Lennon where very closer, and a lot of people said that she was the cause of the separation of The Beatles.

In The Beatles he was one of the composers, one of the voices and one guitar.

With her wife he was one of the most important person in the flight encounter the Vietnam war. He composed a lot of songs for the peace, and these became hymns for the world.

Jonh Lennon was killed the 8^th December 1980 in New York. 

Ringo Starr

Richard Henry Parkin Starkey Jr (Ringo Starr) was born in Liverpool the 7^th July 1940. When he was a child he had a lot of serious illness and he past a lot of time in the hospital, that make that he don’t learn equally than the other children.

He wasn’t the first battery of the Beatles, he substituted Pete Best in 1962 for their first contract with a discography.

He plaid the battery in all the LPS of The Beatles, he also was the protagonist of the film A Hard Day’s Night.

Now he had a large musical career playing alone, and he is recognized as one of the best drummers and musician in history. He publishes new albums as Y not, Liverpool 8, Bad Boy, ….