Beatles 64 Documentary

Grew up on their music.

Still love it.

My oldest sister was coming of age when they started out, so of course I was there too.

I remember their first appearance on Ed Sullivan. I was 3 or 4, but remember that night clearly.

Remember wondering why my kindergarten class wasn't singing Beatles songs.
Remember all the kids at the pool in the summer singing Yellow Submarine.

Good times.

I remember the night John was killed. My Mom called me at college to tell me. When my roommate walked in later and I was in tears, she asked what was wrong and all I said was, "John is dead." She knew who I was talking about.

We spent the summer of 1964 in England visiting relatives. I was 7, my sister 10. All I understood was that older girls were crazy about them, and their image and souvenirs were everywhere. When we came home to the US our friends treated us like royalty for having been to England where the Beatles came from. It's hard to describe to young folks now, how new and spontaneous all that Beatlemania was at the time, after the last few decades of manufactured celebrity and talentless pop stars-of-the-month. They really were game changers.

“She was just 17.. . You know what I mean. . .”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FD3z9VzAE

In 1964 I was 17. We danced to the Beatles at our high school dances. This was in Newport Beach, CA and The Beach Boys were also big then (I did not care for them as much). I had no idea at the time that The Beach Boys performed in England and there was a lot of respect between the two groups. You can learn about this in the 2024 movie “The Beach Boys”, directed by Frank Marshall, a 1964 graduate of my high school (Newport Harbor High School).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31922530/

1964 also brought the Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan show. My family watched this.

https://www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles/