How I Discovered The Beatles (& Paul McCartney)

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[@davidjackson5449]

I got into the Beatles in 1972 when I was 9 when I started playing my parents albums . Apart from jazz records of my Dad and middle of the road Musical sound tracks( often without the real people on cheaper versions of the soundtracks)my parents had original copies of the first 3 Beatles albums . Please Please me, With the Beatles and Hard days night .I started to listen to them over and over again and with my pocket money bought Mary had a Little lamb and then C Moon /Hi Hi Hi singles .I have not stop listening and collecting Beatle related records since to the present day. This meant I managed to get Georges autograph by simply writing to him and by being a member of Pauls Fun club was able to attend Film premiers and even Take it away video shoot getting Paul and George Martins autograph .The Beatles have been a major part of my life .I,m thankful my parents had those 3 albums .Cheers mate

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Wow David that's great you got to go to that video shoot! I love that your first McCartney purchase was Mary Had A Little lamb and it didn't put you off for life! 😉

[@xanderjavier6209]

I guess it's quite off topic but does anybody know a good website to watch new series online ?

[@et2petty]

On Sundays, my family would go to my Grandmother's and stay all day. I was a week away from my 4th birthday, when the Beatles were first on Ed Sullivan Show. I can still remember sitting on the floor and watching. My Mom and all my siblings saw it together. For the next 8 years, the whole neighborhood wanted to resist haircuts.!!!

[@johngill277]

I started off liking Paul when I saw Put it there on The Chart Show, I taped the video off tv and my teacher was a massive fan, she stopped class so we could go into the tv room and watch it,she also gave me the program from the 1989 tour. Anthology got me into Beatles, finally got to see Paul live in Manchester and Liverpool in 2011,2015,2018. I have that love songs album Andrew, I picked it up on a record stall in an old market house in Wakefield in 2005. I also got into Lennon through watching Imagine:John Lennon film with John narrating his life story, which needs a blu ray release.

[@daisynieves1644]

Hi Andrew! I got into The Beatles by watching their cartoons when I was a little girl. Then, my second grade teacher used to play Yellow Submarine in class. I started being their albums in my teens and, I have continued to buy memorbilia ever since. God bless!

[@jltrem]

As someone who was 13 years old when The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and was a teenager during The Beatles performing years I'm always fascinated by younger people's recollection of how they came to discover The Beatles. I consider myself lucky to have lived during the time when a new Beatles album came out and was a cause for celebration. I still remember the Sunday afternoon when sitting on the couch in the home of a girl I had a crush on that I first heard Sgt. Pepper.

[@PeKe999]

Hi Andrew, My introduction to The Beatles happened, thanks to my neighbor. My parents, my brother and I lived in The Netherlands, very, very, very short near the German border. And in the first years of my life I only heard German music. In those days our region was still very much influenced by Germany. Of course we were liberated from the Krauts in 1945, but the older generations were heavy influenced by them, as were my parents. I was born in 1962 and up till 1972 I just heard German music and very rarely a Dutch song. In 1972 I discovered there was more than German music. I heard English music on the Duich radio. The Dutch Top 30. And in the Top30 was a song Hi Hi Hi by Paul Mcartney And Wings In the Top5. Right in the middle of glamrock, The Sweet, Slade, Mud, T.Rex and so on. I liked that song Hi Hi Hi, but Slade was my favourite band at that moment. A year after Hi Hi Hi there was a song Band On The Run. A song I really liked, but still no connection to The Beatles for me. In the meantime I heard some Beatles songs on the Dutch radio, like Hey Jude and Yesterday, as John Lennon's Imagine. I liked them. I cannot remember any George songs, only Give Me Love. The songs Photograph, Oh My My and You're Sixteen appeared in the Top 30 as well. Songs I liked. So. time went on, and in 1976, I listened every Sunday afternoon to the American Top40 by Casey Kasem on the American Forces Network radio. AFN was based in Germany for American soldiers, still serving in Germany. And one Sunday, in the spring or summer, I heard a song called Got To Get You In My Life. Wowwwww.......... what a great song. But still a bit of a glamrock fan I liked Kiss a little more. They were in the American Top40 with Beth and Shout It Out Loud. That same summer some Beatles singles were re-issued in The Netherlands. Hey Jude, Yesterday, Yellow Submarine and so on. About the same time The Rubettes had a hit wit You're The Reason Why, stll a nice song, and the DJ's they all said that this song was heavy influenced by The Beatles. i liked that song and I sang it out loud together with The Rubettes being on the radio. The neighbor of my parents heard me singing and called for me. He said to me that summer evening that he wanted me to hear some good music instead of wasting my time on Top30 music. I said okay, went in his house to his stereo equipment and he dropped the needle: The Beatles' album Beatles For Sale. No Reply came out of the speakers. Wowwwwww. ........ some great stuff and when I saw the cover and the name Beatles I remembered Got To Get You into My Life and yes, ... he had Revolver as well. That was the moment I discovered The Beatles and became a, maybe obsessed, fan. The next day I went to the record store and bought Revolver and because my dad was in a good mood, I could buy another Beatles album. That was The Blue Album 1967-1970. I was hooked. A few weeks later I bought the book, The Beatles, An Illustrated Record by Tony Tyler and Roy Carr, my first Beatles book of many. And so the love for The Beatles began and is still going strong, now in 2020. Discovering The Beatles, was and is still one of the most precious things in my life. It is maybe funny to say that, but for me it is. Let It Be was my wedding song, my divorce song and will be my song when I'm gonna be cremated. So, a life long Beatles. A nice topic, this. Thanks mate. This brings so many good memories. I am writing this with The Rubettes - You're The Reason Why playing again and again.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Wow Pe, what a great story, I smiled all the way through that, some great memories!

[@michaelrice4894]

@ Pe Ke- Hope got this rite; if not,sure you'll understand. Great comment,really like many of our xperiences, a story. Think on his live's; A.'s called u& Ginger flash his d,Bowie subs.- anyhow just wanted tell u&,G.flash ( if u know how let him know this,great,I can't locate a comment fom him ,to reply to) - got this,Great Italian Bowie tribute band's video popped up on my 'KZbin 'feed. They're known as 'Aladdin Insane',& based out o'Rome. The video is them performing Blackstar& Lazarus live,& very well,I say. Believe there's video on their channel of the entire 'Blackstar'album performed live! We know the last music is indeed,complex& just thought you'd like 2 know,if dont. And Mr. .flash as well. 2 of the band members Got back to me,in friendly manner&thanked me for comment. Take care,M

[@jnagarya519]

@@michaelrice4894 Nothing to do with "The Beatles". And the only thing more boring than Bowie are tribute bands.

[@Kieop]

Got to Get You Into My Life was my entry as well.

[@mostynf]

I’m 55. My parents just had the Blue Album and Abbey Road (they didn’t have a huge record collection). So the songs on those albums are the ones I’ve always known - I don’t remember hearing them for the first time any more than I can remember learning to walk or speak, they were just always part of my life. We’d sing Yellow Submarine in music class at school. Because the Beatles are so brilliant melodically I think as a child you get totally hooked in by a lot of the tunes. Then in my teens I got into Bowie, Lou Reed etc because I guess I wanted something that was “my” music that I’d discovered for myself and not my parents music. But everything leads back to the Beatles eventually, so then I started going through their whole back catalogue.

[@thomasdunleavy2378]

I'm 15 years old and I got into the beatles while playing the beatles rockband game. I then started buying the cds from the 1987 and the 2009 collection.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Beatles Rockband was so much fun!

[@jnagarya519]

"The Complete Beatles" is actually excellent -- accurate history. I have the VHS, but would love to have that on DVD/blu-ray.

[@Kieop]

I have the Compleat Beatles on VHS too.

[@philmulliner3913]

I am first generation from 1962 - 63 , collected everything from the red Love me do singles right up to the Japanese McCartney iii. Very grateful to have lived through the era of what is now the modern equal to Beethoven and Bach

[@michaelyoung9909]

I first got into the Beatles in 1974/75 when I first got copies of the Red and Blue albums on cassette.

[@ramilopez6921]

I discovered The Beatles some time around 1974 or 1975 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My Mother introduced my brother and I to The Beatles. We were visiting our Grandparents and our Mother had just sent us to bed just as we were drifting ourselves to sleep she quickly came in and woke us up and said “there’s this music group I want you to see they’re showing them on T.V. My brother and I really wanted to go back to bed “you’ll like them there’s like The Monkees .” The movie was “Help!” we watched it on our Grandmother’s Black and White T.V. and we’ve been fans ever since. My brother and I would later join a Beatles tribute band in early 1981 with some school friends I played “John” and my brother “George” we had some great times.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Brilliant Rami, The Beatles, just like The Monkees! That must have been great fun playing in a Beatles tribute band!

[@ramilopez6921]

It was Andrew. I think if it wasn’t for The Beatles I would have never become a songwriter as well. Andrew have you done a video on your first Beatles album? My first was “THE BEATLES VI” I still have it and it plays well. I really love the sound of The Beatles on vinyl. You should definitely get the red and blue albums in vinyl they sound great.

[@michaelrice4894]

@Rami L, Hey R., happy Sunday to 'ya.How r u doing? Just read ur words to this A.video & wanted reply; our initial experiences hearing Los Beatles was kinda similar man. I was couple yr.s. younger than thee,but was at my grandparents as well.. Didn't get to see 'em on the tele.rightaway ( that had to b sweet); but,after hearing them over the telephone line,via bro.'s call- reckon became fan that first listen ,too.'All those years ago',yeah?? Wow,& you all did tribute band,nice. I kinda learned music from school band&formal lessons. Recently, try'n (A little bit) do some writing& as u probly experience too,the music seems to flow right to me. Isn't that what you guyz call the creative muse? If could hear any ur sounds,that'd b awesome,Rami. I've got this little melody,reckon& wanna write a song bout these great you tube music channels& 2,3 channel hosts like,maybe ,Andrew D.- what u think? All know 4 sure is that it'll b amusing! And believe I'll have to get A.'s permission, & any other channel hosts,before 'song' even left my house. Take care, Mike

[@cliffhughes6010]

I grew up in the 60s and it was the most incredible decade in almost any way you can imagine. Music, politics. science, space travel, mass communication - it was a time of optimism after the relatively recent second World War and rationing and Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Everything was new and exciting and anything seemed possible. And The Beatles were the soundtrack to all that. Their music was stunning to audiences in a way that would be impossible for any other group today. They were at the centre of everything, not just the youth revolution, and they were on the news every day. So there's a lot to be said for hearing each Beatles record as it came out - in context. The Beatles conquered Britain, then America and then the world. They virtually invented modern music and pop culture. What a time to live.

[@realjaxon]

My introduction to The Beatles: I really didn't listen to any music other than when my dad would have the radio on in the car. My parents took the family to see 'A Hard Day's Night' on the big screen of a drive-in theater in 1964 in a town named Visalia, California. I was at the ripe old age of 6. I remember being glued to the movie. I loved how they were having so much fun in it, and the music was fantastic. I didn't want the movie to end. I have to say that it was a mesmerizing moment in my life. I didn't really follow anything about The Beatles after watching the movie, but that was only because I was a 6 year old kid. I picked up on them again when I was about 13. The first 2 albums that I asked my dad to buy for me were the red and blue greatest hits vinyl record albums(which I still have). And now I've been playing catch up in finding their records for my music library, as a band and individually.

[@ste.6026]

Until the release of the red and blue albums my consumption of Beatles was by 45s in my parents collection... The only album we had before that was 'Revolver' mums favourite album though mostly it was my dad that was the Beatle fan... I'm shamed to say as a pre teen I was only interested in early Beatles and quite honestly preferred to listen to Elvis & Cliff.... So at around the age of ten and thanks to Blue & Red quickly became a massive Beatle fan... By the time of Lennon's death I was not only aware of the all the Beatles albums but thanks to the local library was more than familiar with much of the solo careers of John & Paul... George I would get acquainted with at the time of Cloud 9... Never stopped listening to Johns stuff but dropped Paul at 'Pipes of Peace' and did not pick on again for 35 years... Today I listen and enjoy all four Beatles...

[@melissabrown2109]

The 'Revolver' album,a great choice.

[@jnagarya519]

@@melissabrown2109 "Rubber Soul" was the REVOLUTION, and has more emotional substance than "Revolver".

[@Zholobov1]

Great video, Andrew! Brings back some nice memories from my school days, when I was discovering The Beatles' music. For me it all started 35 years ago, in March (or April?) 1985, when I read Hunter Davies's book and wanted to hear with my own ears who were those boys in reality. So when I borrowed a cassete copy of their first LP Please Please Me from a friend of mine, those voices became to life. What really surprised me was how natural and bigger than life they sounded! They just seemed like guys from next door - never like super stars or whatever. So I could immediately relate to them and the next thing I did I took a guitar and started to learn. In the years that followed (1985-1990) I got cassete copies of almost all of their UK albums. I even remember the sequence in which I was discovering them: Please Please Me Beatles For Sale 1962-1966 1967-1970 Love Songs A Hard Day's Night Sgt. Pepper Abbey Road The Beatles Ballads Revolver Yellow Submarine Let It Be Rubber Soul The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour With The Beatles Help! Past Masters And then 5 years later, when I began thinking I've known and heard everything, the Anthology burst in my life 💥💥💥

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Anthology! Still amazes me, I really need to watch that again soon (maybe if I'm confined to the house for the next few weeks it would be a good opportunity!). That's a great memory to remember the order you learned those albums in!

[@Zholobov1]

@@AndrewDixonMusic I happened to translate the 8 series documentary into Russian some 10 years later. What an experience! 👍

[@Beantbeantbeant]

I got into The Beatles when I was 10 (I am 17 now). I was recommended the "kids react to the beatles" video on youtube where they watched the "i am the walrus" video. I clicked on it out of curiosity of the thumbnail and i was totally weirded out and found it brilliant because it sounded unlike anything i had ever heard but it reminded me of monty python films, so the next day i refused to go out shopping with my parents and the first songs i put on were "i want to hold your hand" and "this boy", and i felt like i discovered some sort of alien life. i could not believe this music existed. I began telling everyone "have you heard the beatles?" and when they said "yes" i was like "how come i have not heard their music before?" and felt betrayed nobody told me about them sooner. I had known Yellow Submarine as we had an inflatable chair of it, but i did not know the music, and i also knew who John Lennon was and that he died (in my head i imagined he was kidnapped or something?), but i couldnt have told you a song. They have been my favourite band ever since, with Pink Floyd and The Beach boys following behind.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

That's great! It's funny you should mention I Am The Walrus as being like Monty Python, are you familiar with The Rutles yet? Essentially a Monty Python spin off and arguably their best song is called Cheese & Onions which is a parody of I Am The Walrus!

[@robertsaul234]

My older brother bought a copy of MMT when it came out. We split the cost on the White Album in early '69 when I had not yet turned eight. I saw Let It Be when it came out in a near empty theater and bought the Let It Be single. Most of what I remember from that time was the constant coverage on RnR radio of their breakup. I moved on to groups like Zep and Deep Purple and Sabbath in the 70's. A second wave a Beatlemania started in the states around '76. I started buying up their catalog, together and solo and I haven't stopped. Still haven't fully recovered from December 8, 1980.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Brilliant, memories of the actual time, that's something I can never have, well, for The Beatles anyway. McCartney yes.

[@robertsaul234]

@@AndrewDixonMusicOn the plus side, you're not 58 years old. Another memory was hearing All Things Must Pass in its entirety the day it was released on the radio.

[@jnagarya519]

@@robertsaul234 In the US, Top 40 AM radio played every track on whatever their new LP release, so the LPs were typically #1 on BOTH LP and SINGLES charts.

[@robertsaul234]

@@jnagarya519 Yes, radio was so much different then.

[@jnagarya519]

@@robertsaul234 I recall one "Rolling Stones" LP making the singles chart -- but only "The Beatles" hit #1 on BOTH LP and Singles charts, and repeatedly. Radio really was so much different then -- In 1968, during the two weeks before the "White" LP was released, the FM station played the entire album, with no commercials, every week night, for those two weeks. And on those weekends, it was all "Beatles" all the time. And when John was murdered, all other programming was scrapped, and it was only "Beatles". As said, "The Beatles" were the soundtrack for the world.

[@jnagarya519]

I first heard "The Beatles" while in high school. After 11:00 pm the local radio stations reduced their power, so I was able, with a typical table radio, to pick up stations in NY and Chicago. VeeJay Records was in Chicago, and I first heard "The Beatles" on a Chicago station in October, 1963. They, of course, went nowhere. Locally there was an all-night program on the radio, so I listened to that, and shortly -- before December, 1963 -- the DJ began playing, "I Want to hold Your Hand". He began getting requests for it from listeners, so he began playing that more, and eventually began playing what he said was the "B"-side: "I Saw Her Standing There," beginning with, "One-two-three-FAH!" -- which, of course, I learned much later, was actually from the VeeJay LP. And I still remember him describe "The Beatles" as "the latest thing in England," and saying, "I predict these guys will never go anywhere." Of interest is that "I Want to Hold your Hand," on a New York station, was "bubbling under" the Top 40 on December 31st. The next day, January 1st, it was #1. I can't imagine not knowing anything about "The Beatles," and only discovering them, bit by bit, as a teenager. As I lived through that era, "The Beatles" were the soundtrack for the world. During the 1970s I had a friend from Chile -- who was a HUGE "Beatles" fan. And slowly I learned that there were "Beatles" LPs in such as Brazil. Portugal. Italy. Saw them, finally, in stores, from Japan. It was not in all particulars the best of times. But "The Beatles" part of it was grand. Thank you, UK -- and especially Liddypool!

[@mez5590]

I was 4 and my older sister, and the entire U.S., were tuned into the Ed Sullivan Show. I was instantly hooked…

[@beatlebrad5339]

Hi Andrew . This video was just the best . I did like to here about how you got in to the Beatles !!! And James is a great guy and he is on my channel as well . You parents sure were a lot cooler then mine lol . I do live all of the great stories that you told wow just great and the one about you winning the game . Wow good on you !!!! It is great you and I are both are big fans of Paul .I do like all of the unknown people in the Beatles just great mate . This was just a great story my friend thank you so much for the walk down memory lane !!!! And be safe out there ok with this wild virus going around !!! Cheere mate .

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks Brad, you stay safe too! have you also done a similar "how I got in to" video? I'd like to see it if you have.

[@beatlebrad5339]

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[@beatlebrad5339]

You know …. I don't think so but I do think it just might be a great video to do . On how I got in to the Beatles !!! Great .

[@melissabrown2109]

I first discovered The Beatles by accident when I was ten years old in 1982,looking through my parents' record collection.They had "With The Beatles",which I looked at with interest,thinking they were brothers because they looked alike on that album cover. I didn't really start listening to them though until I was a teenager.Ever since then,they have been my favourite group and always will be.My favourite Beatle has always been George Harrison,though,having been taken by him since his 1987 comeback album, "Cloud Nine".

[@jedikiah1541]

Yours is a similar story to mine. My dad bought an original copy of the Revolver album from a car boot sale in around 1979, and I couldn't stop playing it. I was 12 at the time. Next, I watched The Beatles Help! movie on tv Christmas 1979. I then bought the Help! album, and then proceeded to buy all the rest (singles and albums) during 1980. By the time of John's death I pretty much knew every one of their songs. His death hit me very hard, and it is something I have never truly got over. I remember being unaware of his death on the day it was announced, and heard someone at school discussing him. I thought it was great they were showing interest, thinking it was connected to his new single "(Just Like) Starting Over". I was devastated when shortly after another pupil revealed the truth, and I went home dinnertime and watched the news, shaking all over. I switch on radio one, and Paul Burnett was in tears.

[@jnagarya519]

I became a writer, in large part because of John. I've never been hit as hard by a loss as that one.

[@arlosdad]

I became a fan of The Beatles when I saw them on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' in January 1963.

[@terrymann1341]

It was 1977 when I bunked off from school with my mate Sean and went to his house. His Dad had a huge record collection and we sat around playing these records, this was when I heard Paperback writer for the first time in full and it blew my mind. I'd heard it before on the telly on a sunday night because it was the theme tune to the book programme hosted by melvyn bragg on BBC1 that my Mum loved to watch. The Beatles had always been around our house, my mum quite liked them and I had an older Brother and Sister who were also fans, but I, at this point was a bit young to be bothering with music. It went from there really Got heavily into them when I got SGT Pepper and Beatles Oldies on cassette for my birthday, that was it I wanted to hear more.. and the rest as they say is hysterical.......

[@antonioszytulskyj8165]

I discovered them in 1963, Just browsing through "the Beatles magazine". During the time of "from me to you" April 63 and "she loves you", August same year and been a fan ever since. Almost 57 years. And always will be.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

What a great time to have been enjoying the ride!!

[@peterdockrill9653]

how I discovered the Beatles was during the mid 90s I was 35 and really didn't think that much of them ,my sister worked in Japan and she bought me back one of the earliest sony mp3 players,I'd never actually seen one before but there were just two albums recorded on it rubber soul and revolver and I've been hooked on their music ever since.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Hi Peter, that's interesting if you were 35 in mid 90s so 15 in mid 70s, I know quite a lot of people same age as you who never liked The Beatles, I guess you're right on that age where the teenagers of the time would have been in to the newer bands, and with The Beatles having split up probably seemed a bit old fashioned. Is that how it was for you?

[@melissabrown2109]

Love that "All The Best" CD compilation.

[@tyronewhitehead3123]

Watched this and thought about the Beatles music and Paul. They where allways with my family when I was growing up I’m so pleased for you you sound so excited you have s real knack of drawing in people keep up the good work 🙏

[@mvmmotovlogmusic2815]

Hello Andrew. Your story shines a light on The Beatles' exponential growth. There is much to be said about The Beatles (who I consider to be the 20th Century's most influential creative force), but the fact they were able to break out of their money making pop machine cage, into a world of experimental, serious, brilliant music, is what I give them the most credit for. My Beatles story is this: 1977-8 in New York there was a Broadway show called Beatlemania. The TV commercials played the look-a-like Broadway show musicians doing excerpts of We Can Work It Out, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Revolution (single versions). THAT WAS IT. I was 13 years old and my life changed. be well. mVm

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks! Did you ever get to see the show? That show was later transferred to London and from that came our Bootleg Beatles tribute band that are still going strong today!

[@nowhereman6496]

Nice memories. I grew up on my older brothers Beatle albums, mostly, the Red and Blue comps. Then, they started buying me albums for christmas around 77. Still have the picture discs of Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper that they bought me. My first Macca album that made me a fan was Back to the Egg. The first Macca album I bought with my own money that I earned from my first job was Ram. The first cd I ever bought was Paul's Press to Play. Nice mention of "The Complete Beatles". It is a great documentary. Love Malcolm MacDowells narration. I actually prefer it to the anthology.

[@MrMargo48]

Great vid Andrew. Bizarrely enough, my obsession started when I hit 30 (5 years ago... ish). I liked the beatles, I was very aware of all their big hits and I knew a fair amount of the early solo stuff too. My brothers had the please please me and help! (albums) on CD and Id say I've been a fan since my teens but, for some reason, the 'eight days a week' film gripped me and turned my fondness into adoration. Any thoughts as to why that might be? Loving your content, excited to hear your thoughts on the get back trailer!

[@brandonjarvis1775]

Brilliant video ....I can't believe it nearly all of what you have said happen roughly the same as yourself 'Once apon a long ago' and 'All the best' (on tape) was my beginning with Paul and then 'Flowers in the dirt' wow...and then The Beatles and all the rest ...I'm 50 now but at the time 1989 I was looked at for being a bit odd as everyone at the time was into 'rave music' ....but to be honest I'm glad to be odd if it means having Paul and The Beatles music in my life....great work looking forward to your next video👍

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks Brandon, same here that none of my friends were in to The Beatles, it was something I had to do very much on my own!

[@mattgaskell945]

It was listening to my Mum’s original copy of A Hard Days Night that got me into The Beatles. I was only about 7 or 8 but it totally amazed me. It started a huge obsession. It was the Beatles singles that were released 20 years later from 1982 starting with Love me Do that got me buying their records. I bought Tug of War and Pipes of Peace LPs and everything ever since. I remember The Complete Beatles on VHS as well!

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

I wish I had first hand memories of Tug Of War and Pipes Of Peace (apart from the title track being a big thing for me) but they passed me by completely.

[@mattgaskell945]

@@AndrewDixonMusic Got the Tug of War super deluxe today. One or two deals to be had on Amazon. Some of the boxes are mega expensive now. It’s a great box and a real treat to own!

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

Great video Andrew, really enjoyed it. I remember that '20 Years Ago Today' video. 'The Compleat Beatles' was my proper introduction to the band's history. Sad that Paul wants it out of circulation (but typical!) There was a very similar documentary made not long after about the Stones which I also devoured (think it was called 'The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones?'). You beat me by one year hearing the White Album (I got it for Crimbo in 1990). It's curious you were so late getting to Revolver though as that was always my absolute foundational text for the Beatles - heard it before anything else. It's interesting that given you were already glued to the Top 40 in 1980 you didn't notice the song Coming Up, what with that video and everything!

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Yep, Coming Up, Tug Of War, Press To Play, No More Lonely Nights, all completely passed me by! I bought Revolver on vinyl also late 89, probably only knew Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby and Here There & Everywhere beforehand. When I asked my mum at the time why she hadn't bought Revolver in the 60s, her answer baffled me, was clearly wrong but I never figured why she thought this "It was a limited edition release and we missed out" !!???

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

I might have an answer on the "why my parents didn't buy Revolver and thought it was limited". Just been speaking to my Dad, he called me after seeing this video, and told that they bought Rubber Soul while on holiday in Scotland soon after release as it wasn't available to buy at home (in Bridlington). Suggests to me that it was similar with Revolver and maybe Bridlington just generally didn't stock many Beatles records, leading people to think they weren't widespread releases !

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

@@AndrewDixonMusic Fantastic. I love the idea of blaming Bridlington.

[@fdsuperstar2547]

Got into Beatles in 1974 over a friends house as his mom was playing disc 1 of red album. I knew a lot of those songs as my mom always had top 40 radio on + I used to watch Beatles cartoons as a kid. Imagine my surprise when she put on disc 2. Completely amazed that all those songs were from one group. That’s nothing my friend said as he played me songs off the blue album. I knew many of them. After that, never looked back collecting Beatles & solo records.

[@kentlewis987]

It was the summer of 1974...I was 13 years old when I heard “Band on the Run” on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 while visiting my cousin. It blew my mind...this was THE moment that my musical tastes differentiated from what I had heard from my family or on tv. At that moment the comic book industry took a big hit because most of my allowance started going toward Beatles related records. It was a huge year for the Beatles’ solo careers...in December they became the first band to have all of their former members to have simultaneous top 40 solo hits. I became a huge fan of all of them individually as well as collectively so I often describe myself as a back door Beatles fan. Prior to that I knew a little about them mostly through the media. The first actual Beatles recordings I remember hearing were “Penny Lane” & “Strawberry Fields Forever” because my aforementioned cousin had the 45. My mom had an LP with “My Bonnie” in the style they recorded it in but I’m not sure if it was actually their version. I had also seen their cartoon & had heard a cover version of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” on the Munsters tv show. The first time I was really aware of Paul was on his tv special, James Paul McCartney. I remember my sister explaining to me who he & Linda were. It was probably not long after that when I heard “Live & Let Die” on the radio. I remember I really liked it but it was that fateful day at my cousin’s that I was truly hooked. I find it ironic that a lot of people pigeonhole Paul as the poppy crooner because it was his rockers that initially made him my favorite.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Great memories!

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

Hi Andrew, I'm only halfway through the video and have to break off but will be back later. Really enjoying it, and thanks for the shout-out. Before I forget, the thing about Paul counting his money in his cabin made me laugh, as in the late seventies I got this bizarre notion that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were really poor and lived in an old shack with only one chair between them. God knows where that came from. Ironically, the house that Paul had built for his family in the early eighties actually was really small....not quite a cabin but probably not far off. I think his kids shared bedrooms etc. Back later! (btw my last but one video has Beatle-related nonsense in it).

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Hi James, I knew I'd get round to this eventually 🙂👍 That's amazing John & Yoko living in a shack with 1 chair, where do we get these ideas from as kids!!??

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

@@AndrewDixonMusic I think it was because my mum told me that Paul was really rich because he kept having hit records, whereas John hadn't had a hit record in years. So from that we get to him and Yoko sharing a broken chair in a rain-sodden old shack.

[@raymondporter]

That was a great story of how you got into the Beatles and Paul, I really enjoyed it. It reminded me a bit of that Brian Epstein book "How I got into John Lennon"

[@karenjones1543]

I was 7 years ago when I first heard The Beatles. This was 1962. I consider myself incredibly lucky that I was there from the beginning. You have a far greater collection than I though.

[@Kieop]

My parents had Love Songs too! They also had Rock and Roll Music, US Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road. That was it. But it was enough to make me a fan. I was really drawn to the shiny silver cover of Rock and Roll Music. It was the late 70s and Got to Get You into My Life sounded so fresh. It was my favourite. Of course Paul himself was on the radio constantly with Silly Love Songs and Wings Over America. The very first song I can remember hearing on the radio was Elton John's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, but I didn't know it was a Beatles song. I didn't really become aware of them as individuals until the 80s. I was primed to love Paul b/c I knew his music from the radio, but John was already dead before I knew who he was. I didn't know he had died until 1984 when Julian's album came out. But I didn't really get into The Beatles until 1986 when I was 12. The Monkees were back on TV. And somehow I just got obsessed with The Beatles that year (I already liked Paul b/c of his collabs with MJ). I got the Compleat Beatles on VHS. I watched It Was Twenty Years Ago Today on TV in 1987. I read every book I could find at the library. Press to Play was the first album I bought with my own money. I also got All the Best and was pleased to realize that I knew most of the songs already. I started buying all the records I could find on vinyl. I got Revolver for Xmas. Then I saw the tribute band Beatlemania. It was my first concert. The height of my Beatle obsession was 1986-1989.

[@DanJohnson]

My literal earliest memory is sat looking at the back of Hard Days Night record on my mums knee and my mum saying pointing at John saying that's that who who has died. I was 4 in 1980. I still have the record, a treasured item. So lucky that I was raised in a household where as kids all we ever listened to was the Beatles, ABBA and Adam & the Ants!

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks Dan. Adam & The Ants, my first huge band! They meant so much to me in 81/82 !

[@DanJohnson]

@@AndrewDixonMusic Dirk Wears White Sox is still one of my favourite all time records! Was lucky enough to see him do that album in Hammersmith a few years ago

[@Kieop]

Even though I loved The Beatles music, I didn't learn that John had died until 1984 when Julian's album came out.

[@jamesdickinson1397]

I very much liked this video you did. It is so similar to my story. In about 1972-73 I started to listen to music more on the radio here in California. I was 12-13 then and mostly just cared about sports like baseball, football and basketball and music was just something that was on the radio. I heard Uncle Albert by Paul on the radio and I thought it was a Beatles song. To this day I still think it is the most Beatles sounding song by any of the solo Beatles. Then I heard Jet and again I thought it was a Beatles song. That Paul voice I guess did it for me. Anyway, my intro to the Beatles was the 8 track tape of the Hey Jude album in about 1972 and then in 1973-74 got the 8 tracks of the red and blue albums (1962-66 and 1967-70) and with those I was hooked. Next up my first records were All Things Must Pass I got for Christmas from my aunt (I would not have bought that one myself but it was a gift and I tried to enjoy it) also from that same aunt she gave me Yellow Submarine (yet another I would have not got). The following Christmas she gave me Concert for Bangladesh, yet another I would have passed on until I was older. I still love my aunt for those early records. The next thing that changed my life was Band on The Run and I was off and running in 1974 and have never looked back (I also got Pink Floyd about the same time and that is a whole different story for another day). By 1976 I had just about every Beatles and solo Apple 45 singles and a few more albums. When I got my own car and a job at age 16 i was unstoppable when I found the used record stores in Sacramento. I got the White Album around 1976 and I too was blown away by listening to that over and over. It is my most played of all the Beatles related stuff. I had been tapping the songs off the top 40 shows on Sunday as well. Those early teen days when I look back were the best when I was discovering the greatest rock band ever (and music in general). I do remember being very sad when I learned they had split up. I think maybe I was the last person on earth to find out, LOL. And I was crushed when two days before my 21st birthday John was killed. It was a very sad time for me. Well as you can see my story is similar to yours with me finding the Beatles 2-3 years after they split and learning to love them after the fact. I like to say that I had my very own Beatlemania in 1974-76 period exactly 10 years after the real one. The Anthology I also went crazy for it buying all formats of the music, the VHS tapes and later the DVD box plus the huge book. Those were good times in the mid 1990s as well. Love your videos and keep making them. Take care.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks James, great memories, and welll done to your Aunt for the great introductions!

[@Kieop]

Your aunt was obviously trying to make you a George fan! :D

[@richardcooke460]

Hi Andrew. Thanks for all your excellent work on your channel. I first got into the Beatles after John was murdered. My recollection is that apart from the initial news and reaction to that awful event there was really very little info out there about them. I'd always heard stories about them in my village (Byfleet) which is only half a mile from St Georges Hill where John and Ringo lived. My parents house looks onto St. Georges Hill so I'm always reminded of the local Beatles history in Byfleet. In fact Ringo did the final scene of his Stop And Smell The Roses video down my street. You'll see me as as a 13/14 yo on the video lined up at the end. Anyway, like you, I found it difficult to get any information about The Beatles as there was no Internet and they hadn't been together for so long. The first albums I bought were Love Songs, All Things Must Pass and the White Album. Apart from that I tended to wait for new material while still buying up as many group and solo albums. Lastly, while I was this goofy Beatles fan at school, I had to keep it quiet due to peer pressure from other kids into the new bands of the time.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Great history you have there, and appearing in a Ringo video, nice!

[@ChromeDestiny]

I had a similar situation, my mom had a small Beatles collection. She had Long Tall Sally, not the UK EP but a Canadian LP with a similar track listing to the US release The Beatles Second Album as well as Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour and I discovered all that in the late 80's. My sister liked some of Paul's songs from the late 80's especially My Brave Face. Also when I was a kid I had a tape called The Chipmunks Go to the Movies and it had a cover of A Hard Day's Night and I loved that track. My sister said if you like that you should hear the original version by The Beatles. At the same time the Imagine film got released on video, George had his big comeback and all The Beatles UK album reissues arrived on CD and a library near me had a great selection of Beatles records, tapes books and videos and it all really connected with me. Then in the early 90's I found a few books that helped me learn and explore The Beatles' discography, Ted Greenwald's The Beatles Companion which was like having a print version of The Beatles' Wikipedia page, The Beatles Illustrated Record which let me see the full size album art for all the UK releases and Tim Riley's Tell Me Why which was a musical analysis of the UK albums and as a plus those books had stuff about the solo years as well which was helpful cause the Imagine documentary got me into John's solo stuff in a big way too. Another lucky break was that at that time there was a department store near me that had all the UK, US and Canadian Beatles releases cheaply on cassette.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Fun memories! Yes that Imagine film I probably should have talked about in this video, that was my big intro to John's solo career, I bought that on video probably in about 1990 and watched that time and again, great film!

[@NeatBeatZone]

haha you left me breathless there bud. nice vid. i felt your passion 😀 you just liked my other comment as I write this 😀

[@michaelrice4894]

Wow Andrew, Thanx 4 sharin ' such a cool,personal story with us. So,reckon we were both 'children' of le 70's, as is common saying round here.Thing is, u were probly a wee lad then& I was into my second decade! Ha. 1st, like comment thing,two u shared, Then,I'll tell u 1 big,major thing fr.my life; otherwise it can end up as a 'Long& Winding Rd.' ,as I cud 'scribe quite a lot,as in perhaps,a short story.How very nice growin 'up with parents, that were also fans! Mine were to an extent; but as of ,'Sgt.Pepper' & after- not so much. Think they appreciated the early rock& rockabilly,the most. For 1st time,saw 'Love Song's lp. on golden,yellow vinyl- maybe you'll get it& this guy didn't even know there had been a video game ever made of'Broadstreet '- very cool. And I just viewed that doc.'Complete Beatles ' 4,5 yr.s ago& Loved it!! Dubbed it to DVD, soon as I could. If u ever want somethin' like that sent across the pond- we cud try. My primary concern wud b the s.&h.cost,as it's really gone up domestically, since 2018. So ,check this out. Was over visiting grandparents,as wee lad myself& older brother called & asked speak to me on those real, old style fones fr.64' think& he said ,now listen to my new record,Mike, really try & listen, cause I think they're gonna be Big. So he proceeds to play me the original (what else) single of 'She loves you' over tele.& even at my young age knew really liked,& they became my #1band shortly after,& remain so in 2020. Take care, M

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

It was a compilation album called ‘The Beatles Ballads’ that got me hooked. An amazing set of songs. From memory it started with Yesterday then Norwegian wood, then ‘do you want to know a secret’? It also had Hey Jude and She’s leaving home on it, songs that blew my mind. I was yet to have a girlfriend at the time and I remember thinking I can’t wait to experience the love sentiments they were expressing in the songs! 😊

[@The_Soundrops]

Great stories! I grew up in totally different reality, I was just 13 when the communist era - at least theoretically - ended in Poland. But still there are several similarities in our stories. For example, I can definitely remember watching the It Was 20 Years Ago Today documentary, it was aired on Polish TV (there were only 2 channels back then, so it was kinda miraculous). The Compleat Beatles was also my first Beatles video cassette, and I also remember the Anthology TV special as somewhat of a peak of my Beatles fandom. My Dad had the (almost) entire Beatles discography taped from the radio onto his reel-to-reel tapes. I was 10-11 years old when I claimed this music as my own, too. I got so hooked on The Beatles that my parents grew uneasy and they started rationing the listening hours to me, all in vain, as when I couldn't listen to the actual music, I would play it in my head or sing the songs under my breath. My Dad preferred the early albums, but I can vividly recall the moment I first listened to Sgt. Pepper - I could instantly feel that THIS was MY music, and it was this album which made me a lifelong classic rock fan(atic). My Dad hated two Beatles songs, he erased them from the tapes, and I only discovered them years later, these were Revolution No.9 and - would you believe it? - I'm Down. I also remember hearing Bad Boy on the radio one day - my parents were mocking me "why do you need to listen to this show, you know all the songs anyway!", and they were wrong :) For my 12th birthday my parents let me buy two cassettes - I bought Revolver and Rubber Soul, and these were my first stereo Sony Walkman experiences with the headphones (Dad's tapes featured mono versions). The rest is history. Another "Sgt. Pepper moment" involves another band. My first best friend, who lived one floor below, had a large vinyl collection belonging to his dad, and he showed me "Meddle" by Pink Floyd, as its opening track was featured as a jingle in a TV info show. But then I heard "A Pillow of Winds" - which my friend dismissed as "stupid" - and this moment probably made me a songwriter :) Gerard

[@spinynorman8217]

Great story, very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@scally1969]

Brilliant tale there Andrew. Obviously being a scouser, The Beatles appeared on my radar quite young. I'm 50 and received the two volumes of Rock'n'Roll music (1976) on the budget Music For Pleasure label, for my birthday in about 79. From the first track Twist and Shout to Get Back, some 28 tracks later I was in heaven. All I knew was, that I wanted a guitar and to make that noise In short time I acquired one and played it till "I had blistered on my fingers." But like yourself, their music never quite fitted with the music I was listening to elsewhere. It was like a secret love; not to mention the Beatle curse in Liverpool (where everytime you play a guitar in a band, someone asks " who do you think ya are The Beatles?") But over the years I collected the albums, the books, the films, even struck up friendships with guys from other contemporary Merseybeat groups of pre fame Beatles. It's a love affair that's never dimmed. There's a Beatles song for every time, every mood. On my 13th birthday 5th October 1982 they re-released Love Me Do. I thought it was for me, naively not knowing that was its 20th anniversary lol. It's hard to believe that 2 of my primary schools old boys (Lennon and Harrison) went on with McCartney and Starr to change the world. Fairy tale stuff. Cheers Andrew.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Beautiful story you've got Scally! Must be hard avoiding them in Liverpool for those who don't like them (e.g. weirdos!)

[@scally1969]

@@AndrewDixonMusic I live in Ireland these days Andrew. But sadly for years as I grew up Liverpool's elders in the council etc really didn't reckon The Beatles much. The first Beatles museum (Beatle City) kinda died in the mid 80's after a short lifespan. Now it seems the city is finally giving the lads the credit they are due. Personally I would like to see a museum dedicated to the Merseybeat era. Over 300 groups playing in Liverpool weekly, of which The Beatles were top of the tree. That for me was a unique time in musical history that deserves celebrating

[@jackx.cassway]

I got into music when I first saw the Help movie as a 1 year old.

[@gerardjoseph17]

Really interesting watching and listening to this video...got Me thinking back to My Beatles experiences and what prompted My decisions on musical interests after the Beatles split. But heh, 51 years later, and the Beatles are still sure fire going strong while I feel for the younger generations that came after us baby boomers but My friend had an original she loves you / I'll Get You 45 on the swan label....My first Beatles pictured sleeve 45 on the Capitol swirl label was I'll Cry Instead / Happy just to Dance with You. First seen the Beatles on Ed Sullivan back in Feb of 1964 from New York, then seen them on TV down in Miami Beach. Went to see Hard Days Night & Help in the theaters. Have fun memories of seeing Yellow Submarine with My best Beatles buddy Tim, he was an ardent Lennon fan. We both had various odd 45's in our collections... My 2 favs that I cherished over the years were the last Capitol single Lady Madonna / Inner Light, and then the first apple 45 released here in the States - Hey Jude. The next thing you know the years had gone by it was May 1970 and had just began buying Beatle albums and My 1st was Let it Be - red Apple label, United Artist logo. Thought at the time in My early teens that this was a new Beatles album, did not realize it was their final studio album as a band. The rest is history as like most, have quite the collection of Beatles related items...vinyl records, 45s, cds, cassettes, had at one time a few 8 track tapes, posters, books, movies. In the solo years I felt Lennon was on an angry binge with Cold Turkey, Instant Karma and Power to the People, felt he gained something back with Stand by Me, and then was the John Lennon we all really came to know during the Beatle years when he released Double Fantasy. To Me personally John was showing his Across the Universe side, with Woman, Starting Over, I'm Stepping Out, Watching the Wheels, and Nobody Told Me. When John was murdered My friend Tim was just stunned with grief, he shut himself into his basement and had candles with Lennon music playing constantly. All I could do to console him was mention...this too shall pass. I ventured more towards McCartney musically, people still try and argue that John was the better writer etc., but since in the late 1960s he lost much with his heroine episodes,and those albums like Two Virgins, and all the nonsense of moaning and screaming - that was not music, it was pathetic simply put. Yes Paul did a few political numbers like Hi Hi Hi and Give Ireland back to the Irish, but he continued growing musically. I have a few ringo singles, and a few of George's but mainly since the Ringo album, I was no longer interested in accumulating Beatle solo albums after Lennons Double Fantasy, and Paul's Trippin the Live Fantastic. Though now I had added the Concert for Bangladesh dvd & cd sets, picked up George's All Things Must Pass remastered cd , and have various McCartney & Wings albums and cds. Yes I did get Johns Milk & Honey. Have a few hits collections of Paul's & Johns but don't play them much. I'm happy to have experienced the 60s and 70s in My youth, and 52 years later I now get to relive and truly enjoy the Beatles once again with the special edition releases of My personal favorite Beatles album... Let it Be, and then next month we will all be immersed and mesmerized watching the Get Back documentary come November.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks Gerard, some great memories there!

[@jnagarya519]

I have most of the Capitol 45s (not those with songs already on LPS), with picture sleeves, through to the last Apple 45s, plus a few solos after that. Still have first releases of at the very least "The Beatles"/"White" LP. Too many to list, actually.

[@thetrevorosborne]

Lovely stories Andrew

[@melissabrown2109]

You have good taste,with the "Yellow Submarine" mug.

[@andrewbowman4611]

I got into the Beatles much the same as you, although via slightly more circuitous route. Music was always in the house growing up, and I specifically remember a lot of 60s music, and in particular a series of now horribly-tainted compilations called Savile's Time Travels, which were mainly played in the car. It's through these I fell in love with 60s music. In particular, the Kinks and the Monkees. Meanwhile, thanks to a number of 10p bundles of 7" singles from Our Price, I'd heard Wings sings like Mary Had a Little Lamb and C Moon. I'd also heard Pipes of Peace and seen the video by this point, but I hadn't made the connection at that point. In fact, I only knew Ringo from Thomas the Tank Engine! Two things stand out: one is hearing Paperback Writer for the first time, and thinking how much it sounded like the Monkees, and my dad giving me his copy of the Rock 'n' Roll Music compilation. Well, that was it; I listened to all my dad's albums of the Beatles, plus some solo stuff he had (but no McCartney!). Like you, I picked up All the Best! later and that was that. I've been a Beatles obsessive - some might say bore - for over 30 years now, and I've loved every minute of it; I even realised my mistake about the Monkees!

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

I love The Monkees! Never thought about Paperback Writer before but I suppose that guitar intro could be like an overdriven version of Last Train To Clarksville! "Savile's Time Travels" 😳

[@BeatleDustino]

I know I’m a little late to replying to this, but it is funny how similar our love for The Beatles started. My discovery of them happened in the mid-90’s however. I was very aware of them, but never gave them much of a listen in my younger years. My parents had a decent vinyl collection and then I’d often listen to The Beach Boys on that. In our car we always had the “oldies” station on and this music really spoke to me. I started getting into music more of my time, and funnily got into Boyz II Men. They covered Yesterday on that album and I found it fascinating. My parents would tell me “that’s a Beatles song”, and I started exploring them more based on that. My parents had on cassette the Blue Album and Abbey Road, which I started to heavily listen to. They also had on vinyl (US albums) The Early Beatles, Hey Jude, and again Abbey Road. Plus a classical cover album of their music and I started listening to all of that. Eventually I started buying up their CD’s for myself starting with Past Masters vol 2, and eventually the rest of their albums. My biggest new release of theirs that I purchased right away was Live at the BBC. I look back and am shocked how much my younger self took to that particular album so much, but it really made me appreciate their full career. Then of course Anthology solidified my love of them. Pretty much been listening to them ever since. Now really exploring their solo careers too. Peace & Love

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Great story! And really highlights why I like their to be cover versions from all sorts of people/bands. If I'm honest Boys II Men are not my kind of thing at all, and part of me might react with "Oh no Boys II Men have covered Yesterday, why??!?" but then, as a result of that, you, and maybe others, have dug a little deeper and seen where it's come from and that's sent you down this incredible Beatles journey!

[@BeatleDustino]

I’m not that into Boyz II Men that much now. My music preferences changed pretty quickly at that point of my life discovering The Beatles, funnily through them. It was a different time, environment and all for me then. I grew up on a US Air Force base and grew up with kids from all over the world. At that time everyone my age on that base was listening to that R&B/pop/hip hop scene of the late 80’s early 90’s. But once I discovered The Beatles I never looked back. My soundtrack since has been them, their solo careers, Beach Boys making a resurgence, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and now looking back realizing how great a period in rock I grew up with in the 90’s with the”grunge” scene.

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

Hi Andrew. I am using this link as your title is appropriate in sharing my thoughts which is basically very similar to the story you shared on you Paul or nothing first broadcast. I'm guessing by your comments (not your appearance) that you must be about 51 years old (give or take a year). What I found interesting is how similar your discoveries of McCartney and the Beatles were to my own. I too, came to discover Paul first by buying All the Best on cassette. Then out came Flowers and I became hooked. I was 19 when it came out and like you have a very nostalgic (perhaps not very objective) view of that album. Definitely in my top five still. Then the doco was released and wow I watched it over and over (again just like you did). From then I could buy any of Paul's early releases very very cheap from second hand record shops (remember them?) and go home and play them straight away. Fortunately I got Ram first and that too got me greatly inspired to check out all his stuff. I remember my father playing Venus and Mars on the car stereo and like so many we had the Beatles compilation album The Essential Beatles containing 16 songs and I think was only an Australian release (albeit a very very popular one). So then I got into Venus and Mars and the journey never ever stopped. Again like you being about 19/20 all the other university students weren't listening to FITD but the more supposedly cooler bands. I would buy anything with McCartney and spend hours in record shops looking for rarities. This was before ebay. In 1988 you couldn't even order Press to Play from a regular music store! So I found listening to your story very relatable. Your knowledge is far superior to mine though. So really we both started our Paul journey around a very close period ('86 for you and '87 for me) and this I found very interesting as Paul was not commercially or even critically really very well thought of at that time. Thanks for listening. I am now going to watch your Part 2 of the discussion. Cheers from down under.

[@nielsbie8922]

I never got to appreciate Within You and Without You

[@apukdcfc76]

Hi Andrew, I'm also in the UK and probably got into the Beatles thanks to Oasis in the 90s. I'd heard the Beatles before that but they didn't really connect with me as I was always into the latest music and also recorded the top 40! 😂👍🏻 I remember seeing the film Ferris Buellers Day Off and loving the version of twist and shout they used. And a friend had the Red and Blue Albums which I borrowed and remember preffering the Blue Album. But I think it was during the mid 90s around the Britpop era that I got more into the Beatles and discovered the individual albums and watched the Anthology. I remember being really excited to hear Free as a Bird and Real Love and watch the whole TV series. Later I got more into Video Games but remember being excited for the Beatles Rock Band game which I think is still amazing.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Britpop was definitely a big starting point for many, perfect timing for Anthology!

[@apukdcfc76]

@@AndrewDixonMusic yeah before the internet too so we got our news from the NME. Top of the Pops, MTV and books. Looking forward to hearing what Noel Gallagher thinks about the GET BACK doc

[@neilymanadventures6577]

I was born in 69 and I can remember things but not knowing they were anything to do with The Beatles. The cafe in our village had a juke box and on the front had a couple of record sleeves, the one that stood out was 4 individual pictures of hairy blokes with a black background, it would be years later before I recognised it as the cover of Let It Be. The earliest song I can remember was probably Elton's version of Lucy In The Sky. When I was about seven we sang Yellow Submarine in a school concert. The first mention of the band I recall was when Back In The USSR was released as a single in 76 and my first solo Beatle song would have been Mull of Kintyre. My sister had the Collection Of Oldies album which I would sneak a listen to if she wasnt in. Like you and many others my obsession was probably exacerbated by John's murder as you couldn't go anywhere without hearing their songs at the time and I got the Red album for my birthday and the Blue album for my Christmas in 81. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit but Stars On 45 also introduced me to a lot of their songs. There was also a late night show on Radio Luxembourg where you could phone in and request any Beatles song. I also bought a couple of books, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler's Beatles: An Illustrated Record (my bible) and Philip Norman's Shout and that was just the first 13 years of my life!

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Great memories, thanks for sharing! 🙂👍

[@mikel4797]

It was your destiny from a young age Andrew..

[@donmaley6447]

My parents had a couple who became their best friends growing up ..they had a daughter who was 10 years older then me..we were both only children and she became a big sister to me...so the age of 7/8.(67/68) I would hang out in her bedroom looking at her album collection..which she had a few albums by The Beatles..that's were I started..so at 9..I had bought Abbey Road new and Hey Jude(69) on 45..Paul's songs/voice always Fascinated me. So by then they broke up(70)..Solo Paul became my Obsession ..

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

An older kids album collection was often a super cool thing of beauty!

[@UKNostalgiaThegoodolddays]

When I about 6 My parents had cds which I liked e.g Abbey Road beatles for sale and couple others qand in cds they they slip for the complete beatles box set so every birthday I would ask for the ones we didn't have . Without hearing any tracks just from a tiny picture

[@marktrimnell8245]

Andrew - do you remember Paul and Linda appearing on the Wogan chat show on a Friday night in Nov '87? A good interview, and they played 'Listen to what the man said' and 'Jet' to top and tail the show. I taped it and watched it over and over for years after. Also, March 1988 - the Aspel show - when George and a tipsy Ringo appeared together. That was a blast - I think Ringo gave the booze up about a year later. But those shows stick in my mind. I enjoyed your video.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

I will have watched the Paul/Linda/Wogan interview at the timebut don't recall it from the time, but I've certainly seen it on KZbin more recently. I watched the George/Ringo/Aspel interview just last week! Ringo didn't come across well!

[@marktrimnell8245]

@@AndrewDixonMusic I mentioned it because it fits into the timeline of 'Once upon a long ago', which is the single he was promoting from the new album 'All the best' and you were talking about that in your video. I'm glad Ringo sorted himself out - just a few months later, he was in rehab with Barbara so this was at the very end of his heavy drinking period. I got into the Fabs in late '79 with the 'Hey Jude' album quickly followed by the 'blue' album and Wings greatest. After that, I was hooked and Shaved Fish, Band on the Run and the other Beatles album quickly followed. Been hooked ever since.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

@@marktrimnell8245 Yes absolutely the reason why I will have watched that at the time, All the Best being imminent and me getting interested. Fun times!

[@31dar2PF]

I got into The Beatles when i was 12 (im 15 now). I really liked Micheal Jackson and i think it was summer and i was driving home with my parents. And in the radio was a song called “Say Say Say“. I really liked it. So i searched for it on KZbin and then I saw a comment where someone wrote that he liked it because he liked the Beatles. I didn‘t understood why he liked it because of The Beatles. The Beatles weren‘t even singing/ playing the song. So i saw who else sang it and i saw Micheal Jackson and Paul McCartney. I didn‘t know how Paul was, so i searched for it and i found out he was a beatle. So i searched up for The Beatles and listend to some songs and i really liked them. Know after 3 years they are my favorite band. I know all songs and the full history of the Beatles.

[@StevesHornet900]

...I watched the cartoon on television in the 1970's - then for Christmas in 1978 I got the boxed set of singles from my Mum and Dad ! I met Paul at the airport on June 7th 1996 following the Royal opening of LIPA ...then met George and Olivia inside , then outside the Barbican Theatre in 1997 and 1998 following Ravi Shankar's annual 'Recital' there . I stopped 'collecting' stuff after George died as I'd spent thousands on bootleg vinyl and cd's and just played them once then stuck them on shelves to collect dust - when I should have been going on holidays etc instead ! I went to Liverpool on Saturday , for a birthday shuftie around - and bought a couple of 3D pictures of John , as I still buy decorative items. Do you know about Stephen Bailey's sad news ?

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Some great meetings you had there! Is Stephen Bailey the owner of the Beatles shop on Mathew Street? I'm not aware of any news, what has happened?

[@StevesHornet900]

@@AndrewDixonMusic ...he told me he's had a house fire and his entire collection went up in flames sadly....

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

@@StevesHornet900 oh heck that's terrible, I imagine he had a great collection. At least, thankfully, he was in a position to be able to tell you this, and that's the most important thing.

[@deusdedithkojiuchino9349]

I found that collection of Paul All The Best,good because have songs with quality and a selection excellent my guess.About Beatles is hard for start talking the good album of band,but for me is:Rubber Soul,Revolver,A Hard Day´s Night,White Album and Please Please Me.I liked these albuns of band are goods my guess.Uchino of Japan.Thank you.

[@deusdedithkojiuchino9349]

I was in holiday in house of my father in summer of 1978,when in first time I hear Rubber Soul,where I start the liked of Beatles music,I sent difference and in that moment,more the concept of sound change my life.

[@claudec2588]

I got into the Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Before that I was a fan of Perry Como and Dave Brubeck.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

That must have been an exciting night! Kathy's Waltz by Dave Brubeck is an interesting one, did Paul rip it off in All My Loving!?

[@anthonyh8153]

I discovered the Beatles firstly two years/ ago when I was 14 ( now 16) through my grandmothers original black and gold pressed please please me vinyl as well as the 62-66 CD I now have the collectors bug and have all the Beatles albums on vinyl and am well on my way to having the solo Beatles on vinyl too.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Enjoy the journey! 🙂👍

[@pavement422]

Uncanny watching this as your story is very similar to mine. I grew up with The Beatles on in the background as a soundtrack. I had a ZX Spectrum. And I too bought All The Best as my real introduction to Macca’s solo work. You must be around my age, 48?

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

You're in the right ballpark! 🙂👍

[@pavement422]

Andrew Dixon And I specifically remember John Lennon getting shot and the effect it had on me.

[@pavement422]

Andrew Dixon Love your channel btw.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Thanks 🙂👍 Felt back then like there were very few of us kids getting in to The Beatles, certainly none of my mates were, it was a lonely hobby!

[@Kieop]

I'm 48 too. Press to Play was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I got All the Best the next year and Cloud Nine. I was also buying as much Beatles vinyl as I could find, just in time for LPs to be replaced with CDs. Sigh. 1986-1992, I was absolutely obsessed with them.

[@melissabrown2109]

My Mum,more than my Dad,enjoyed The Beatles.

[@robl6933]

Wow, watching this brought a lot of memories back to me. I remember when John died I had known of the Beatles, but they were just a band. Coming Up came out before that and I enjoyed it, the same with Say Say Say. Loved both songs but still hadn't hit bitten by the Beatles bug. In around 84 or 85, my brother bought the Red and Blue album on cassette, that's when the Beatles blew my mind. Strawberry Fields was my favorite song. I'd just to it and both cassettes all the time. Then I too got hooked on the song Once Upon a Long Ago. My other brother needed help at work, I said "If you buy me Paul McCartney All the Best I would help", I would have helped him anyway but he had way more money then me. I taped the program 20 Years Ago Today, and would rent the Complete Beatles from the video store all the time. Great times. Thanks for the video.

[@blockfrog]

My earliest memory of the Beatles was when I was like 4. I distinctly remember my mom giving me some honey and I asked my dad to play the honey song. Can you guess what that tune is? 😁

[@melissabrown2109]

Just as well Peter Jackson bought the "Red" and "Blue" Beatles albums when he did.If he hadn't there would have been no "Get Back".

[@melissabrown2109]

Congratulations,winning the computer game.

[@laceyshaymaloney2618]

My introduction to the beatles andrew was having stay overs at my mates house getting stoned and drinkin cider listening to the white album abbey road sgt peppers rubber soul my mates dad was a cool fucker dead now god rest his soul them was the days

[@johnricco5366]

THE ONLY REAL WAY TO HAVE GOTTEN THE FULL IMPACT OF THE BEATLES WAS TO HAVE BEEN A TEEN IN 1964 AND LITERALLY FOLLOWED THEM THRU 1970 ALBUM BY ALBUM. SEEING THEM AS A COMING OF AGE SOUNDTRACK. ANYONE PICKING UP ON THEM LATER WOULD NEVER GET THE FULL IMPACT OF THE BEATLES. BESIDES THE MUSIC WAS HAIR STYLES,CLOTHING,AND CULTURAL IMPACT. THIS WOULD ALL BE LOST ON LATER FANS. SORRY BUT THATS REALITY. LIKE A YOUNG HOT AND WHITE BLUES GUITARIST TRYING TO IDENTIFY WITH THE LIFESTYLE OF AN OLD BLACK BLUESMAN FROM THE 1940S. CAN APPRECIATE THE MUSIC BUT EVERYTHING ELSE DOESNT REGISTER.

[@sharigreen9252]

I couldn't agree more. I was 12 when they came to America. It was a time unlike any other. I imagine the prior generations before me felt the same way about Elvis and Sinatra. Even so, there had NEVER been anything like the Beatles before or for that matter since. Very happy I lived and experienced it as it happened!

[@johnricco5366]

@@sharigreen9252 and even you weren't the real target age of the beatles and their cultural explosion. i was 15 in 1964 and right in the middle of it. i would say 14 to 18 were the demographic ages of greatest impact. basically high school age.a few years older and more elvis influenced,a few years younger and more attuned to the monkees a few years later. i was in the thick of it at 15.

[@sharigreen9252]

@@johnricco5366 I disagree. Anyone from 12 and up was in that group. I was 12 in 1964 and completely mesmerized and "knew" what was going on. There were a lot of people in the US who were 10 and 11 years old who were at their concerts. However, there are those who claim they were aware of them at 4 or 5! Now THAT'S pushing it IMO!

[@johnricco5366]

@@sharigreen9252 my point is that pre high school kids weren't so much into their music as culture and lifestyle but more as background entertainment. not really conscious of the musical revolution taking place. music and culture hits hardest entering the teens. not 10 or 12. in 1959 i was 10. i was aware of elvis and most of the 50s rockers like chuck berry,buddy holly,and so on. but it was just fun backdrop music and didn't mean more. but to a 16 year old whois beginning to experience love and so many emotions it was everything. those feelings really don't kick in until youre in your teens. at 10 or 12 love ughh! at 14 or 15 totally different. very emotional. and thats the difference. big emotional jump and worldview changes from 12 to 14 or 15. i know how i changed from a 12 year old listening to music in the early 60s to 15 just a few years later. the beatles became the soundtrack to my high school years and beyond,which never could have happened if i were in junior high then..

[@sharigreen9252]

@@johnricco5366 Well, they've been the soundtrack of my life since I was 12. I may not have experienced the stuff you spoke about at 12, but I was fully aware of them and their music. My brother was 16 and the two of us experienced music together since I was 7 and even younger. I remember Elvis vaguely when I was 5, but at 12 I was into seeing his films including Viva Las Vegas. I will always consider myself a first generation Beatles fan. I remember the music prior to the Beatles: Beach Boys, 4 Seasons, Motown artists even the Bobbys: Darin, Rydell, Vinton and Vee. And many others. I was very music savvy. I was 3 years away from high school. By that time the Beatles were working on Sgt. Pepper.

[@DanFernandesBenficaSaint]

Still haven’t discovered how none of the songs were written by them - Neapolitan 1800s music for hey Jude and yesterday just get you started - and how they clearly replaced Paul McCartney…. One wonders why!? Safe of Quay aka Mike Williams. I suggest you listen to what he has to say. So so obvious, it’s not the same man. Unlike David Bowie and an unknown producer who looks EXACTLY like Bowie and talks as if he used to be Bowie in an obituary on sky news. Absolutely hilarious. They are mocking the idiots. Do your research before you make stupid videos. John Lennon talking about Beatle Bill. Ringo saying he’s the last remaining Beatle. George calling him FAUL. So many clues. It’s a myth that self proclaimed artists who could read or write music were able to compose such vast arrays of music in such a short period of time with very little time between albums. When you actually “discover” the Beatles, come back to me. Ciao.

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

Absolute bullshit, and if you don't realise that I'm sure a doctor can prescribe some decent medication.