Hi!

I've just added an article about The Beatles to my Blog - any comments, joiners, followers would be most welcome!!!

Cheers!!

Stu

I want to see the article. Please let me know how can i see this article.

Hi! Thanks so much for the interest!

Here is the link to the blog post:



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http://tollesburytimeforever.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/what-is-it-about-beatles.html

Hi Stuart

I'm originally from Dagenham too, born in 1947, so I was a teenager when the Beatles came on the music scene. I saw them play live at the Romford Gaumont in 1963. I was in the front row of the circle, so could look directly down at them. Man, what a show! Their early music was sublime, and their success spurred other working class kids along the same route. For example, Dagenham born entertainers, like Sandie Shaw, Dudley Moore, and The Tremeloes, made it big around the same time.

Colin

I was watching The Voice the other night and trying to work out why none of the singers moved me. Ditto most pop singers today. I think it's because when I started listening to music in the 60s, it was a rare period where writing and performing largely came from the artists' creative desire, so you got this authentic marriage of sounds. Of course there were commercial drivers too, but for a time, the record companies lagged behind the musicians.

So, the Beatles and the Beach Boys, for instance, were locked in a battle to out-do each other, but artistically as much as for the money. I still remember at 14, listening to a crackly Radio Luxembourg under the bed sheets, hearing 'Good Vibrations' for the first time, and being stunned by the invention and the sheer musical transcendence it produced.

And who knows, it may be that growing up listening to that kind of music programmed me, in a good way, to always want to produce the best I can creatively with my writing, rather than trying to charge up the commercial route.

Terry,

I echo your sentiments.

QC: Quality counts. Commercialism can go take a jump.