I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND THROUGH THE HARD DAYS NIGHT CAUSE I LOVE YOU DO–OH YEAH YEAH YEAH

Looks like the liquid sunshine isn’t going to dry up any time soon.

ORIGINAL: AN ACT OF EVIL 4/20/1995 TERROR IN THE HEARTLAND $10.40

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Why don’t real guys ever talk like this?????

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I was flipping through a catalog the other day and saw

THE BEATLES 42 WOODEN MAGNET SHAPES, which included various portraits of the lads from three different periods of their fame, as well as group portraits, logos and other art work.

And I thought back to the old days of the 60’s when I saw the Fab Four live in Chicago and the walls of my bedroom and closet (which we (my sis and I) shared with my long suffering brother) were covered with pictures from every magazine I could afford to buy.

My father always blamed it on my mum who while at the grocery store saw the 45 (that’s a record with one song on each side for those too young to remember) of I Want to Hold Your Hand and bought it for me. I wasn’t actually a fan yet, but did like the record and by the time I saw them (the whole family gathered around that primitive thing we called a TV) on Ed Sullivan I was a sold on the “mop top” foursome.

These were not the later foursome who would go on to remake Rock ‘n Roll as we know it today, but a group of young men who introduced weird new fashions and had boys growing long hair and schools writing rules in protest. It was the beginning of a legend, the start of that little rock that rolls down a hill side and no one realizes that it will eventually be an avalanche.

Sure these cheeky, working class boys from the industrial city of Liverpool (it put it on the map–there’s not a lot of reasons other then the Beatles that would bring the average tourist to Liverpool) who came here, a bit shell-shocked at first at the thousands who showed up to scream at even a hint of their appearing, but they were just a new fad and the adults in power shook their heads and said “this too will pass.”

Their music was new but to begin with nothing so outstanding as to think they would go down in history for their words and songs. I know I had become bored with the songs that were out at the time and found their songs even then a breath of fresh air from the mundane. That fresh breeze would eventually become a strong wind that would blow with us into near “Revolution”.

We didn’t know it then but we were a generation, that like the lads whose music we became so attached to, that was posed to take the world into an era of self realization and personal freedom and awareness that only lasted for a short while, but like a bright comet once seen would never be forgotten even by those that did not embrace it.

They were never the raw edged group that say the English Stones, or the American Door for instance were, but they were much grittier than their publicity people at the time would allow us to know and much more groovier than their first cutie image led us to believe. That would come later and the “boys” who graced the stage with Ed Sullivan (and appeared in Hard Days Night) were safe for the teens they entertained—but the times they were a changing and all of us–the boys from Liverpool and their rabid fans—would change with them, never to be quite the same again.

I think this week I’ll review the 60’s and give you a look of the world, at least according to me back then. Cause I did get to see the best groups, marched for peace in DC and even drove Route 66 from LA to Chicago.…I have other references if you’d like them……