How did you discover The Beatles?

[Amadeus]

For me, I think it was around '74. I was 6 or 7 and I was a Monkees fan!!! One Sunday afternoon, there was a movie on TV and it was kind of like The Monkees but unfamiliar. I asked dad if it was The Monkees (I was 7), he said it was The Beatles. Well, I didn't know from Beatles, but from that moment on (it was "The Night Before" scene)I embarked on a lifetime of obsessive Beatles behavior and discovered that they were almost as good as The Monkees.

[annyskod]

I discovered the beatles thanks to my father,when I was 8 I my hero was Elvis,and I listened to his music everyday.And it can be weird but I first discovered John lennon and after the beatles!!Yes,it's true,I was in love with his music at 11 years old...my father had all his albums..and I loved him like mad.Then I started to listen to the beatles,too.And everything became clear... I also love Paul McCartney solo works,but I think to have a soft spot for john I've always listened to their music,but only at 18 I became conscious that they were changing my life,they helped me a lot,also in bad moments of my life.

[beatlesattheirbest]

Hello. Goodbye on the radio when I was 4. You say yes, I say no. You say stop, I say go.

Powerful lyrics to a kid that age.

[beatlesfanatic64]

Wellll.... It was about 2-3 years ago (when I was 10 or 11). I was at my friend's house, and we couldn't decide on a movie. She told her dad she wanted to see the one with the purple monster who ate itself (talking about the Vacuum Monster). Her dad asked her "Are you talking about barney?" and she said 'no'. Her dad pulled out Yellow Submarine and when she said that was the right one. We watched it. After, I asked her who the artist of the songs in it was again. She told me, and that day, when i got home, I asked my mum if we had any Beatles CD's. She handed me The Beatles No.1 hits. I kept on repeating it all day. Then the next day she gave me the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band CD. The next time I went to the same friends house, I was loving the Beatles, and she told me she had another beatles movie called A Hard Day's Night. We watched it, and I fell in love...SO in love... I watched Help! with my dad, and looked like this the whole time... I had already leaked out that I had a crush on Ringo (which I still do), so I looked like this when his pants fell off. heehee... From then I just became more and more and more and more obsessed. And here I am today!!

[mayojohnny]

It was the year 2000. I like that I found them in the millennium year! I borrowed '1' from a friend, which was brand new at the time. The thing that struck me was how much better the songs got the more I listened. This happens with any song that hooks you of course, but these were on another level; they were so clever lyrically.

Lady Madonna, Hey Jude, and Eight Days A Week were the standout tracks for me at the time. That has changed now with maturity, but there's something very special about thinking back to when you knew nothing about them, where their reputations meant nothing, and where they were relying solely on good music to impress the listener, long after they had broken up.