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How Many Beatles-Free Days?
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You know how factories post signs "23 days accident-free"? How long do you go without hearing or reading some reference to the Beatles?

The idea struck me because I was reading an old comic series (Chronos) and there was a scene with the Beatles. The next day, I finished the series, and there was another scene with the Beatles. Turn on the radio, a Beatles song. Surf the net, an old BBC interview with George Harrison ( love ). John Lennon's birthday. You get the point.

Since I started counting two weeks ago, I've had 2 successive Beatles-free days. Maybe it's a generational thing.

(Eight Days a Week! The radio's on in the background as I type this, and there's some guy talking about the Beatles' haircuts!)


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Funnily enough I had a conversation with a student a few years ago that was almost exactly the same, he said that he didn't understand why he heard the Beatles all the time on the radio as he thought they were rubbish. I explained the history of their music and the influences they had, styles they tried and such like. For weeks afterwards I kept hearing their songs everywhere I went.

I'll keep a diary over the next few weeks and report back to you Nancy.


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#555301 10/11/09 07:52 AM
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Until I saw this thread, probably months. Oh wait, yesterday I saw a thread about Lennon's birthday, so other than that...

Guess I live in a Beatles limited world.

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With BB here. Until this, I can't remember the last time.


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well i can never go too many Beatles free days, when i'm driving my cab listening to the radio especially when i have on WCBSfm or any of the local "classic rock" stations i'm most assuredly bound to hear a Beatles song at least every hour or every other hour during my shift. and of course every sunday it's a 2 hour Beatles love fest with "breakfast with the Beatles" on one of the mentioned "classic rock" stations. so i'm almost always on Beatles over-saturation, but i can't complain.


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While I was driving to a restaurant this morning, Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" came over the radio. Inside the restaurant, "Junior's Farm" played over the intercom.

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#555305 10/12/09 12:46 AM
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I won't go long without my Beatles fix. If the radio doesn't cooperate, then I'll just put on an album. Sure, I could live without the Beatles, just as I could live without literature or poetry or the Legion, but why should I have to?

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I don't listen to the Beatles every single day, but it's rare that I don't see/hear an external Beatles reference in a given day. Internally, of course, every day I "listen to the music playing in [my] head".

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#555307 10/12/09 08:10 AM
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John Lennon was killed the year before I was born, but just about every class I ever took in grade school, college and grad school felt the influence of the Beatles, and I think thats true for most of the USA. I'm curious as to what that means in 10-15 years when more people who were taught be people who were influenced by John Lennon take power in business and politics.

I also hear the Beatles constantly on the radio, on television in the background or in commercials. And I see references to them all the time.

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#555308 10/12/09 09:21 AM
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My daughter is teacher herself acoustic guitar playing. She's become very good and is a big George Harrison fan, so I hear Beatles music almost daily. I don't mind it one bit.


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Well, I definitely count today (even assuming this thread doesn't count smile ) as I was channel-surfing and landed a few minutes on E! and saw something about "top 30 celebrity feuds" or somesuch. Either 29 or 28 was Paul McCartney/Heather Mills!


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This morning, I even had a Beatles dream! They were playing at Shea Stadium, where they were clowning around to make their stage show more "interesting." (Y'know, 'cause watching four guys who look like ants stand still and play is kind of boring, even if they are icons).

On the way to work this morning, I heard "Please Please Me" on the radio.


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I gave up on achieving the Beatles-free ideal years ago. (Though as a certified Gen-Xer, I felt that it was my civic duty to at least try. laugh )

I have at least one Beatles cover (KJ Denhert singing "She Loves You") on iTunes right now. Probably more to come.

shrug There are worse songs to cover out there, I guess.


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There aren't many Beatles free days around my house. I'm a hardcore fan. When I was a kid in rural MIssouri, my buddies and I would drive around on gravel roads getting high while listening to our favorite bands on eight track or cassette tape. On one of those trips I made the innocent comment, "Hey man, did I ever tell you I love the Beatles?" when Blackbird came on.

It was moment immortalized in our stoner history. My friends cracked up and teased me for years. Still do actually. My vacations home are typically marked by at least one incident of someone I haven't seen in years calling out from across a crowded room, "Hey man, did I ever tell you I LOVE the Beatles"?


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#555313 10/14/09 12:17 PM
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Three days since this thread started (my last Beatles encounter) til today on the subway platform a guy was playing a guiter and singing a Beatles song. I forget what song as I am listening to Simon and Garfunkel now.


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Can't resist sharing a couple of Beatles covers for their sheer eccentricity and/or randomness:

Ed Reed , one of my favorite jazz singers, on a stripped-down "Come Together."

Diana Yukawa (violin) with several uncredited beatboxers, Hikari Ichihara (trumpet), and an uncredited pianist, performing "Lady Madonna."


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A couple more Beatles covers: Susan and the Surftones play "A Day In The Life."

And Throwing Muses plays "Cry Baby Cry" . (Just to confuse their fans and various search engines, the group also has an original song with the exact same title.)


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I listen to the local oldies station while getting ready for work, so luckily, I never have a Beatles-free day!!
Just for giggles, here\'s a Beatles cover by the B-52s!!

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After watching an all Beatles cover show on BBC4 last night here is a quite unusual cover of Petula Clark singing Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

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This guy was famous for prepping and playing a Beatles' cover a few days after the song's release. McCartney was impressed and flattered.

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Jeepers! How can you have a thread of Beatles covers without Richie Havens ?

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I listen to the local oldies station while getting ready for work, so luckily, I never have a Beatles-free day!!
Just for giggles, here\'s a Beatles cover by the B-52s!!
Holy Toledo! What've they done to poor Tinya's costume?!

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Wow, that Richie Havens cover has some energy. I know nothing about him.


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Richie Havens is primarily remembered these days for being the first act at Woodstock (and for writing "Freedom", a major Woodstock anthem that he improvise on the spot when he had to fill time). In the late 60s/early 70s, he was a pretty major folk artist, particularly known for his frantic guitar strumming on covers of tunes by the Beatles, Dylan, etc. His stuff is definitely worth checking out.

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#555323 07/25/10 03:06 AM
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The Beatles show up in comics from time to time. I read the #1-1/2 issue of Midnight Nation last night (it was some special Wizard promo) and John Lennon made an appearance. Nice story, too.


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