The Beatles

The Experiment: Day 15 ~ The Beatles. Abbey Road. 1969. Where Were You?

The Beatles. Abbey Road. September 29, 1969. I was 15. I don’t remember much from that time in my life, but I remember Abbey Road, I know all the words to all the songs, I bet a lot of you remember them too. Where were you when this album came out, how old were you, what do you remember about this time? Whenever I hear Here Comes The Sun I feel happy, and full of hope, and as if all things are possible. I think I will be listening to this song a lot today.

Okay, this song wasn’t on Abbey Road and there’s some funny business at the beginning of this video but it’s the original Hey Jude and the video is really something. They were SO YOUNG. And so were we. It will take you back. Many of us have children that never knew this music. Many of them do now. If you ask me, that’s when music was music! And I remember it all as such an innocent time but it wasn’t. The Vietnam war was raging on. Social unrest. Violence on college campuses. We think of all of the violence now, and it is here, and it is terrible, but those were not carefree times. And yet there was this music, and it carried a lot of us a long way.

And I’m wondering what music can carry me along now? Nothing like the music of the 60’s and 70’s. I was just a wee bit young to be a bonafide hippy, but I am a hippy in my heart, and I want to reclaim that feeling now. I want to listen to the Beatles because they make me happy, their early music, Abbey Road.

(Not to mention Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sigh. It came out in 1967. I wanted so badly to find an original of the Beatles “When I’m 64” but I couldn’t find them doing it. I will be 64 on my next birthday, and I will be listening to that song!)

Were you alive in 1969 when this music was born? Where were you, what were you doing? I really want to know. Please write your memories in the comments here on the blog, it would make me so happy to hear them. Amidst it all I want to remember the happy times, even if we were just in our bedroom listening to this music over and over again and singing and crushing on Paul or whichever was your favorite Beatle. (Oh baby I was PAUL all the way!)

Today the sun is shining and the Beatles are playing here in my studio and I am happy. I am happy right now, in this very moment. Where are you? Talk to me…

(And if you weren’t alive yet then but you came to love this music too, tell me how you found it and what it means to you. I’d really love to know.)