Computer Age

First of all, I believe we should begin by making clear that the article I wrote what I did not. What you will read below was originally published in the October 1987 issue of the journal Very Interesting, dean of journalism popular Spanish (leaves at newsstands steadily each month since May 1981). The date was no coincidence, because at that time were met twenty-five years since the publication of the group's first single, that simple but catchy "Love me do". That day of 1962 nobody was aware that such an event would mark a milestone in the history of popular music, from which nothing would be the same as before. And not just on the ground is strictly musical, as the influence of the "Fab Four" to reach many areas of life and culture of the twentieth century and still today, fully immersed in the XXI, such influence is far from disappearing.

The idea of reproducing the full story in this Computer Age came to mind after dedicating part of my free time to revisit the discography of the band and go back to watching movies and documentaries relating to it. I recalled the existence of this excellent work, published for more than two decades and certainly unknown or forgotten by almost everyone. I understood that it would be worth making it available to people on the Net and I contacted Jose Pardina, the director of the VERY, which I gladly granted permission to carry out the idea. Therefore, here I leave with you a sample of good journalism coming from an era when there was no Internet, with its stunning ease of access to huge amounts of data (with all the good and bad that that entails), and therefore that he had flip, and much, to find reliable information and quality, even for a group like The Beatles. It will draw in the light of deliveries over the next few weeks, so it does not make you too heavy, and I will leave to insert some comments of his own when he deems it appropriate, properly marked to differentiate them from the original text. I hope you enjoy it as it deserves because it is really worth it. I assure you.

Beatles Forever: 25 years since "Love me do". Part One
Original author: Agustin Sanchez Vidal
Published in Very Interesting, number 77. October 1987
http://www.muyinteresante.es/

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

In 1963 and 1964, the Beatles led states of collective hysteria over there where spent. Prior to his music, this was the first shocking appearance that underlined the pacatos media of the time. Below, the "Fab Tour" in a typical promotional photo of the glorious years. From left to right: John, George, Paul and Ringo.

Future Beatles all were born in the harsh enclave of Liverpool, who at the mercy of the provincial industrial belt of central England then add those imposed by the Second World War. John Lennon and Richard Starkey (better known then as Ringo Starr) were born in 1940, Paul McCartney followed them in 1942, and George Harrison in 1943. Ringo came from the outskirts of proletarians and father George was the driver of the school bus to the center where he was studying. John and his mother, Julia (who died in 1957, hit by a drunk police) had been abandoned by his father, a sailor tough that when his son reached the fame record an album trying to return the situation. Perhaps Paul was the children who enjoy a more calm and stable, within a typical middle-class family - with low musical hobbies.

Over time, Liverpool would, however, its advantages: the port remained well-stocked for the new record, communication with Sodom and Gomorrah as Hamburg was flowing and people survived thanks to a dislocated sense of humor that give faith of the best comedians in the country, who come from there. After several formations and names, John, Paul and George (the three armed guitars, which must be added Stuart Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums) was playing in Hamburg strive tirelessly in clubs in bad death. But they are also prized by German university as Klaus Voorman, a future member of the Manfred Mann, author of the cover of their album Revolver. Many years later, and after having collaborated with the time of Lennon Plastic Ono Band, Voorman would again be both the surviving Beatles to bring home the compilation album The Beatles Antology (1996).

By then, some merely careless rockers with the inevitable zamarras leather, that have adopted the name Beatles as a play on words very carefully between Lennon beat (drum) and beetle ( "beetle"), a wink the Crickets ( "Crickets") that came with Buddy Holly. But this image somewhat haggard zafia and will be polished by Brian Epstein when it takes over his promotion after hearing them at The Cavern, a former jazz club where he played in Liverpool on his return, and without Stuart Sutcliffe, who stays in Germany die some time later.

In 1993, the director Ian Softley (K-Pax) debuted at the cinema with Backbeat, a film focusing on raids by the Beatles in Hamburg in early 60s, but Luis (the jefón of this site) is not short of qualifying publicly as "a piece of shit." It is certainly not a film too bright for us to say, but can be constituted as a starting point to explore more seriously in a stage of the gang known as little as equally fascinating.

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