The Next Big Thing

“These guys are going to be the next big thing.”

Those words came out of the annoying teenage boy who lived next door to me.

I grabbed the 45 record cover from his hands. I Want to Hold Your Hand. Four guys smiled at me. Long hair. Cute. Cute. Cute. And Cuter.

“Yeah, right?” I rolled my eyes and walked away. What did he know? He wanted to kiss me and I wanted nothing to do with him.

“That’s what my dad said.”  He yelled.  “Just wait and see.”

Well, it didn’t take much waiting.

His father worked for Capital records at the time and he definitely knew what he was talking about.  A few months after that conversation, The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show.

“I told you,” my neighbor taunted that next day at school.

But I didn’t care that he had been right. By then I was totally in love with this new band from Liverpool.

The evening of their performance, I sat in front of the TV while my mom colored my hair. A ritual she performed once a month on a Sunday.

Hold still, she demanded over and over as I moved closer the screen.

From that day forward Beatles music has been the soundtrack for my life.  I have too many favorites to narrow my list to one or two.

But I do have a favorite listening moment, or hours.

In 1968, my BFF and I shared a studio apartment. We sat on our beds (pretty much our only furniture) waiting for the radio station to play The White Album.  An experience I’ll never forget. The disc jockey told us to stay tuned. They were going to play the entire double album. Can you imagine this happening today?

Every song became our favorite from Side 1 Back in the USSR to the last one on side 4, Good Night.
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And of course, we had to each buy our own album because our living quarters were only temporary. Once we graduated college and headed off into our lives, we wanted our own to take with us.

These days, I get my Beatle fix on Sunday morning when I listen to Breakfast with The Beatles, on KLOS in Los Angeles.

To paraphrase the Fab Four, “I’ve had a long and winding life.”  Every moment can be defined by a Beatle song.

I know it’s been a long time since that morning back in 1963.  So, Lance (my annoying neighbor) if you’re reading this, “I’m sorry I ever doubted you.”

But I’m not sorry we never kissed!

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