BEATLEMANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bless Zee Studio! They played a Beatles movie one fine night and my parents happened to watch it.
Bless my mother!!! She found the Disk resting on one of the racks of Landmark. The evening was the fateful one, 19th of October.

I knew I wouldn't like anything as ancient as that! ABBA, Billy Joel and Harry Belafonte were some of the exceptions. I am the kind of person who likes modern stuff like Linkin Park and Linkin Park and....are there any other bands? But I shut my gob and my cousin and I lay on the bed listening to the first few songs to which my mother sang along and indulged in. I knew I couldn't do by finding the songs bad, so I tried to like them. The next morning, my cousin softly but honestly told me that she didn't find the songs good or anything of that sort. I said,"Yeah, I think they're good, I like all old kinda stuff, but I can't go crazy about them".

A few days later, after returning from the Ajanta Ellora trip, I woke up early on the second morning of Diwali and sat with my discman and the Beatles CD to figure out what was so appealing about them. And well, yeah! They sounded good, man! Real good! Interesting...Then again, I heard them in the car on a journey with my mother's American friend and we all sang along; I was particularly surprised to find myself singing the words right! Then my father asked what made girls swoon over the Beatles. So my mother and her friend began discussing whom more girls swooned over. The competition was between George and John.

On getting back home, I sat with the photo booklet accompanying the CD.I realised that all of the Beatles looked like schoolboys. Agreed that John did look handsome, but with his glasses and moustache and short hair, sorry to say, he looked terrible. George looked like one of the ordinary people. Ringo Starr had a nose to put me off. Someone else caught my eye. The one who looked the same throughout all the years-Paul McCartney. He is called babay faced, but I believe he's the sweetest!

And then began my resaerch on him. No prejudice, John Lennon and Paul McCartney and George Harrison and Ringo Starr are great musicians, but Paul is the ultimate, perhaps because he is also still alive. Coming back to The Beatles,

Now, those three voices and the drums, guitars and violins had invaded my life in evey sphere. Earlier, a girl who disapproved of music addiction could now be seen listening to the top 27 singles of The Beatles religiously, every single night. The sajjan student now thought of hiding her discman in her bag and listening to The Beatles every free period. But then, there's a limit.

My Beatles CD is my prized possession.