I love that I discovered the Beatles more or less independently when I was just a boy. My auntie knew that I was interested in tape and messing about with things like that, so she found an old reel to reel tape machine with a load of old spools at a jumble sale and gave it to me. Someone had made painstaking compilations of their favourite songs, mainly from the 60's.
And the Beatles stuff was what I came back to, over The Stones, The Kinks, etc.
It wasn't the obvious singles that I'd already heard being pumped from my dad's transistor radio tuned to Capital Gold. It was the odd album tracks like 'Rocky Raccoon' and 'Martha My Dear', which I absolutely adored.
I then borrowed Sgt Pepper from the library on cassette and it went from there really. Then I became a teenager and it wasn't really cool to like the Beatles until Oasis came along, and I started buying the CDs. Then I appreciated the other layers in their songs that I missed as a child.
And even now I find new things to appreciate in their music, especially the last 3 albums, and especially The White Album.
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