The BBC News story "The Beatles' first record contract sells for $75,000" tells how the Beatles first ever recording contract was for the song that got the interest of Brian Epstein, who quickly became their manager and led the English group to success (2015). According to the story, the group were working in nightclubs in Germany at the time, the early 1960s, and that first contract has just sold for $75,000 in New York.
Although I studied the flute for a while, music has never really been one of my passions, and as primary and high school student, I was much more interested in science, mathematics, and literature: I just didn't have time for music, and almost never listened to it. I guess it made me seem a bit odd at school, especially in high school, when everyone around me would talk about their musical favourites, and it seemed especially cool to love the Beatles, also Bob Dylan and other now ancient greats like Cat Stevens. This was before the time of Micheal Jackson, Madonna, and all that modern stuff, and way before the rise of Lady Gaga, who is the last famous one whose name comes to mind. One of my oldest friends in Bangkok, who I got to know well years earlier in Sydney, is now the manager who brings mega-stars to perform in Bangkok - I notice on his Facebook postings that recent splashes have included Bon Jovi (I've heard the name) and some new group (?) called Stamp. At least I'm familiar with Madonna, whom he's bringing out next year. But I'll skip her concerts, too.
And as I wrote about it, I was also having series doubt about my memories of my trendy cousin's beetle Beatles medallion - maybe I've conflated that memory with my memories of the glossy winged beetles that flew around my parents' property at dusk when I was at collecting lots of memories decades ago. But YouTube is a very reliable way to bring back memories.
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I did warn you in my lead in paragraph that "the Beatles were all a vague mystery to me," although as I was writing my response to the BBC News article, it went way more off topic than I'd expected. (I was never actually planning to write much about the Beatles apart from the summary paragraph and a few links between the three parts of this blog post responding to the BBC News story.)
ReplyDeleteI think I succeeded very well in not being limited to one topic here.
And if you look at it, the URL link to this blog post also reveals that there was a different initial title. After I'd published it, it was so very different to what I had originally thought I might write that I also decided I needed to revise the title to better fit the finished response to the news story.
DeleteBut we expect these sorts of largely spontaneous pieces of writing to diverge, sometimes a lot, from what we started with. And this one certainly did.