Reading about the Beatles journey has been amazing. I liked learning about their separate lives and about how they came together. I liked seeing how their lives effected their music. I liked reading about how they changed the world and about how they gave teens a voice. I plan of reading the more updated version about what each of them did after The Beatles.
A month after they stopped touring, they all stared to try to find themselves. John tried out acting, Ringo started a family, George got really serious about Indian culture, and Paul couldn't find anything. As George grew more passionate, Paul and John become lost. They were both searching for something. They missed out on "so much formal discipline and knowledge, the sort a university might have given them, that they didn't know where to begin.Materially and emotionally they were hundred years of, but intellectually they were still in many ways adolescents. Not that they wanted anyone to teach them anything, which is where drugs came in," (Davis 228). The only other time they did drugs was in hamburg, where they had to stay up hours on end playing. George and John were both introduce to LSD by a dental friend in 1965 without even knowing they had been given it. We all know by now that the Beatles were rebellious.
A month after they stopped touring, they all stared to try to find themselves. John tried out acting, Ringo started a family, George got really serious about Indian culture, and Paul couldn't find anything. As George grew more passionate, Paul and John become lost. They were both searching for something. They missed out on "so much formal discipline and knowledge, the sort a university might have given them, that they didn't know where to begin.Materially and emotionally they were hundred years of, but intellectually they were still in many ways adolescents. Not that they wanted anyone to teach them anything, which is where drugs came in," (Davis 228). The only other time they did drugs was in hamburg, where they had to stay up hours on end playing. George and John were both introduce to LSD by a dental friend in 1965 without even knowing they had been given it. We all know by now that the Beatles were rebellious.
They rebelled against all kinds of authority, mostly John. I'm actually surprise that they were messing around like this in the beginning (a least I'm surprised John hasn't). George explained that, "It was as if I'd never tasted, talked, seen, thought or heard properly before...for the first time in my life I wasn't conscious of ego," (Harrison 228). The drugs didn't stop them from creating more music. They all got back together to work on a new project, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Though S.P.L.H.C.B you could see their interest in drugs. They started to do so many things around this time. They experimented more. They tried a
TV show and George spent five weeks in India where he learned about their culture. He also picked up the sitar. The Beatles still refused to tour. They also put off making the movies for their third year. They focused so much on what they wanted to do instead of what everyone else wanted them to do. I'm glad that the drugs got them out of their funk and just let them find themselves. They didn't even focus on the group at that time. They focused on where the wanted to be. I guess the touring really took a toll on their love for music. Having all those fans on you 24/7 could really tire a person out. The break is what they all needed.
Knowing that I was going to finish this book made me think about how they first started. How it all started because Paul decided to go watch the Quarrymen on July 6, 1975. How they began their first tours in Hamburg and started to develop their own style. How they started getting noticed by fans.
How they took London. How they invaded America. How they went from Quarrymen, to the Sliver Beatles, and to just the Beatles. Then I remember something Paul and Hunter Davis (the author) had said in the introduction. Paul said he never kept any of their old stuff. Davis said that they never kept track of dates, and that when he traveled with them they always just threw strapping of their work on the ground. Paul talked about how much he regretted it and wish he had kept everything. The Beatles didn't realize at the time it would mean anything in the end. This made me think of my life and the days that go by. The Beatles taught me that I'm not invincible. As teenagers we think nothing can hurt us. Reading about the Beatles really made me want to remember now, to cherish now. To live for today. So that "When I'm Sixty-Four", I will remember all the good times "In my Life".
One of the first songs recorded on July 12, 1958 by the Quarrymen. Song by John, written by Paul and George.
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