The Beatles... Reborn?

The Beatles. Well, what can I say? They're just four guys who decided to hit the big time and they made it! Through the means of amazingly written lyrics and brilliantly orchestrated music, they have most surely made their mark in my heart as one of the greatest bands that have ever walked on this Earth. And today (well, technically yesterday) with the long awaited arrival of The Beatles Rock Band, I have lived in the 1960s for maybe a few hours in the comfort of my own living room. I have experienced now, the music which managed to turn the whole of the 60s upside down and has branded an icon in my mind by playing through this immensely entertaining of a game and eventually relighting my flame for their music.

Believe it or not, eight or maybe nine years ago when The Beatles had a remastered album named "1" produced, I had started to like them. It must've taken a world's amount of coincidence for me to discover the album, infact it wasn't even me who had bought the album it was my dad who did and now that I think of it, I'm not quite sure why he bought the album. Even to this day I still have no idea as to why he bought it, I mean, maybe it was curiosity that killed the cat? Seeing The Beatles releasing an album years after their split probably would have got the better of dad's curiosity, but he's not one to be moved like that... Plus, he didn't buy the "Love" album with The Beatles' songs all remixed when it came out a couple of years ago (even though I did). So what was it? I wonder... Nevertheless, he managed to arouse my interest in The Beatles ever since the purchase of that album, and it's still here on my shelf along with my other Beatles albums which I frequently used to listen to, less so these days with the advances in technology and my own knowledge of it. With the creation of BitTorrent and mp3s, CDs just aren't worth buying anymore, they're a waste of money when you can download them online for free (though illegal) and they're another waste of space, not to mention inconvenient to access if not transferred onto computer.

Ever since contact with the "1" album was made, my fascination grew and grew as I delved deeper into the history of "Beatlemania" and their members- John, Paul, George and Ringo. I remember that my desire to learn more about them and their stories lead me to choose to do a project on a music band for Music at school, which didn't go down too well because I may have documented more about their lives than their music and its inspirational values. But it didn't matter to me, Music was just another subject to mess around in when it came round. But my interest in The Beatles didn't stop there.

Over time, I acquired further Beatles albums by saving up pocket money and so on to buy them at shops and I gained more insight into their music more than ever. I grew to know that there was to their music than just the songs on the "1" album (which turned out to be, an album of their number one hits) but there were more back catalogue of weird and interesting music. Songs like "A Day In The Life" and "I Am The Walrus" told me that The Beatles weren't just all "lovey dovey", they were a documenting type of band, they wrote songs about life and they wrote songs which expand beyond the daily logical limit of the human. And it's because of these songs which is why I like them so much.

Playing through The Beatles Rock Band, thoughts and memories went through my head... I found that I had neglected my love for The Beatles for a very long time and I seemed to have forgotten about them for a while in my life. But now that this has appeared in my life, I'm sure that I will come to know of their music again and probably to an even further extent. I sometimes do wonder what it would've felt like to live in the 60s... They say it was an era of freedom, where people were given a peace of mind, where they would do things that they liked to... And of course they had The Beatles providing them with such a fantastic soundtrack for ten years... I wish I was a part of it all back then.