McCartney Times

With February 2014 marking the 50th anniversary of the Beatles invading America, we have been immersed in commemorative magazines, TV specials and radio stations playing hours of Lennon, McCartney and George Harrison compositions. Throughout their pop culture takeover in the 1960s, when songs like “I Saw Her Standing There” became instant pop classics, I have vague memories of seeing their frenzied fans screeching on television as well as watching ABC’s The Beatles cartoon on Saturday mornings.

Yet it wasn’t until after the 1975 release of Elton John’s splendid cover of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” that I began to dig deeper through the canon of great songs that the mop-topped geniuses created over their seven-year reign. Soon afterwards, with a little help from my friend and schoolmate Tony (who borrowed a few albums from his sister’s vinyl stash and smuggled them to my crib), I became turned on the magical music of these pop pioneers.

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