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Old 07-08-2010, 02:54 AM  
MikeSmoke
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Originally Posted by justinsain View Post
I was just a toddler when I got to watch the Beatles first performance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

I thought they were cool because I got to stay up after 8:00 pm. My older sister was freaking out. My mom thought they were gross and everyone had to keep my dad from turning the channel.
I had to watch them (and any other rock act) on the Sullivan show in my parents' room on their small tv - my father wouldn't allow rock music on the TV in the living room.
My mother bought me "Meet the Beatles" but she hid it from my father and I could only play the album during the day when he was at work.

What pissed me off but was also hysterical was several years later --- watching him drumming his fingers and whistling along with Beatles songs that were rearranged for Muzak (elevator music with violins, no vocals) as he drove.
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