Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 73 of 100:

Nicely slow-burn. No huge rush, boys. It was years after their initial meeting at a church fete before they ever became 'The Beatles'. Years in Hamburg. Years before they found the drummer they needed. Years stuck in the back of a van. A year stuck in a damp, rat-ridden Liverpudlian cellar. Years on the road. Years in a studio.Years before anyone ever caught up with what they had really achieved in that magical decade. Yep: the slow-burn boys. But every time the fuse ran out as it did every so often: live audiences, studio albums, arriving in the USA, the India experience, meeting Dylan, the break-up....boy did they blow our minds. And really appreciating The Beatles is still a slow burn: they left us such a Magnum Opus.

It's another reason we love The Beatles.

The Back-Story

Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do

7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney

12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon

17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo

21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.

24: Simply Different

25: A Time to Think

26: Revolver

27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

28: The B Side