Dramagod wrote:

Spent the whole weekend at this local 4th annual The Beatles Happening event. There was bands from several countries.....all I bought was a poster of Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that'll look nice on the wall of my new apartment.

Sounds like great fun! Beautiful, classic, fun rock music-- how can you miss? I'm old enough to have been a huge (young) teenage fan of the Beatles, back when they were a new idea, just arrived from Britain to make us US girls scream, lol. I Watched them on the Ed Sullivan Show on TV on those Sunday nights when they made appearances (those appearances are up on you tube, if anyone wants to see the old black and white footage). I went with a friend to see them live in Boston in the fall of 1964 (I've never forgotten this-- the tickets were $4.50 each for seats in the nosebleed section-- can you imagine?) I couldn't hear a thing, because of the screaming, but it was cool, just breathing the same air as John, Paul, George and Ringo. *grin*
 

Dramagod wrote:

That was a nice story, thanks for sharing. Sadly I'm a tad too young to have seen The Beatles but I did see Ringo here in mid-90s. Seeing the band must've been an experience one remembers for life. You're among the lucky ones, you know. I sincerely think they'll never be such a popular band that's as huge a phenomenon as Beatles were. At least the kind that 50 years from now millions of people still listen to them and thousands of musicians play their songs. To me Beatles's influence on musicians and amateur songwriters (like myself) will last pretty much forever.

They were (and IMO, still are) a phenomenon. Once in a lifetime. They had the look, the winning personalities, the showmanship and the songwriting talent-- it was a great combo. Other bands have tried, but there hasn't ever been anyone like them since. Seeing them on TV and in person are some of my fondest memories, yes, ones I surely will never forget. Back in those days, there were no VCRs, so you saw something once on TV, and that was it. No internet. Except for listening to our records and the radio and buying fan magazines with all the latest pictures and gossip, we had no ongoing source of information or contact. It made us very hungry indeed-- starving, in fact!--  to find out more about our idols, hear them, see them, etc. It was great fun, but also a time of more than a little unfulfilled longing! *grin*
 

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Very interesting stuff. 

We have snow but my children had to go to school anyway. They weren't too happy about it. 

Mnemosyne wrote:

I still have to go to work. But today my travel arrangements involve going a whole three feet from bed to PC (*gasp*)... honestly I could work in nothing but a sheet today and no one would ever know!
Best not though... it's a bit nippy. 

Oh, you have the same at-home wear as Sherlock then? Turn up the heat, it'll be comfy, even in a sheet. Might be a bit hard to answer the door, though, dressed like that, although it never stopped Sherlock. *grin*

I'm very proud of my daughter. She passed the driving test today in spite of snow and ice and drove me home afterwards. 

My congrats to Lena! When she managed the test right now, there won't be any problems in the future! ;-)

Great news, best wishes for her driving future! 

She was quite nervous and, what was worse, had to get up five hours earlier than without the test.  The start such things insanely early here in Germany.

Good to hear your daughter passed the test. I didn't pass the driving test until my second try. On my first try I was so nervious I almost drove under a truck and over an old lady. Second time went better though and I passed.