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| From | Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: _____ are my Beatles |
| Date | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) |
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Who was my Beatles when I was coming of age? I suppose that it depends upon what you mean by "coming of age", since that's a fairly elastic term. I was still just a little kid at the tail end of the Beatles era, although I can remember hearing Beatles songs on the radio as far back as "Penny Lane", but I didn't purchase my first album (the Beach Boys comp *Endless Summer*) until I was 14 in the summer of '75.
In terms of the acts that meant the most to me at any given time when I was young -- the acts whom I regularly cited to my friends as my favorite, the acts whom I went out of my way to see live, the acts whose albums I played the most, the acts whose new albums I eagerly awaited and bought the first day that they came out -- the roster reads thus:
1976-79: Blue Oyster Cult
1979-81: The Boomtown Rats
1981-84: The Police
1984-87: The dBs
1987-91: The Replacements
By the time the 'mats broke up I was on the verge of turning 30 and, thus, had presumably "come of age".
Gregory Sager
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