Friday, March 5, 2010
Ladies and Gentleman, introducing the Beatles!
Ty and I love watching the Palladia Channel - he doesn't know it used to be called the MTV Concert channel, but it is filled with older artists, so that point is moot. Flip it on and you can find yourself being treated to a center stage seat at a Tina Turner, ACDC, U2, or Springsteen concert on a stage somewhere in the world - broadcast in High Definition, so these seats are better than if you were front row center. If your TV is big enough, the artists are life sized in your living room.
Last night while channel surfing, he paused on Palladia to watch a black and white Beatles movie - Hard Days Night. My mind began to flood with memories. I remembered parts of the movie as the Beatles ran around London, in and out of cars, stopping to sing Can't Buy Me Love, She Loves You, All My Lovin... which of course I know every word. John, Paul, George, and Ringo were so young and so thin, with an ever present cigarette in hand. I knew what was going to happen in the next scene before it happened. I had no idea that I would remember so much of this movie.
Hard Days Night premiered in June of 1964 in London to be followed by the American premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. At that time, my father was a policeman in Passaic, New Jersey. He was born in Hells Kitchen and used to love to take me on the bus to the city he was so familar with. Taking his little Suze to see Hard Days Night at Radio City was one of our outings.
I am sitting in my living room remembering a movie that I saw with my dad on a summer day in 1964 when I was just three years old. My love for Paul McCartney endures, as the music of my life plays on...
posted by Susan Maria of BariatricEating.com @ 8:07 AM
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