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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
How a Beatles Fan of 50 Years Saw the Illusion

From a boy in 1974 clutching the Red and Blue albums to a drummer in 2024 spotting what didn’t add up — my first undeniable crack in the Beatles’ official story.
[By David Peek] For decades I believed the Beatles were exactly what we’d been told — four young men whose genius poured out onto tape and changed the world. Then I learned to play drums, and the picture began to blur. This is the moment my lifelong certainty began to unravel. Read more...
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For fifty years, I was a Beatles fan — the kind who didn’t just listen, but collected, studied, and defended them. Their music shaped my life from the time I was nine years old, carrying Beatle record albums home one at a time with lawn-mowing and paper-route money. Read more...
It was 1974. The Beatles had been broken up for four years, yet in many ways they seemed bigger than ever. Newspaper headlines and TV entertainment shows speculated constantly about a reunion. Multi-million-dollar offers were floated, and every few months there was another “exclusive” claiming they’d get back together. For a young boy, it felt like living in the afterglow of something massive — the echoes of a band that had already changed the world. Read more...
The newly released Red and Blue albums were treasure chests of hits, curated into two double-LPs that felt like sacred artifacts. For me, each trip to the record store was an adventure in bringing home a piece of that “magic.”
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