My favorite Beatle would have been 63 today...boy do I feel old They are playing all Beatles music today and that always puts me in a good mood....Takes me back to so many good times in my life. So sad and such a shame & loss of talent....So who is your favorite Beatle? and Happy Birthday to John Lennon
oh man...what more needs to be said! My boy is Ringo, mostly becuse no one else was into him. These people kept me sane in a most insane time. We will never be that innocent, (we actually, honestly thought if we wrote a letter to them they would play at our school dance!) Was John Lennon a genius? who knows, but when you think of the time, the assination of JFK, cuba missle crisis, the fall out shelters and bomb drills at school (duck and cover!) we all needed a little 'love me do'.
I remember when he was killed. I was a senior in high school and pretty broken up about it. I remember standing in the gym that day, and none of my "popular" friends really cared or even knew about it. I remember looking over at the "dopers," and they were all sitting in a circle on the gym floor talking silently. They were very serious and some of them had stricken looks on their faces. I remember thinking that they were surely talking about Lennon, and that they'd understand how upset I was. I wanted to go over there, but, the thing is, if I'd walked over to them and sat down with them, they'd have snubbed the "social girl" and told me to get lost. And then my friends would have looked at me like I was a leper for trying to talk to the "dopers," and told me to get lost.
Ahh high school cliques . . .
Edited to add: my favorite is John, but Paul comes in a very close second.
John is my favorite.....the day he was killed was one of the saddest most amazing days of my life. My ex-husband and I went to this group in Century City that had a memorial service. People were hugging each other, strangers crying and holding each other. Guys had their guitars laying on the ground with burning candles dripping al over them....they all said they were doing it so that they would never forget who inspired them, their hero.
I ended up in the middle of this huge circle of about a thousand people. There was three guitar players, a violinist, a fluetist all in the center, we were all singing Beatle songs, rocking....people were smoking pot, passing around bottles of liquor, water, food...everyone was sharing, it was like the 60's....the police were there and they saw it all and let it go, they were just as upset...no one made a problem, someone brought bottles of water over to them and then accepted it and nodded to us...it was an amazing slice of life....what an amazing person that could create a magical moment in time like that...........we all felt him there, it was weird!!! We ended up on the news and in the local papers as the madriigals of the event.....we didn't even know it until the next day, we just wanted to sing........
My favorite changed over the years. When I was 6 it was Paul. When I was older it was definitely John. But George was always right up there too!!! And they sure needed Ringo. I just loved the whole group. I was in my senior year in college when John was shot, and it was devastating.
I will have to say that John is my favorite, I was young when he died ( what year was that? ) but my Dad was a real beatles fan and I remember how sad he was, it was not till I was older that I began to appreciate the talent of all four. Goerge would have to come in a very, very close second...he was amazingly talented and I was sad when he passed.
My favorite is Paul with John running a close second. The music is and was the some of the best. My father use to sing Michelle to me as a child. My parents wanted to call me Michele, but of course anything they wanted I rejected. When I became a teenage I loved the later stuff, in paticular The Fool on the Hill. Now I am jonesing, where are my Beatles greatest hits?
John Lennon
They are playing all Beatles music today and that always puts me in a good mood....Takes me back to so many good times in my life. So sad and such a shame & loss of talent....So who is your favorite Beatle? and Happy Birthday to John Lennon 
Joh is one of my heroes! I think he was wonderful. Happy Birthday John.
