An artist you love: The Beatles

In my family there is a kind of tradition to love the Beatles. My uncles, siblings, grandmother and nephews are fans of them and in my dad's home always have been a picture of the Fab Four. He's their number one fan. I realized about the great band that they were when I was a teenager, at sixteen years old. I loved Come together when I listened to it in the radio and one day I heard it in Abby Road and I just fell in love.

The Beatles were a band of four young men from Liverpool, United Kingdom: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Their first album, Please please me (1963) released a teenage fever for The Beatles with rock and roll covers and original songs. Later, with the flower revolution in the 60's, the Beatles became into more hippie band, with experimental songs, playing new instruments like zither, and lyrics about political compromise or drugs experience. I love the two ages. The Beatles took the name from the beatniks, a 50's literary movement led by Jack Kerouac, a writer who John Lennon liked. My favorite albums are Revolver, Abbey Road and The White Album, all of them from the experimental age.

For me, The Beatles represent the sixties's spirit, by far the most rebellious youth with the will to change the world. I love the liberation from old and repressive customs that the youth took care of, and the evolution of rock that accompanied these decade, with artist like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin or The Mamas and The Papas.