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Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:30 pm
by Gob
Fifty years ago this week, the first Beatles single Love Me Do was released, launching the Fab Four's career.
The song was a hit with the teenagers of the 1960s but what do young people today think of the song - and have they even heard of it?
BBC News spoke to pupils at Burntwood School, in Wandsworth, south-west London, to get their verdict.
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:35 pm
by Lord Jim
Well, you learn something new every day...
For some reason I had always thought that I Wanna Hold Your Hand was The Beatles first hit...
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:46 pm
by The Hen
The interwebs cites their first hit single to be "Please, please me".
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:47 pm
by Gob
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:48 pm
by Gob
The Hen wrote:The interwebs cites their first hit single to be "Please, please me".
That was their first number one, "Love me do" only made number 17.
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:49 pm
by The Hen
Gob wrote:Takes you back eh?
Or Spring's me forward ...
Gob wrote:The Hen wrote:The interwebs cites their first hit single to be "Please, please me".
That was their first number one, "Love me do" only made number 17.
(Hello. How do you do. Your musically retarded wife will now exit this thread.)
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:13 pm
by Sean
I thought Wonderwall was their first hit...
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:31 pm
by Gob
Fucking "Supersonic" was way before that!
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:42 pm
by Econoline
Fucking Supersonic?
I've seen pictures of the interior of the Concorde and it looks like it would've been pretty cramped....
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:45 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
But at that speed everything got six inches longer? Or was that just the jetframe?
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:50 pm
by kristina
I love topic drift...
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:53 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
And I love a woman who loves topic drift. Platonic-like, ya know chuck!
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:56 pm
by Gob
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:58 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Marianne Faithful gathers no moss?
Something that rhymes with genus?
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:32 am
by Joe Guy
If hadn't been for the Beatles, nobody in the U.S. would know the significance of England.
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:53 am
by loCAtek
Well, there was those Rolling Stones guys...
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:16 am
by Sean
If it hadn't been for The Beatles, The Stones would not have broken into the US so easily.
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:45 pm
by Guinevere
Gob wrote:Takes you back eh?
If you're *old* maybe
Seriously though, I do love the Beatles -- I think my early consciousness was filled with their music in the background. But my younger sister and her husband are just young enough to have missed it, and not give a damn about them at all.
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:54 pm
by Crackpot
Sean wrote:If it hadn't been for The Beatles, The Stones would not have broken into the US so easily.
Then again We wouldn't have been subjected to Oasis so it's a wash
Re: Love Me Do 50 years on
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:50 pm
by dales
Lord Jim wrote:Well, you learn something new every day...
For some reason I had always thought that I Wanna Hold Your Hand was The Beatles first hit...
It was in the US, Jim....the Beatles were not on the radar here until 1963 - - - -
Love Me Do came out in 1962 in the UK.
