Late one night, not very long ago, I had a dream that the Beatles were still among us, making us laugh and sing in the same way they did when they were the undisputed Princes of the Planet Earth all those years ago. That’s what was so wonderful about the Fab Four: they not only sang like the scruffy angels they were, but they were so damned funny! All one has to do is view the films “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” and you’re once again reminded that they were a great comedy team – one of the greatest. When I awoke from that dream – thinking it had been real – the blunt realization that the Beatles are gone forever was too depressing to even contemplate.

In 1995, the night the video “Free As a Bird” premiered on national television (the first “new” Beatles song in over a quarter of a century), I watched it with a young woman who was born in 1970, the year they broke up. Hearing them sing together again – Paul and George sounding strong and clear; John, by that time long dead, his voice transferred from an old and faded cassette tape, sounding as if he were singing from far, far away – was a very moving experience. When she noticed my reaction, she laughed and said, “Oh, Tom! What’s the big deal”? I told her that no one who didn’t live through that turbulent era, could possibly understand what that band meant to their troubled generation.

With our love
We could save the world
If they only knew….

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY.