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Just got the Magical Mystery Tour DVD the other day and sat down to watch it...Was anybody else blown away by the I AM THE WALRUS video part?? I know I saw it YEARS ago, but seeing it NOW is just too much!! I loved it!

Chris...you woudn't by any chance be a Beatles fan?

Jerry, you are indeed a genius!! I try to hide it, I try to fight it, but people just know instinctively that I am a beatles fan!! I grew up with two older brothers who were BIG Beatles fans but I really got interested in them in high school back in the mid-late 70's and I've just collected stuff over the years and my interest hasn't waned....it is a sickness...

I've had that sickness since early in 1964. Beatlemania they call it, there is no cure.

I love the fact thet new fans are continually being churned out. My wife was born five years after the Beatles broke up, in a country that didn't encourage western influences (Vietnam). Almost every Beatle song was new to her 3 years ago, except for the obvious. She loves 'em (yeah3x), I'm having a blast imparting my vast knowledge about them (cough). Often I'll come home from work and they'll be on the CD. Now she accuses me of trying to sound like them or lifting my eyebrow in an imitation of McCartney (it's my habit, too, dammit!).

New Beatle fans are born every day. My wife was born in '80 and is a huge Beatles fan. I wonder if playing bass in a Beatles tribute band had anything to do with her marrying me? Hmm...

My daughter is 4 years old. She asks to watch "Yellow Submarine" nearly every night, and the soundtrack to the film is the most-played CD in the car by far. When I showed her photos of the "real" Beatles, it took her by surprise.

Whenever I play some Beatles music she hadn't heard before, she always reacts to it. The other day she was walking around the house singing "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah."

She once told me that she wants the Beatles to come to our house so that she can give them a big hug. I told her that they lived very far away.

She's off to a good start in her musical education, I'd say. (She also likes it when I play "Four on Six" by Wes Montgomery on my guitar!!)

My kids (7 & 4) love Yellow Submarine as well. Having said that, I enjoy it more now than I did originally.

ive been a beatle fan since 62' and im only 16!

Did you get it off of eBay? I've got an older DVD, but I've been hoping for a new one someday, with lots of extras, etc.

My twenty month year old points to the beatles first visit to the us dvd and points saying yeah, yeah, my three year old asks me to sing eight days a week in the car all the time and my six year old constantly listens to them and listens to my collection.

I find it particularly cute, especially with my littlest ones, because as they are French & American in France, there American pronounciation is for the time being is with a heavy French accent.
It is so right what everyone says about how almost all their songs remain so fresh and great. I recently reviewed the anthology part in australia where they sing you can't do that and it has been running in my head for two weeks plus. Even my oldest son is signing it outloud.

Before the arrival of dvds, the only english videos that I had were my beatles anthology. When my oldest was about 1 1/2, I started to regularly watch the shea stadium segment to improve his English. It was quite helpful in his learning his other "native tongue".

My 2 daughters have loved the Beatles(Dads influence!) since they were toddlers,the youngest would watch "Help" on video every weekend that they stayed..."Daddy, can i watch the "Rings" movie? My eldest(now 19) wanted the No.1 album for a recent birthday.They were a magic band that continue to influence every new generation.My band do a rocking tribute to them with "i saw her standing there" and "twist and shout".Well?... i've got a Rickenbacker!...when in Rome....!

you bought a rickenbacker here in rome? cool!

The saying.."when in Rome..Do as the Romans do!", in my case, "when you've got a rickenbacker... do a Beatles song!"