Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Peace and love

I just read this article on the New York Times about Ringo Starr of the Beatles fame, who is turning 70 on Wednesday! As a child of the sixties myself, I listened to the Beatles and actually learned to appreciate their music a little later, in my thirties and forties.

The amazing thing to me is that everywhere I go, I still hear their music, and it's been almost fifty years ago that they were on the scene. Back when I first started this blog in March of 2009, I wrote a post about my musical journey and talked about the Beatles.

It continues to amaze me that often when walking into an elevator, a grocery store, to name a few, I will hear some old Beatles song being played. Even if the song has been re-worked to sound more like true elevator music, the song is still familiar to my ears: "All You Need Is Love," "Let It Be," and so many others sing to me of an earlier more hopeful time. I'm happy to be reminded of it.

Peace and love is what I would like, too. If I could make it happen all over the world, I would. So I will shout "Peace and love" tomorrow at noon and think of how wonderful it will be when the world is showered with it. Here's a brief excerpt from that article linked above (also where I snagged the AP picture of Ringo):
Mr. Starr is also continuing a tradition – one that started with this 2008 Access Hollywood interview – of asking fans to say the words “Peace and love” on his birthday at 12 noon. (Much easier than shouting the lyrics to “Octopus’s Garden.”) If you need to preserve your voice on Wednesday, you can also leave a message at the Beatles’ Facebook page.
Peace and love to you and yours!
:-)

17 comments:

  1. Peace and love. We could all say it every single day.

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  2. I have your art ready to mail. Just send me your address. I promise I'm trustworthy. But then again, I am a starving artist...well I haven't had desert yet if that counts.

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  3. Peace and love to you, DJan.

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  4. Peace and love. A close family friend of ours shared a flat with Ringo in Liverpool before the Beatles became so big.He had his 70th too! I used to love "Michelle ma belle" along with others.

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  5. Peace and Love at noon..cool! Oh I loved that one Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes there beneath the suburban skies..what a great song..I cannot believe he will be 70..isn't that something..I guess he is a tad older than me..somehow it seemed there was more than 12 years between our ages..eegads..I am getting old:)

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  6. It will be "Peace and Love" at noon tomorrow!

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  7. It's 12:21 I am twenty one minutes late, but better later than later! PEACE AND LOVE!

    Love,
    AL

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  8. Peace & Love tomorrow at noon.

    Let it be!

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  9. Peace and Love...if only it could happen.

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  10. This is beautiful! Thanks for posting it!

    So are you diving on Wed. and saying Peace and Love as you dive??

    I LOVE THAT!!

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  11. Ah, the memories of 1964 vividly return when I hear about the Beatles or any of their tunes. I especially like their tune "Tax Man" because the lyrics really make me laugh.

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  12. Ringo is turning 70? Holy doodle...!

    Peace and Love...!

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  13. Hey, Jan! I always go to Pandora.com, type THE BEATLES in the box, and I hear the Beatles as well as Paul, George, and even Ringo on their own albums.

    It's free. By doing that, you are creating your own radio station and will hear songs that will always appeal to you.

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  14. I enjoyed this post, Jan. I liked the Beetles when they first appears on the Ed Sullivan Show.

    My dream was a dream to dream about. I remember trying to imagine what all I could do with $547,000.00.

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  15. First album I ever bought when I was 13 was "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club" and I still know the words to every song. "When I'm 64" seemed an impossibility to my tender young self back then. I was just singing it the other day and thinking how much sense it made. Now I hope I just LIVE that long!

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  16. I love the Beatles and lived through their successes and progressions. Happy Birthday Ringo and many more of them.
    Blessings, Star

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  17. I have loved the Beatles music since the start. Some of the songs remind me of passages in my life – some funny, some sad. Peace and Love is right on.

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