I was born in 1968, what do I care about the stinking Beatles?
I missed the whole free-love scene, so taken as a rock band, they just don't rock.....
Me too - barely! I have never understood the absolute frenzied obsession the Beatles engendered.
You are the right age to have been a result of it. ;~))
BTW. I was there, and for the most part, the Beatles sucked but they became like Cabbage Patch Dolls -- massive hype for an ugly toy. Mass marketing works.
I was also born in 1968. My parents preceded the whole Baby Boom (they were born in the 1930s and lived through WWII).
I was exposed to Yellow Submarine as a kid but essentially "discovered" the Beatles on my own in 1975 when I caught a daytime tv broadcast of Help! Musically I liked the band (much better than the crap on the radio in Lafeyette Louisiana, except maybe Brownsville Station; decades later I would learn that Cub Koda and I shared appreciation of Andre Williams, Link Wray, and Chuck Berry songs but as a small child I knew NOTHING of these artists).
I slowly collected up Beatles albums (1976-1981) from garage sales and birthday gifts. I STILL don't have Let It Be or Abbey Road.
I'm listening to the Beatles' Christmas recordings right now.
They helped revitalize rock and roll (and spawn countless cool garage bands in the 1960s when high school kids picked up guitars to get chicks) while at the same time making it entirely too serious and bloated with the concept of concept albums.