For my sister’s birthday a few years ago, I was searching online for something special for her for her birthday. I was able to find it on the local craigslist - a gal had been a member of the original Beatles fans club had a poster she got through the club with the original fan club tag on it - it’s a very cool poster of the Fab Four back in the day. I bought it and framed it and my sister was surprised and loved it. Our cousin, who is a YUGE Beatles fan, was a little jealous ;-)
We went to see McCartney and Wings (Linda was still with them at the time) when they were here some years ago -
enjoyed them, but not the same as seeing the Beatles.
I have quite a lot of Beatles things like a neat pin and when you open it there’s miniature pics of the Beatles that my Pen-Pal of 53 years sent my sometime in the 60’s. I sent her a gold charm of President Kennedy sitting in a rocking chair. Jeweler over there had her put a safety on her charm bracket because of it.
I saw McCartney/Wings during their “Venus & Mars” tour in Cincinnati. Great show with 30,000 of my closest friends...but not the Beatles.
A friend & former business associate is a highly acclaimed mastering engineer based in LA. A number of years ago he traveled to Abbey Road to finalize his remastering of the Beatles catalogue. During that process, he was able to make copies of the master tapes...and later provided me with same including unreleased demo tracks.
Amazing sound quality from those vacuum tube consoles.
That said...
The recent 24-bit remasters managed by Giles Martin (George’s son) used very, very little noise reduction and these are now THE best sounding versions of the Beatles catalogue. HIGHLY recommended for Beatles fans wanting the best sonic versions of the UK albums.