Memory: Help!

Whilst stood waiting for a bus in Singapore in 1965, I was suddenly surrounded by a large group of excited schoolgirls pointing, laughing and wanting to try out their english. The reason was not me but down to the fact that I was carrying a copy of the recently released "Help" album. They all wanted to know anything and everything about England and The Beatles and, although I missed my bus, I was more than happy to tell them what I knew. I was aged 21 and in the British Army at the time - I served 7 years, all of them abroad and wherever I went, The Beatles was the topic that was constant and genuinely united virtually everybody. I have travelled extensively since those days and I find that it is still more or less the same. I believe that they have brought more happiness to more people than anything else on the planet and that their music will live as long as the human species does.

Male, 64 North East England
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