Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Who and what got you into The Beatles



It was a magic night. 
I was in Rio. This in itself was a great thing for a guy from Belo Horizonte. I went to see Tom Jones, an adorable movie. (Spoiler: he sleeps with his mother but she is not really his mother...). In the interval, I met Helio, my cousin with his first wife. A nice meeting, I loved them. 

And then I went home (Tia Sula's home). Avenida Atlantica, Rio. In a time when Rio was Rio and Avenida Atlantica was the place. And there they were: Beatlemania the poster said accompanied by a photo of four guys jumping. It was impossible to go thought without stopping to see the store window. They were different: nice guys with long hair (for the time) in a haircut style never seen before. Who are them? I never saw anything about them in Belo Horizonte. I went by but, as I said it was a magic night, I met José Carlos, one of my best friends in the middle of Avenida Atlantica and we went for pizza. The poster stayed with me and we started to hear about The Beatles. Even in Belo Horizonte. I was really into movies at the time. In fact, till today. I used to go to the cinema eight time a week average. 
I have seen all the movies screening at the time. It rested only two movies that I didn’t want to see: One a musical called West Side Story and the other was called Help! with those four Elvis Presleys (remember – I was an intellectual much into jazz and I also had a lot of bad movie experiences from my Rock and Roll time). 
I went to see the Presleys. 
I entered Cinema Acaiaca in the middle of the movie. It was continuous sessions so you could enter in the middle of the movie and stay for another session. I would not do it in an Agatha Christie movie but for a movie that I probably will forget five minutes after I left the cinema… I sat down and they were playing cards in the screen, they started to sing, instruments appeared in their hands and I sat there and my life was never the same again.

Who and what got you into the Beatles