Beatles and Baby names

The Beatles did an amazing and horrible thing at the same time. In most of the songs, they reference a name, sometimes a girl name and sometimes even a boy name. By doing this, it provides a reason for Beatles fans to name their children after those names, hey, maybe even after the song title itself!


Would you be daring enough to do this? Many generations have and I think that it will still last for generations to come. I'd like to keep it going by even naming my children after Beatles songs/Beatles referenced things (I hope).


The reason I would like to do this is because The Beatles brought me happiness and helped me through the hard parts of my life, that my children being named after Beatles song(s), they could go to it when they're down and it'll help them feel better.


In the era today, it isn't uncommon or parents to name their children to name them unique names, many of those people being famous. When The Beatles were famous, naming children uncommon names were actually very uncommon itself and I bet they would never believe that someday their songs would be used to name children.


What makes me mad about this topic is the opinion that people have against the people named after Beatles songs, that their opinion of how negative The Beatles actually were is a reason why people shouldn't name them after songs. 

I'm a kind of person that doesn't mind that people have different opinions over a topic, but why is it such a big deal that people are named after Beatles themed names? Yes, I completely understand that many people don't like The Beatles (mainly about the things they did in the 60s), but you agree that people could be named odd, non normal names? 

This is a very flexible generation and a older generations need to learn that uncommon names are going to be showing up more and more, and that things won't change just because of their opinion.


If you'd like to read an article about a young girls story about her Beatles themed name, go ahead and check it out! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/strawberry-fields-forever-beatles-teen-4538571

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Help! vs All My Loving

So I decided to start this new topic that I take 2 Beatles and kinda compare/contrast them and then talk about my likes/dislikes about them. How I decide which songs to pick, I basically put shuffle on my music list and had it pick 2 random Beatles songs. This time the songs are Help! and All My Loving 

*these are all my own opinions so if you don't agree with some of them, that's ok!*


Help! - Help! album, 1965 

~ written and sung by John Lennon 

All My Loving - With The Beatles, 1963 

~ written by Lennon/McCartney, sung by Paul McCartney 


Compare: They both have classic Beatles "reflection" topics, in which you listen to the songs and they remind you of points in your life. Both talk about a later time in life how they had lost something and want to receive it back (AML: love; H: help from someone). They talk about how they both need love, hoping that they'll never lose the love they had before.


Contrast: You can tell between the McCartney song and the Lennon song for sure. In AML, it's basically just talking about love and being away from your love, "sending your love" and "tomorrow I'll miss you", hoping that your love receives the love you can't give them (McCartney based love song). In Help!, it's basically John's cry for help, talking about his life before and putting it in the way he was feeling at the time, "won't you please, please help me". It always talks about a persons life and how you need to take new chances, doing things you've never done before, that you never thought you could do.


Likes: Both of these songs are good to listen to when you need a little pickmeup when you're feeling down. AML promises that no matter what when you're away from your love, they'll always remember that you love them and it'll keep your mind at ease. Help! tells you to forget what happeneds in the past, get help from others and yourself to make it to the future, try new things and keep yourself the way you are to make life to the fullest.


Dislikes: I'm not really a big love song fan and I've head AML so much that it's not one of my favorite ones (generic Paul love song), Help! is also one of the songs that I've heard so many times that I tend not to listen to it, plus it brings back the story in which John wrote it and it's just really, really, REALLY sad. 


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Jayci's 4 Beatles Funfacts

I'm one of those people that if you read/hear something, you'll remember it. Especially if the fact has to do about The Beatles. So these are some Beatles Funfacts that are some of my favorites (and maybe you haven't heard them before I hope not!) 

1. Ringo's first wife, Maureen Cox, was a fan of The Beatles...BUT HER FIRST KISS WASN'T WITH RINGO!: Young teenager, Maureen Cox was a very big fan of The Beatles and enjoyed going to some of their performance. So one of the times she went with her friend, she snuck backstage to see her favorite Beatle, Paul. Being an obsessive fan she was, she asked Paul for a kiss, and he gave her one. When the night ended, Maureen was walking home with her friend and another Beatle caught her eye. Ringo. They started talking and instantly hit it off. They were married not so long after the event. 

2: Abbey Road was originally supposed to be called "Everest": They had this cool idea for an ablum that The Beatles would go to Mount Everest and take a picture there for the cover, having gotten inspiration from a brand of cigarettes a man working for them smoked. Ringo thought that it wasn't that good of an idea and suggested they just stayed there and take a picture by the street closest to Abbey Road studies. BAM! The idea of the Abbey Road album. 

3: There was a chance that Ringo could have died when he was young: When Ringo was 6 years old, he suffered from an extreme appendicitis that caused him to go into a coma for a month or so. Illness followed him through the rest of his life and it actually one of the main reasons why he is a vegetarian today (caused by the sensitive stomach he has). 

4: Ringo only had schooling up until the age of 14: Like in the last funfact I talked about, Ringo was in hospitals off and on during most of his childhood. He was sent off to a sanatorium in a little bit of his teenage years, and when he managed to get out of the sanatorium and go back to school, no one remembered him there. Not even his teachers. So he decided not to go back. One plus that came out of his sanatorium stay was that one of the nurses gave him a drum set to play on to pass the time. Ringo soon found out that he was really good at it. 

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