I remember many years ago someone
saying that the most news-worthy events ever had happened during the decade of
the 1960s. I don’t know what constitutes “news-worthy”. We have lots of news
every day; some of it seems worth sharing and some of it does not. All I know
is that these things all happened fifty years ago. Which means not only am I more
than fifty years old, it means that if I write about the fiftieth anniversary
of all of those events, I will have plenty of blog material for the next ten years.
If you think I am off by a few years, according to Wikipedia the time period
known as the Sixties lasted from 1963 to 1974. I think they were just trying to
find the time period which had the most news-worthy events.
Why do I bring this up now? You
may have heard that this past Sunday night was the fiftieth anniversary of the
Beatles American debut on the Ed Sullivan show. I was once again too young to
really remember it. I never will be able to understand the frenzy then or the
frenzy now over any rock stars. I do find it pretty comical that at the time
the haircuts which the Beatles sported were considered rebellious. Don’t I wish
kids today were only that rebellious.
Believe it or not, I spent an
entire day writing this blog. I had to research everything I could on the
Beatles, which you could imagine was a lot of information. And now I’m not even
sharing any of it with you. Not even a picture. Because I have never actually
met the Beatles, I don’t have any pictures of them, and I hate borrowing
pictures from the internet.
So what then is the point of
this post? Besides that I can waste an entire day doing the most useless
research. I believe that is the point. We can take any event, any moment in
time and become absorbed in it, obsessed with it. Maybe that is why we remember
these anniversaries. They were part of our life, our collective single life
here on Planet Earth.
Sorry the photo is so grainy. It's from 1972. I thought I had a better photo of my sister with her guitar, but this will have to do. I have in my house right this minute three, possibly four of the items in this picture. Can you say "pack rat"? Bonus points if you can tell me who is on that album cover on the left. Super extra bonus points if you can tell me what is wrong in this picture besides the obvious (which is where is my face?). You probably would have had to know my sister to answer the super extra bonus question.
5 comments:
Well I have enlarged the pic, I have taken out the magnify glass & I have no clue. I know its NOT Elvis or Davy Jones so I will guess David Cassidy??? The super bonus--something to do with that doll??
Sorry, Denise, keep trying, you are on the right track. As far as the super bonus - here is another hint. My sister had something in common with one of the Beatles, but it is not evident in this picture, which is what bothers me.
Ok--your sister played her guitar the same as Paul McCartney which is opposite than this picture....RIGHT!!!! The album---Donny Osmond!!!! Ding, Ding, Ding!!!
Denise, I will give you the win. Paul played his guitar left-handed. My sister was left-handed, but played guitar right-handed because it is hard to find a lefty guitar. You can't just spin it around coz then the strings would be upside down. And yes, good call on the album, it is Donny Osmond,and not my album by the way.
Yayyyyyyy! See you Saturday
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