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PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

In the several years before the Beatles first gained popularity, in the months of late 1962 when "Love Me Do" began to sell well in the British market, they practiced and played a great deal. A chart showing their 'cumulative performances' indicates how they began to practice and play more and more in late 1959 and until 1963 they practiced and practiced, played and played. Their success, R.W. Weisberg argues, from 1962 onwards was partly due to this extensive practicing. While all of this practicing was going on, from late 1959 to late 1962, I joined the Baha'i Faith and finished high school. These foundation years for the Beatles, their rise to fame in this earliest stage of their career, 1959 to 1962, was a note in popular culture played in the background to the most significant development in my personal life from the age of 15 to 18, the first three years of my commitment to the Baha'i teachings and to satisfying my erotic life. Both exercises have been very demanding, involved much loss and gain. -Ron Price with thanks to Robert Sternberg, Handbook of Creativity, Cambridge UP, 1999, p.238.

The Beatles did not exist for me,

back then, in my adolescence

when I was going to school,

getting depressed for the first time,

and sorting out who I was:

Erikson's identity. And I did, partly.

The Beatles were entirely on the periphery,

so far from centre that they nearly slipped

into non-existence, remote from the magnetic

attraction of the sun of my interest,

flying into irretrievable remoteness where

they have remained all mylife. This most famous

of music groups in the last half of the century,

rising from anonymity while other things

began to occupy my soul and the edges

of my world, vulnerable. Something like

the Beatles could easily slip into remoteness

like so many things and be quite irretrievable.

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