A Day In The Life // The Beatles
Alex Turner was once quoted as saying “there is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.” For me (and also many others) that band was The Beatles. I was around 12 years old, and I vividly remember looking through my Grandparents’ CD collection and coming across The Beatles 1967-1970 compilation album. Out of curiosity, I slipped it into my schoolbag, and later slipped it into my CD player. ‘A Day In the Life’ was the first song I truly fell in love with and it still remains my all time favourite song. Before this point, I never really took an active interest in music, nor did I realise how incredible some songs could make you feel. The slow guitar and staccato piano chords combined with Lennon’s dreamy vocals still successfully manage to capture and pull me in; the thunderous orchestral build up between the two sections of the song is genius. The Beatles marked a point in my life where I changed a lot, and if I had not taken that CD from my grandparents’ collection on a whim that day, then I probably wouldn’t have discovered my love for music at all – which means that I would most definitely not be sat here writing an amazing feature about the soundtrack to my life for you lucky lot.