John Lennon John is my favorite, and also one of my main idols and inspirations.  This makes it very hard for me to write anything about him, because I tend to be REALLY biased.  The fact that he's dead doesn't help either, in fact that just really makes me feel bad whenever I think about it. -_-;; I love the sarcastic, smartass way he's portrayed in the Beatles' movies, but the truth is that's not John (Although, I personally will believe that he was a smartass as a teenager until the day that I die.  How could he not be?  Come on!).  In truth, John Lennon was one of the most complicated people on the face of the planet.  That's the other thing that makes writing about him hard. -_-;;  I think that the only person who ever truly understood him was Yoko, and that makes me REALLY admire her, even if she kind of scares me. ^_^; She seems like an intelligent and creative woman too, if not an overly talented singer.  Anyway, back to John. ^_^;;  Of all the Beatles, he's the one that I know the least about. I prefer that it stay that way - it's hard to learn the short comings of the people that you truly admire, because it forces you to see them as only human.  I'd really just like to remember him by his ideals and his genius for music, and let biographers and stuff handle the rest.  The kind of clothes he wore, or the gruesome details of his tragic death just never really interested me.  I do read things that John himself has said or written, and find him more insightful and right about things in general than most people.  If he had written an autobiography, I would definitely read it.  But I don't think it's necessary, because he more than bares his soul in his songs, and especially the later ones.  And on my shallow side, he was hot when he was young. ^_^;;  Then he sort of grew into a creepy child molester-type look.  Ok, it wasn't that bad. ^_^; Really, lots of people admire John and most of them started after he died.  Somehow, after that all of his weirdness made perfect sense.  Sadly, many people hated him while he was alive just because his ideas were different.  NEWS FLASH - ALL INNOVATORS' IDEAS SEEM DIFFERENT AT FIRST!!! -_-;; Geez... By the way, does anyone else find it super creepy that in A Hard Day's Night, the manager tells him to, "sit down John, or I'll murder you."  Or that he sleeps IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND in Help!?  That's WAY too ironic for me. 0_o;;

Paul McCartney Paul is less depressing because he's still alive NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS! ^_^;; Of course, his overly cool wife Linda recently died and and that really sucks.  I think she was cooler than Paul was, she seemed like she was a very strong woman who was really willing to fight for what she believed in.  And she took a lot of crap from Paul's jealous fans too.  On the flip side, Paul scores points for marrying for love and not looks.  I mean, Linda was very pretty but she was no beauty queen and Paul pretty obviously could have had near any woman that he wanted.  He obviously loved her a lot, and I think it was because she was such a strong woman.  And he's a vegetarian, so that gets him extra points too. ^_^;;  Did I mention Paul is my second favorite?  Because he is. ^_^;; Besides being the REALLY cute one, and his super cool wife, and being a vegetarian, he was also the other main songwriter/singer besides John and his influence on the music world was nearly as great.  Not quite, but nearly. ^_^  And how could you not love him in A Hard Day's Night?  With his grandfather, he was just so... awwww. ^_^;;

Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) I used to think that Ringo was his real name when I was, like, five.  This amuses me now. ^_^;;  Seriously, Ringo is my third favorite.  He was the best actor, and the funny one, and the one that I always felt sorry for because nobody ever seemed to love him. -_-;; I mean, watch him in the movies where he always gets made fun of.  And John always bombed him in interviews (Even though it was always funny ^^;;). And he was the drummer!  Nobody ever loves the drummer!  With his big sad eyes and large nose, he always reminded me of a puppy dog that wanted a hug. ^_^;;  But everything is Ok, because he's happy and successful and has a really pretty wife and kids and stuff.  I think he grew up the nicest out of all of the Beatles (Excluding John ;_;).  I mean, have you seen him in that one commercial?  Ya know, the one where he's rhyming and stuff. ^_^;;  Does he not look cool?  Plus, he was Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station, and I used to watch that all the time when I was little.  Doesn't Ringo as Mr. Conductor just FIT somehow?  I don't know how to explain it, but it really makes sense. ^_^;

George Harrison George is my least favorite, and my mom's favorite.  Isn't that just the way? ^_^ But really, there's not much that I dislike about him.  He was just really quiet, and sort of disappeared after the Beatles split, and I don't know much about him.  He was REALLY hot in the Beatles' movies.  Damn he was hot.  But they all were then, except for poor Ringo who was just sort of Ok, except that he was cute in his puppy dog way.  George is scary looking now; last I saw he had spikey gray hair and his nose seemed bigger than Ringo's. 0_o;  When I asked my mom why George was her favorite, she responded, "I don't know... George was just cool I guess."  I'm taking this to mean the movies, in which he was pretty cool (Just not as cool as the others, and especially John, in my opinion ^_^).  I suppose a loose translation of what my mother MEANT would be, "George was hot.  Really hot. REALLY." My mom does teenybopper very well. I can just see her in the late 60s. ^_^;; He sang my second favorite Beatles' song though, "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You."  And he sounded JUST like Paul when he sang it.  Really.  Except for John, they all sound the same in A Hard Day's Night.  John sounded cooler. ^_^;;  I did love George in Yellow Submarine, but that wasn't George, that was some other guy faking his voice.  The whole, "It's all in the mind," thing makes me laugh every time that I see it.  Then again, I loved pretty much all of Yellow Submarine.  Except for Jeremy.  And the Blue Meanies.  And Old Fred.  Ok, I only like the parts with the pseudo-Beatles, but they were so great that I don't mind the rest of the movie and how much it sucked. ^_^; George is the most predictable too.  When I first heard "Within You, Without You," I knew he had written it.  Come on!  It was too Indian-y not to have been written by him.  And I like that song a lot. ^_^;;

Other Beatles Stuff - 
Um...Could this be any cooler?!? ^^;;
You've all heard of the hamster dance, right...?
The Depressing Page
Happy Again!  Quotes!
Movie, Book, and Cd reviews
My Top Ten Beatles' Songs
10. Yellow Submarine
9.  You've Got to Hide Your Love Away / Ticket to Ride
8.  Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
7.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6.  While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4.  I Should Have Known Better / All My Loveing
3.  Help!
3.  Things We Said Today
2.  I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
1.  A Day in the Life / Within You, Without You

And the Monkees.  I liked them before the Beatles, because the show was funny and the songs were ok and Davy was cute and British and... that's really about it. 0_o;;  They were obviously based on the Beatles, but the main difference between them is that the Monkees didn't really influence the music world whereas the Beatles changed it forever.  I mean, the Monkees had some nice songs (I'm pretty sure that they didn't write most of them though, unlike the Beatles).  I'm also pretty sure that they didn't play instruments, at least not at first.  But the main difference for me is that the Beatles in mind will always have an underlying serious current where I almost feel bad laughing at the movies and stuff because John is dead.  With the Monkees, the show was supposed to be funny and the members are all still alive and happy and there's no guilt involved at all. ^_^;;

Davy Jones

Look at Davy.  Davy is short and cute and British and you want to give him a hug.  Yes you do. ^_^;;  Davy is the reason that I liked the Monkees in the first place.  That and the shows were funny.  Anyway, Davy was the cute one.  Literally, that was his character in the shows.  He was always after girls, and they were always after him.  In real life Davy used to be a jockey.  Because he's short. ^_^ And he's my favorite Monkee, if you hadn't guessed.  His eyes are pretty!

Micky Dolenz

Micky is the funny Monkee in the shows.  He was my mom's favorite, and he's my second favorite, so I gues we aren't always divided on everything. ^_^;; I don't like his stupid looking poofy-fro hair in the second season, but other than that he's cool.  Everything that he did was just really off the wall and funny and Micky.  And I find it amusing that he played "Circus Boy" when he was a kid. ^_^

Michael Nesmith

Mike is my third favorite.  He's the straight man, the dry one who has a great understated humor and who always wears a green knit cap in the show NO MATTER WHAT.  The only reasons he's not my favorite are A. Davy's cuter and Britisher, B. Micky's funnier, and C. He reminds me of MY DAD.  Ick and a half. Besides, he was really pissy in real life.  But sometimes that's a good thing. ^_^;;

Peter Tork

Um... To put it bluntly, in the series Peter was the stupid one. ^_^ He was my least favorite, but I don't dislike him.  In the show he was always the underdog, sort of the Ringo of the Monkees.  And he could be really funny. ^_^;; Let me make this clear though, he was stupid in the show and NOT in real life.  Ok?  Goooood. ^_^;;

My Top Ten Monkees' Songs
10.  The Kind of Girl I Could Love
9.  Pleasant Valley Sunday / Goin' Down
8.  Listen to the Band
7.  Auntie Grizelda / No Time
6.  I'm a Believer
5.  I Wanna Be Free
4.  Last Train to Clarksville
3.  Salesman
2.  Porpoise Song
1.  Daydream Believer