Yeah, I loved that scene. Especially because when he found the albums he said "Whoa!" like he knew what he had discovered; like he had discovered the Rosetta Stone; like he had discovered a Bible; like a stack of albums in 1969 was like discovering a gourmet meal (for life). In 1972 I was reading almost every word in every issue of Rolling Stone. As a high school senior, I was buying one or two albums per week, devouring each. By then I had Deja vu, There's A Riot Goin' On, Sweet Baby James, etc but no Beatles. I knew how Important the Beatles were to the critics and why, and I fully intended to Go There but had not decided where to start. So when my brother brought home a very worn copy of "Abbey Road" I went 'WHOA!!'. I don't think Mark ever put that on but I sure did! "Abbey Road" wasn't my gateway drug but it certainly was my first taste of the hard stuff! To say that I 'liked' it would be an understatement. I LOVED it. I respected it. It was the Future even as it was the End. (The last Beatles album.) (No one needs to Correct me on this- It was not the last one to be released, but it was the last one Created and that's my benchmark. It was the final Word on what the Beatles represented and had become.) It was the headstone even as it was (arguably) their crowning achievement. How 'bout a Beatles thread once everyone has finished with Madonna? Jim tanya in nyc wrote: [[ in the first scene and the older sister had a fight with the mother and left to become a "stewardess". As she was leaving, she whispered to her little brother "Look under your bed, it will set you free". Under the bed, he found a whole stack of rock albums, which his mother forbade at the time. ]]
