The Beatles

By: Laura Tristán

When I was a little girl, I had a small blue record player. My mom used to lend me her records, the little ones with only two songs, one on each side. My favorite was one of The Beatles. On one side, “Day Tripper” was playing and on the other, and my favorite to this day, “We Can Work It Out.”

When my mom could not wake me up for school, she would go and put that record on and immediately everything would change. Since then, those 4 people on the cover of that record have been part of my life. I think I learned their names first than the days of the week!

The Beatles have been in every moment that life has given or taken something from me. They are in the colors yellow and white. They are on the smiles of many celebrated birthdays.

Paul still amazes me, George comes along when I am looking for peace of mind, John gives me love that I can feel and touch, and Ringo makes me look for his carefree rhythm when I want to change places.

They continue to surprise me with images from other times, with black suits and long hair or wearing crazy colors and sounds.

There are days when a song comes out of nowhere and it transports me in a yellow submarine to a strawberry field or from a street in Liverpool to the rooftop of a building in London.

Their music envelops me and makes me close my eyes for just a few seconds and a determined LET IT BE comes out of my heart!