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THE BEATLES
The Beatles Recording Mistakes
Listen carefully and you’ll hear errors in several Beatles songs
I was searching everywhere for my glasses this morning. This is not an uncommon occurrence these days. It’s a problem because they are black-rimmed so are difficult to spot against my dark-coloured furniture and worktops.
If you add this to the fact I need glasses for distance and I can’t see clearly without them, my daily glasses searches are a time-consuming activity at my home. I’m often reduced to rubbing my hand over surfaces to see if I hit against the missing spectacles like a latter-day Mr Magoo — and you need to be ancient like me to get that reference.
So what’s this got to do with The Beatles apart from sharing eyesight problems with John Lennon? Not a lot but I’ll take any connection however tenuous.
It does, however, highlight that I am of that age, as Mr Magoo was, when you forget where you put your glasses just two minutes earlier or what you were even doing in the room in the first place.
I am therefore old enough to have heard The Beatles songs when they first came out although I’m not as old as Mr Magoo which is something I guess.
