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My memory of my own childhood is admittedly fuzzy. Specific details constantly elude me, as I try to make sense of what culture tells me is perhaps the most important chapter of my life. One thing I do remember however, is that the first song I ever truly heard, was \u2018Yellow Submarine\u2019 by The Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t know who they were then, or what sort of psychedelic album<\/a> the song existed on, I just merely loved the jovial fun of the entire track. It was routinely played as part of my primary school play time periods and without knowing better, I just assumed it was another imaginative song designed for the sponge-like minds of children.<\/p>\n But therein lies the true brilliance of the song, the band and Paul McCartney and John Lennon. They could write something that would felt so bespoke to the infant mind, yet it universally appealed to a fan base of mature adults. Moreover, it was placed on an album, that would become my undying favourite Beatles album when I grew up, and could somehow seamlessly fit behind perhaps my favourite Beatles song in the Revolver<\/a> tracklisting. Only The Beatles could bleed \u2018Here There and Everywhere\u2019 bleed into \u2018Yellow Submarine\u2019 and make it work. <\/p>\n At school, I didn\u2019t know what I know now, which is that McCartney and Lennon were the best songwriters in the world. They opened a gateway into a world that allowed me to understand music on a deeper level, and on that journey, I was introduced to even more artists who would shape my listening habits. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were all shaggy-haired members of that freethinking 1960s community I was introduced to through \u2018Yellow Submarine\u2019 and felt forever grateful to the song for doing so.<\/p>\n But as all music fans do, I went through phases, and for large spells, enjoyed the works of these legends slightly more than The Beatles. In the case of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, I became an obsessive over their first album and vehemently believed that they were the best band of all time. <\/p>\n A theory that its key member, Graham Nash, reminded me was untrue, when he said: \u201cI think that in a hundred years\u2019 time if anyone\u2019s looking back at these \u201860s that didn\u2019t finish until \u201974 when Nixon fucking got out of here, I think the only people they\u2019re going to remember are Bob and John and Paul and Joni.\u201d<\/p>\n