When García Márquez was not yet García Márquez and lived a life of precariousness in Mexico,
he had only two albums
: one by Debussy and the first album by the Beatles.
Those who saw them write “One Hundred Years of Solitude” at that time said that in his house they could only hear the music of his typewriter, the screams of his two children, and his only two records.
Many years later, after the murder of John Lennon, Gabo published an article in the Spanish newspaper El País in which he evoked the importance that the English band had in popular culture.
“The only common nostalgia you have with your children are Beatles songs
,” he wrote.
Much more time had to pass until one random weekend, heading to Mar del Plata, I checked it with the playlist of the trip that my son chose.
What else can a twenty-something man and a woman one and a half times his age have in common?
There was not a single argument between the pilot and co-pilot
.
“Get Back” started playing as soon as we left the Gutiérrez roundabout behind.
“Go back where you once belonged,” the song says.
And returning to the moments we lived was then our involuntary starting point.
Do you remember the documentary we saw about the origin of Get Back?
And how did they touch her on that terrace?
Obvious.
That was the band's last concert on the roof of Apple Corps.
None of the Beatles knew it yet, but after the last note of “Get Back,” the four looked at each other, smiled, and without saying anything walked down from the terrace.
The separation was confirmed a few months later.
But that melody still continues to resonate in the
collective memory of several generations
.
Just like “All you need is love”, the song we sing now, arriving in Chascomús.
Did you know that Dad and I got married with this song?
It was a day of torrential rain and we all ended up dancing to the Beatles.
An unforgettable party, son.
The Beatles, a life playlist.
Photo: AFP
Pains.
Quick stop and change to the wheel.
“Something” plays.
We remember when we went to see Paul McCartney at the Unico stadium in La Plata.
Twice.
And both times Paul dedicated the song to George Harrison.
Will he return to the country?
Let's go, right?
“Hey Jude” we clash like two crazy people in Maipú.
And the entire dusk enters through the low windows.
The sun is now just a red nail above the horizon.
Paul wrote that song to console Lennon's son Julian after his father's divorce from Cynthia Powell.
And your father used to sing it to you when you couldn't fall asleep...Better, better, better, oh, yeah / Na, na-na-na-na-na-na, hey, Jude
Penny Lane immortalized in song in John and Paul's childhood neighborhood.
Camet, “Penny Lane” and that flashback from 2013 when we visited Liverpool.
Do you remember the sign on that street?
We have the photo at home.
And on Abbey Road, appropriately.
Constitución Avenue and the sea.
It doesn't matter when you read this, or what bands you listen to, or what generation you are from.
Because we already know that music is one thing and the Beatles are another.
Without them we would all be orphans.
And no one could explain to us how we got here.
See also
See also
Chiche, Jorge and the true love story carved into a rock in Mar del Plata