I was born in 1961 and the first song I ever memorized was "Yesterday" at about 4 or 5 years of age. I cut my teeth on Beatles soundtrack albums my mom bought -- Hard Day's Night, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine.

Then for a time I rather ignored the Beatles and they ignored me.

In high school I rediscovered the Beatles and have been a die-hard fan ever since. I even wrote a song about John Lennon on the day he died.

Best lyrics? Most of them have already been mentioned. But here's one nobody has mentioned.

When I was in college, I used to make buttons (the kind like political buttons) (i had a button fall apart and would just write or draw something on a piece of paper and shove the two parts back together and voila! i had a button) and and wear them around. I worked at a campus eatery and one day I had a button on it that had some lyrics from a Lennon song.

The sun is up
The sky is blue
It's beautiful
And so are you.

and I drew a rainbow or something on it as well.

A lady in line saw it and said, "That's nice, who wrote that?"

I said, "John Lennon."

She made a face and turned away.