Beatles inaugural U.S. visit (February 7, 1964)

This being the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first U.S. trip, the media is full of retrospectives of one sort or the other.  I hadn't quite turned eight years old, and have no recollection of the event - probably about as connected with pop culture events then as now, just for different reasons.

In grade school art class, I consistently,
and charitably, received a grade of "C".

But I do remember that my mom had bought Beatles spiral notebooks - maybe a set of four featuring all of the famous visages?  And I recently had run across mine when looking for the notebook mentioned here.  So it turns out that we were well aware of the Beatles.  And I got McCartney - probably because we shared the name Paul?  Now he's a knight, whatever that means these days.

The notebook's cover page received similar treatment as was given to plenty of baseball cards in those days, at least for players we didn't like.  I don't recall disliking McCartney, but who knows.

And then there's my drawing on the first page of the notebook, featuring the fab four performing under a starlit sky and a scruffy thing that no doubt is supposed to represent a tree.  But even my drawing isn't entirely respectful of the boys, as it includes a fellow behind the tree preparing to detonate a crude-looking bomb.  Hmm.

This particular artwork is from my personal collection - not submitted in the classroom.  Still, if a seven-year-old
handed in  something like this to a teacher in 2014, wouldn't the pupil be sent off for extended counseling?