That band The Beatles may not have been the first rock and roll band in history, but they are certainly the most celebrated and influential band in my life - and probably yours, too. Back in 1963 I was at Friarswood School in Newcastle under Lyme. I was 10 years old. I was part of the school play. I was - funnily enough - chosen to be the MC (I had no idea this was to be my "calling" back then, I tell you!) I remember wearing a white coat with a stethoscope around my neck, introducing the first skit. A "hospital drama" involving a light projected from behind onto a white sheet, with the silhouettes of doctors and nurses and a prostrate patient having all sort of things "removed" from his body! Next up were four young lads - three of them bearing cardboard cutout guitars, and one seated behind a cardboard bass drum. They mimed "She Loves You" and shook their fringes and "woo-ed" passionately. I don't recall what I said about them, but this memory only recently resurfaced. I think it says a lot about the impact of The Beatles, that a bunch of 10 year old kids in 1963 were so into the music even then.