Classic Music

During my 11-year association with CD Review magazine (originally Digital Audio), there wasn't a day that went by that I wasn't thankful to be working in the field of music. I've always been drawn to music, dating back to those first Monkees records I heard as a kid, and to my discovery of the Beatles, and to the legions of other 1970s acts that caught my ear. I was very fortunate to land in a position where I was editing magazines that focused largely on music (and also on audio technology). The experience broadened my horizons and gave me an appreciation for all kinds of genres, including classical (thank you David Vernier, who went on to found ClassicsToday.com), jazz, folk, and blues. What an experience!

Despite that exposure to any and every style, I still usually come back to my favorites, the Beatles. The Fab Four's archive holds up amazingly well 40 and 50 years later, and I have no doubt it always will.

I suppose I'm partial to the later Beatles, because it was around the time of The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be that I glommed onto them. But on some days, I might say I'm partial to the Sgt. Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour Beatles, on other days to the Rubber Soul-Revolver-era Beatles, and still other days to those early Beatles records from 1963 and 1964. Really, it's all timeless.... And it's impossible to pick a favorite... unless maybe it's this: