Take a New Year's Eve lesson from the Beatles before they were big
In 1962’s final moments, the Beatles were in one of the last places they wished to be. They were wrapping up their final club residency in Hamburg, where they’d cut musical teeth worthy of a lion’s mouth.
But Hamburg wasn’t where the Beatles believed the action was. Their first single, “Love Me Do,” had popped in the autumn, reaching No. 17 in the charts. The band was anxious to get back in the studio and throw themselves headlong into a future they hoped would be replete with triumph upon triumph.
We tend to be a lot like those Hamburg Beatles ourselves at the end of December. We’re so often not where we wish to be, an idea that transcends geography. The thinking is: 11:59 will become 12:00, Dec. 31 bumped aside for Jan. 1, and we can get started again properly.
Source: Colin Fleming/nypost.com
