The purpose of this site is share our love for the Beatles and tell our stories
about how the Beatles have changed our lives for the better.
And in so doing, we hope to share this love and spread it around the world, just
as the Beatles did when they were still together.
Fixing A Hole -- Beatles fans coming together to take this world and make it better.
Fixing A Hole: Featured Essays
How I Spent I-BFD!
by Jude Kessler I-BFD, International Beatles Freak Day, was celebrated by Beatles fans all over the world this year on January 14. This is how I spent International Beatles Freak Day! [More...]
Keeping the faith and believing in the Beatles
by Sharyn Hermann It all began when I was 14. I was in the car with my older teenage brother and his girlfriend, when suddenly this group came on the radio... The first year of The Beatles tour, my friends and I begged our parents to let us go to Jacksonville, Florida to see the boys perform. We saw them again in Atlanta. I remember crying through the whole concert. [More...]
Beatles fan knows all you need is love
by Dave Bakke Music has powers to soothe. Jim and Maureen Kiesow learned that after their son, Tim, was born with disabilities. They kept finding ways to bring music into Tim's life, encouraging him to beat on metal pans and, later, a silver and blue drum set. Eventually, there was a certain type of music that he responded to best: Beatles music. [More...]
An Open Letter to Ringo
by Jude Kessler Dear Ring, Just wanted to take a few moments at the beginning of this year to let you know that despite the venom and criticism hurled by a few very vocal and bitter wacks out there, there are still plenty of us fans who love you, miss you, and wish you real joy. You have had to put up with more than any human should have to endure. But please also know that you are loved more than most. [More...]
Why I love those silly Beatles cartoons
by Mitchell Axelrod In my travels promoting my book "Beatletoons - The Real Story Behind The Cartoon Beatles", many people have asked me, "why do you have such a passion for the Beatles cartoon series?" I thought long and hard about that question and I have come up with an answer. But in order to explain, I have to take you "back through the midst of time" (apologies to Sir Paul for using his tour line). [More...]
The Long and Winding High Road
by John O'Leary Even while in shock from his abrupt dismissal from the Beatles in 1962, Pete Best took the high road, and talked road manager Neil Aspinall into sticking with the band, despite his outrage at Pete's firing. Pete knew the band would be hugely successful and he didn't want his friend Neil to miss out. [More...]
They were my safe place
by Jude Kessler This poem was written with love for one of my readers of Shoulda Been There, Kelly, who wrote to me to tell me that all of her life The Beatles had been a "safe place" for her. She had endured a great deal of emotional and physical pain, but The Beatles' music had always been a place where she could feel secure and loved and protected. [More...]
Hard Rock, Soft Heart
by Jude Kessler The real focus of Nights in the Vault is the strength of the spirit that many Beatles fans share. Far from mindlessly singing, "All you need is love," many Beatles aficionados have truly incorporated this core belief into their daily lives and have found themselves the better for it. [More...]
Back In The U.S.S.R.
by Peter Moschis Of all the words written of the significance and impact of the Beatles, none I believe, is more profound than those words spoken by Mikhail Gorbachev, who said, "more than any ideology, more than any religion, more than Vietnam or any war or nuclear bomb, the single most important reason for the diffusion of the Cold War was...the Beatles." [More...]
On a wing and a prayer
by Jude Kessler A couple of weeks ago, I was in Chicago at the Fest for Beatle Fans, madly selling my new Lennon book when "out of the blue", a lovely lady named Sherry stepped up to my table and widened my world view forever. With a quiet and sincere honesty, she whispered to me that she communicated frequently with John. [More...]
It's just a state of mind
by Dave Haber At any one time, it seems half the country is mad at and/or hates the other half. Each side says the other side is "polarizing," but it seems to me that both sides are equally to blame. And it seems that there isn't any hope for both sides to ever "get along." And then the Beatles song Rain came on my iPod. [More...]
