By Paul Losch
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
(More)About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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I remember 50 years ago today when I watched the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. Pretty typical 10 year old in a typical US suburb, sitting in my family's living room watching a black and white TV.
There are composers and musical artists who have contributed to the genre of popular music. In my parents' youth, there were the likes of Cole Porter, Sammy Kahn, Sinatra, inter alia.
I don't think anyone in that era did better than what the Beatles did—compose, record, entertain. Interestingly, they tired of the entertainment aspect of their persona, and some of the richest music emerged after they stopped touring. Timeless stuff.
Still my favorite band.
