u/MonikonPerfekti

This became a kind of turning point in my life when I was 12 (1990) and got the “Blue Double” as a Christmas present. Every now and then, Strawberry Fields Forever had came on the radio, I especially fell in love with the cello parts 🎻.

Once I got the chance to ask my father “what band is that?”. When my father told me it was The Beatles, I didn’t believe him at first 😂, my prejudice were in _Yesterday, Let It Be and I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Yellow Submarine_. Yeah – good songs but the only one I really liked was _Yesterday_. I asked as a Christmas present the album, where _Strawberry Fields Forever_ is.

The Blue Double also included _Here Comes the Sun, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, Something, Penny Lane, Wjile My Guitar Gently Weeps_ … songs I had heard, some unheard, and loved before but never knew were by The Beatles. Here Comes The Sun This box is durable hard plastic, and was freakin' expensive... But worth it, I've been a great fan since (then alongside Queen and Roxette 😁). Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮❤️.

Finnish players Veli-Pekka Ketola and Heikki "Hexi" Riihiranta posing 1974 and Ketola with his family in Winnipeg's streets same year

God of Finland Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (bald, with mighty glasses) watching ice hockey's world championship's in Helsinki 1974. Photographer has chosen the right angle, behind his head is Helsinki's coat of arms and the crown

"Korvensuu" was the first — and so far the only truly indigenous Finnish _passenger car_ (1913)

Finnish stamps from 2014, artist: Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)

Game changer from 35,5 years ago 💙

Les Paul and Paul with Paul's Les Paul

Broken shower clouds over Oulu, Northern Finland, at exactly midnight between Sunday, May 10 and Monday, May 11.

Leijonien lopullinen joukkue jääkiekon MM-kisoihin Sveitsissä 15.–31.5.2026. Lähde: YLE.

Norlets and Swedlets 🤏