...three songs. Note that they were the _first_ songs of that kind that I listened to; later the other bands made other hits, and I was very fascinated by many of them.

Beatles had published some songs before these, but I was never a big Beatles fan; in my mind their singing lacked power, and their music was mostly major music that I did not like. "Soitto on suruista tehty", says Kalevala, a thought that my father often repeated, music is made of sorrows, and though we do not have to agree with this one-sided opinion, I must admit that almost all the music that I like is minor music.