When I was younger my dad told me that you had to like The Beatles to be an american (even though I knew they were not american). For a long time I thought it was the law to like The Beatles. I was even nicknamed (and I'm still called) Abbey- after the Abbey Road album!
A childhood belief about pop stars

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought the Beatles really were bugs.— Spongekid
- I'm an American, and for a good long while I thought that Boxing Day involved the sport of boxing.— miss Taken
- I used to think the Beatles were gay because they all lived together in a yellow submarine.— Amanda
- I used to think that the Beatles broke up when John Lennon died.— Shirley B.
- cause i'm just a paper bag rider....
or it might have been paperback writer by the beatles....Anon - When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon