Deadheads eat your heart out!

I found this article in the letters of the editor in that Jan 1967 issue of Teen Datebook. I think it is SO COOL that these fans actually followed the Beatles around during their entire 1966 North American Tour! Deadheads have been doing this for years, but I think these Beatle fans have them beat! I seriously wonder if this is the first known group of fans to actually follow a group around on a tour. Maybe not, but it is cool to think that it is. I also scanned so photos of the 1966 tour (my favorite!) from the magazine.

Some of my friends and I got a wonderful idea when we heard that the Beatles were coming. We decided to follow the Beatles on their whole American tour. We started to get part-time jobs during the school year to earn the money. And by July we had saved $320 for the tour. We bought tickets to every evening performance - that cost was exactly $75.50 apiece. And we rented a bus that cost us $110 for three weeks.

The best part of all was that in Memphis we got into the press conference. When the Beatles entered the Coliseum by bus, I ran up the bus and saw George and Paul looking out of the window at me. George pointed to my hair style - I think it was a little longer than his. I waved and they waved and smiled back. Boy, it was a great feeling to know that two great people like that were for real.

I'd say their best performance was in New York. That crowd was something. I never heard so much noise in my life. While in Los Angeles, the six of us - Dave, Jesus, Mike, Him, Bill and myself- stayed with a friend of ours. We had a gas of a time this summer and now we're back home in Chicago.

We read in the paper here that the Beatles aren't coming back to America anymore. They just have to come back! We already have jobs after school, earning money for their next tour!

You other Beatle fans - let's get together and all write the Beatles, asking them to come back. ---Gerald "Wayout" Langford, 17, Chicago, IL.