By now I am sure that all of the visitors of this blog are familiar with the fact that our friend, Lizzie and her pal, Gayleen sang the background vocals on the song "Across the Universe." They were in the recording studio with the guys and made the record. And while that has to be the top coolest thing any fan has done, I think these young girls come in at a close second place.
In July 1968, Paul McCartney produced Mary Hopkin's single "those were the days" at Trident studios in London. A girl's choir was needed to sing on the song, and so some girls from a nearby school were chosen to sing the background vocals. Can you even imagine how exciting it must have been for those girls to not just be in a recording studio, but to have Paul McCartney there! I love the publicity photo that was taken with the girls along with Mary and Paul. You see that Paul has taken one of the girl's hat and she is just looking at him in amazement. Several others girls seem to care less that they are being photographed and are just gazing at Paul McCartney.
I love this! Don't remember seeing these photos at the time - oh, now I know why! - I was back in Rio visiting my family at that time in 1968 (cursing every day I was missing on my "Beatling"!). I just remembered Paul once asked me "don't you miss your mom?" to which I replied "no". Tell a 15-year-old she can see John Lennon almost every day and ask her if she misses anyone else in the world... including her own mother!
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