Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Thank U very much


I love this!   I found this in the Christie's auction catalog from October 2001.

This is what it says about this:

Whilst the Beatles were staying in Stockholm in October 1963,  the owner and her friends gathered outside their hotel and sent up some Swedish souvenirs with a request to talk to the group about setting up the Swedish Beatles' Fan club.  In response, the girls received this letter, written on the inside of the envelope they had sent up.

The Beatles' visit to Sweden in October 1963 was the first tour outside the U.K.   On the second night of the tour, they performed two concerts, the first at 5:00 pm, the second at 8:00 pm.  The owner attended both concerts at which she took photographs.

She met the Beatles on three occasions during this tour.  The first of these was at Stockholm airport where she and a few friends had gathered to welcome the band to Sweden.  She and a friend then accompanied Swedish D.J. Klas Burling in his car back to Stockholm with none other than John Lennon.  The journey lasted an hour, giving them plenty of time to ask him all the questions they wanted.  She then met the group between the two Stockholm concerts and again four days later, when they appeared on the t.v. show, Drop In, recorded in Stockholm before a live audience.  These meetings led to a life-long admiration of the group and in particular, Paul McCartney and she became Vice-President and later President of the Swedish Beatles Fan Club.

6 comments:

  1. Is anyone able to tell who wrote the letter?

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    1. oops....I didn't say that Paul wrote the letter according to the caption in the catalog.

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  2. Yes I would say Paul wrote it. It looks like his hand writing.

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  3. There was already a Swedish Beatles fan club in operation when the Beatles arrived in Sweden. Many among the audience at the Drop-In TV-show were fan club members, secretairies etc.

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    1. Maybe that was some error. Perhaps the report meant to say that they wanted to discuss the fan club, especially since they saw them at the Drop In show. These auction cataloges have great stuff in them, but you can't always count on the information as being reliable.

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  4. Definately Pauls writing. Great letter!

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