Meeting Beatles some Experience!
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Kingsport Times
August 19, 1965
Two Kingsport disc jockeys who returned here today from Atlanta, Georgia, may well be the envy of scores of teenagers in the area.
They returned with pictures, tape recordings, and at least one bonafide souvenir from a face-to-face interview with The Beatles, a British rock and roll singing group.
As DJ Gary Morse put it, "It was some experience!" Morse and fellow WKIN announcer Rusty Cury were among the 200 press representatives attending a press conference with the teenage idols prior to their appearance at Atlanta Stadium Wednesday night.
Among other things, the disc jockeys learned that Ringo Starr, a member of the mop-headed group, will become a father "before too long" and that the singers don't think too much of another rock and roll singer, Elvis Presley. "We liked him a lot better when he was a little newer on the scene." The singers told the Kingsport disc jockeys, but they added, "he's middle aged"now.
Cury has what some teenage teenagers would value as a priceless memento of the occasion, a pencil which Ringo idly chewed on during the press conference and left behind following the interview.
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