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| A plaque outside the King Arm Hotel, Berkwick, states that Charles Dickens stayed there during his lifetime. Now the management could erect another plaque stating that the Beatles stayed there. Ringo, Paul, John, and George stayed overnight in the hotel on their way to Glasgow, but few people knew about it. John Lennon turns to crack a joke to Ringo Starr and George Harrison, but Paul McCartney was missing. |
Beatles Came in Night and Slipped Away - Cloak of Secrecy Beat Fans
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Berwick Advertiser
December 9, 1965
The Beatles: John, Paul, George, and Ringo slipped in and out of Berwick in a cloak of secrecy on Friday. Only a handful of people knew that they had arrived, and they were planning to head north on Friday afternoon.
It was all so different from the amazing scenes when the Beatles were expected and never came. Then there were crowds everywhere, crowds who waited, hopeful but fruitless.
Hardly anyone saw them go on Friday, and even fewer saw their arrival in the early hours of the morning. The famous Four chart toppers, MBEs, idols of the pop lovers, crept quietly upstairs to their rooms in the King's Arms Hotel in Hide Hill. They had breakfast in bed, and just after lunchtime, they slipped out of the hotel with little fuss.
The management and the staff of the King's Arms Hotel were sworn to secrecy. Police knew the famous Four were in town. They, too, kept it quiet, and hardly anybody else knew until the last minute that the Beatles were in town.
They left Berwick in a rainstorm in a black Austin Princess car with the rear windows clouded over.
The Beatles had been in town, and they had left without a Yeah, yeah, yeah. Left with a ticket to ride in comfort, without crowds or hysteria.
A few miles up the road, misfortune befell one of George Harrison's three guitars. It fell from the car onto the A1 road and broke.
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