Showing posts with label Australia tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia tour. Show all posts

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Birthday party memories

Paul and Delphine at his 22nd birthday party in Sydney 


 
With Paul heading to Australia this week, I thought I'd look at information about when the Beatles traveled to that continent in 1964.   I watched a documentary from 1994 called "The Beatles Down Under"  and discovered this story from the blond girl in these photos, Delphine Dockerill (age 17).  She entered a contest to win an invite to Paul's birthday party. 


"I won because I was able to tell a white lie and I think it appealed to the judges.  I said I used to play with Paul as a child in Liverpool and I'd like to see if he remembers me now how I am today.  In fact...I'd never been to Liverpool."

"I liked Paul McCartney.  He's the one I remember dancing with a great deal of the night.  I can say Paul was a very good dancer."

"We did dance slowly but I can't comment on anything else.  That's too far in the past."


Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Monday, June 14, 2021

Ringo and his Koala (part 2)









 June 14, 1964 --  Ringo arrives in Sydney will his new koala bear friend still with him.  He is showing off his passport because Ringo was able to leave England without it.   He had forgotten to get it and someone went back to his passport from his house.   Because he was a Beatle, he was allowed to fly to San Francisco without having a passport!  That would never happen today.  

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Ringo and the Koala Bear






 The stuffed koala bear was a gift from one of the many fan club presidents in San Francisco.  June 13, 1964 - San Francisco, California