Melody Maker Awards

 September 10, 1963 

You can always sit on the floor

 

The Apple Christmas Party and there isn't a seat for John and Yoko and they have to sit on the floor?  Or did they want to sit on the floor?  

Shaking hands with fan club officers

 

Amazed to meet John in Central Park

 November 21, 1980

Meet and greet with Macca

 

Good luck in the Philippines guys....

 July 3, 1966 -- Hong Kong 

When they got the purple -- oh I mean silver --- hearts

 

PR Paul is at it again

Beatles in Baltimore 1964

Shaking hands with greatness

Congratulations to the winners

Showing brotherly love

Sorry this photo is so dark -- I actually lightened it up quite a bit. 

Shake it off

These girls sure are doing a good job at acting calm as the Beatles are walking by.  I think the badges they are wearing state that they are official officers in the Beatles fan club.   Most likely they were told to be on their best behavior and not to scream, so they would got get to shake the Beatles' hands. 

Shake it up baby now

So a radio station from Connecticut ran a contest in 1965 ran a contest and the winners of the contest got to fly to London and meet the Beatles backstage during their concert at the Hammersmith Odeon!   You can see here that DJ Lee Gray and the two winners, Jill and Diane are all doing some crazy handshake backstage.  What a great prize they won!

Veljko Despot returns

Remember the Yugoslavian Beatles fan club president who met the Beatles in 1967 that I wrote about last week?   Here is another photo of him presenting Paul McCartney with a gold record in what appears to me to be around 1974?   Veljko grew up to be a full fledged reporter on rock music!   Pretty awesome!