Ringo's new fam

February 23, 1981 
 

John and Cyn in Cannes

 May 1965

Love to all the Mothers today!

 

I thought this photo was sweet and a nice one to share today on Mother's Day.   Wishing all of the Mothers a wonderful day!  

The Screamless Ones Weigh Up the Beatles

Elaine and Gillian kiss George 

 

These two stories are cute about two fans:  Gillian and Elaine meeting the Beatles, but they don't say HOW the got to meet them!  Maybe that part of the story needed to be kept a secret because other fans would have tried to do the same thing?   I feel like we are missing a big part of the story here!

The Screamless Ones Weigh Up The Beatles

By "A Daily Post Reporter"

Liverpool Daily Post

December 23, 1963

    In the year of the Beatles, there have been 1000 stories. This is one of them: the case of the screamless Beatlemaniacs. Their names Gillian Brighton and Elaine Shoreman, and their ages  14 and 15 years, respectively, and their homes are at West Houghton, near Bolton, and Cultheth, near Warrington. 

    Their stories, ladies and gentlemen of the mature middle aged jury is curious.  At nine o'clock yesterday morning (it should have been six, but Elaine refused to get up. ), They left Gillian's house and walked without compulsion four miles to Leigh. There, having missed the train, they caught a bus to Liverpool, where they subsequently had tea with the mother of one George Harrison, a well known local Beatle. 

    They had already had a brush with their headmistress, who was unwilling to allow them time to queue for tickets for the show in which the aforesaid Harrison and his colleagues were taking part in Liverpool last night. 

    All the evidence you may well think shows that these two young creatures are Beatlemaniacs of a most determined kind. But wait. Leaving the Harrison homestead, where the hospitable Mrs. H has had risen splendidly to the occasion. ("My mom said she won't want you there, but she was ever so nice," said Gillian.) They proceeded to the Empire Theater, and there, waiting to meet the Beatles before the show, which they couldn't see because they had to get an early train, they found themselves in the company of several newspapermen to whom they had something original to say.

     "It makes you look cheap. Screaming," declares Gillian. "Even if I came to the show," said Elaine, "I wouldn't scream. It's ridiculous. After all, you want to hear them."

     And the words of the old song it was, "I won't scream, don't ask me. " And these two fans went on to give a cool view of the boys for whom they walked four miles. "I think they're fabulous," said Gillian, "of course, the reason they are at the top is just that they came out first."  They had to come and meet them. "I just had to come and meet them," said Elaine. "George is wonderful, but when you see them up close, they do look as though they could do with a haircut, don't they?"

     And so the two screamless Beatlemaniacs paused only to give Mr. Harrison an extraordinarily demure kiss, left the theater in an orderly fashion and returned happily home. Which proves conclusively that even with Beatlemaniacs, you just never know, you know?

Praise for Beatles and their Fans

No author listed

Daily Liverpool Express

December 23, 1963

    A pat on the back for the Beatles and their fans came from the Chief Constable of Liverpool, Mr. J. T. Smith, today, following the group's one-night stand at the Empire Theater Liverpool last night. "During their recent visits to Liverpool we have received all the cooperation we could wish for from the boys. They have been very helpful indeed, especially when it comes to leaving the theater quickly after a performance," said Mr. Smith.

     "Of the 5000 fans that filled the two houses," he said "they were very well behaved. We had 50 foot policemen and 40 mounted policemen on duty last night, a lot less than the last visit. "

    The only incident police had to deal with occurred after the first house. Fans coming out of a side entrance on Lord Nelson Street heard a dressing room window being opened and rushed up to the stage door in the hope of seeing the Beatles. For several minutes, the officers on duty struggled to keep them back while the girls, about 200 of them, screamed the names of the four singers, but eventually, they cleared them down the street, and the entrance from Lime Street was then barred. 

    Just before the show, The Beatles greeted two young fans who did not have tickets for the show but who had nevertheless come quite a way to see them, Gillian Brighton, age 14, and Elaine Shoreman, age 15, pupils at Leigh Grammar School for Girls had been refused permission by their headmistress to join the queue for tickets three weeks ago, and their parents, they said, were not very keen either. 

    "But we left home at nine o'clock," said Gillian as they waited to meet the group. "And walked four miles to the station, then found we had missed the train anyway. We got a bus to Liverpool, then went to George Harrison's home. His mother was in and was terribly kind. We had tea with her. "

    "Now that we have met them, we shall just go home again, added Elaine, "I don't know what my mother is going to say. She was not very keen on the idea. And I stayed with Gillian last night so that we could slip over here. But I think it will be worth it."

     Despite their enthusiasm, however, the two girls said they would never scream at their idols. They preferred to listen, and Elaine said, "I think they could do with a bit of a haircut."

     The Beatles , on Saturday night, were presented with two golden disc replicas of the records "Let Me Hold Your Hand," [sic] and "She Loves You", each of which has topped the 100,000 sales mark. Records are currently first and second, respectively, in the Pop Hit parade. The presentation was made at the conclusion of their appearance on the independent television show Thank Your Lucky Stars.

Newly Engaged

 February 10, 1965 

Peace and Love

 

January 22, 1970 

When Stella worked with Chloe

 September 8, 1999 

Give us a smooch

 November 8, 1963 

Young and in Love

 

September 1963 

Wonderful Christmas

 

Lots of love for Ringo in Miami

 

All Thanks to a Panda Bear

 You know I love that big stuffed panda bear that became one of Julian Lennon's toys.   Here is a story about the fans that gave it to the Beatles.   It was found in the newspaper website, Express, in March 2019. 

The Beatles AMAZING Story of how one fan met the Fab 4 thanks to a stuffed toy

By George Simpson

November 20th 1963. The Beatles superfan Jacquie Graham was sixteen years ago and couldn’t get a ticket to the Fab Four’s show in Manchester. Nevertheless, she’s revealed to Express.co.uk in an exclusive interview how she ended up meeting The Beatles thanks to her panda toy. Jacquie can’t quite recall why she had the plush animal with her, but she and her friends tried their luck at the concert venue. She said: “We got to the Apollo. Knocked on the stage door and this chap came out and took the Panda.”

Jacquie continued: “He just took it out of our hands and shut the door.

“We were absolutely furious. Very, very upset.”

As a result, the girls took a taxi to the Daily Mirror in Manchester and explained to the paper what had happened.

They ended up back at the Apollo with a photographer, who managed to get into the venue and retrieve the panda toy – but that’s far from the end of the story.

Jacquie revealed: “And the next thing we know, we’re invited into the foyer of the Apollo.

“We were interviewed and then led off to another room and they were there!

“Obviously I don’t remember it in fantastic detail as it was all a blur.

“It’s all just too wonderful, like a dream. We were all just lost for words. John and Ringo gave me a kiss on each cheek.

“I can remember them fooling around and throwing the panda about.”

And incredibly for Jacquie and her friends, they were allowed to watch the show from the side.

She said: “There were no tickets available but they took us into the theatre and we stood at the side of the stage, standing, and we watched the whole show from there.”

But having given The Beatles her panda, its whereabouts are now unknown.

In fact, Jacquie’s daughter has set up a Where Is Panda Now? Facebook page to find it.

The panda did appear in later photos, with the last being of John Lennon with his son Julian in the mid-1960s.

No one’s got back to Jacquie yet, but who knows, maybe it will eventually show up.

Jacquie’s photos were sent into The People Beatles Project, which aims to crowdsource an archive of Beatles fan pictures for a book in May.  (Note from Sara:  The People Beatles Project book only printed a few copies and then it was shut down for reasons unknown to me. ) 

Jacquie revealed: “And the next thing we know, we’re invited into the foyer of the Apollo.

“We were interviewed and then led off to another room and they were there!

“Obviously I don’t remember it in fantastic detail as it was all a blur.

“It’s all just too wonderful, like a dream. We were all just lost for words. John and Ringo gave me a kiss on each cheek.

“I can remember them fooling around and throwing the panda about

Give us a kiss

 

October 5, 1976 - The Netherlands 

The classic interview

 September 8, 1971

Smooches for Paul

 Do you think this fan only kissed Paul or just went down the line kissing all four?

Funny Fish

The Beatles were given these strange dolphins -- fish -- whatever they are from Florida and the World's Fair during their New York press conference in 1964.   I think the look on their faces and how they hold them are too funny. 

Kisses in Japan

What is inside of that barrel?   Japanese tea or something? 

Peace, Love and Grapefruit

In the middle of a Beatle sandwich

We have seen some lucky fans on this site over the years, but this has to be one of the luckiest!   She is getting kissed by two Beatles at the same time!    (Maybe I am just jealous because it is my top two favorite Beatles).

Paul and Linda's wedding day

It was 49 years ago that many Beatles fans' hearts were broken --   Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman were married.      When they got married, no one was sure what to think about Linda.  However, Paul and Linda had an amazing life together.