Meet the Beatles for Real: train

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Fan Besiege Beatles on Italy Tour

Fans Beseige Beatles on Italy Tour

No writer listed

Coventry Evening Telegraph

June 24, 1965

The police allowed only passengers onto the platform when the Beatles arrived at Milan by rail today

for an Italian tour. However, 1,000 teenage fans managed to gather around the ban. They besieged

the ticket office hours before the scheduled arrival, buying tickets to neighboring stations. When the

quartet arrived, the fans, thwarted by a last-minute switch in the arrival platform, charged across the

station waving placards with slogans such as “God, save the Beatles” and “Viva The Beatles.”

Those at the front of the mob got a brief glimpse of John Paul, George, and Ringo being hustled into

cars, bound for their hotel. It is the group's first visit to Italy. Their first two concerts tonight are at a

Milan sports stadium, seating about 26,000. Later, they go on to Genoa and Rome.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Oooh! A Kiss from Paul!

Photo taken by Maurice Tibbles

Oooh! A Kiss From Paul!

Writer not listed

Daily Mirror

March 4, 1964

There were tears as little Allison Clark went to bed last night. Tears of joy. For she had seen, touched, and kissed the Beatles.

Allison is four, and the Beatles are the greatest thing in the life of this little hole-in-the-heart girl. That is why Allison was with her mother at the station in Minehead Somerset yesterday, as the five-coach Beatles special arrived from Paddington.

Ringo, John, and Paul were told about the sad little girl who had cried herself to sleep because she missed seeing them on Monday, and they went onto the platform to meet Allison. George Harrison was the only Beatle missing. He was lunching.

At first, Allison was too shy to speak, but when Paul McCartney picked her up, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. Paul is her favorite Beatle. Ringo Starr gave her a big kiss. There were photographs too. "Watch the birdie," said Paul as they were photographed together before the boys got back on the train. It is running again today and tomorrow for the shooting of the Beatle's first film.

Allison handed them a teddy bear dressed in a Beatles jacket. Allison, one of a family of eight children, went to Minehead from her home in Whitecroft Williton, 15 miles away from the 500 screaming fans besieging the station.

Her mother, Miss Rosie Clark, said, "Allison has been in the care of heart specialists since she was born. She is Beatles mad, and her little bedroom is full of their photographs. They were such nice boys to talk to her. I know Allison will never forget the 10 minutes she was with them."