Fab 4 Mania -- a new blog!

I am very excited to tell you about a new blog called Fab 4 Mania.    The blog is a 1st generation Beatle fan, Carol's story of her living through Beatlemania in 1965 up to and including seeing the Beatles in concert in Chicago in 1965!    Carol is posting pages from her diary from 50 years ago.   So 50 years exactly to the day you get the opportunity to read what was going through the mind of a young Beatle fan.    You all know that I love the accounts of our first generation Beatle friends.   I think it is extremely important for fans to share their experiences and stories, so this blog has the MTBFR stamp of approval!

And the better news?   Carol is turning her blog into a book for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles Chicago performance.    So go check out this blog and got back in time to 1965!

Did Beatle fans wet their pants at concerts??

Here at Meet the Beatles for Real, we are often discussing Beatle fans and their behavior at Beatles concerts.      We have seen photos and read reports of girls screaming, fainting, pulling at their hair, crying, staring in shock, running onto the field or up onto the stage, and behaving in some pretty unbelievable ways for young pre-teen and teenager girls.    And it is understandable (at least to me) because the Beatles have that certain something that makes you react in some emotional way.    I still see fans crying at Paul McCartney concerts and I honestly have to hold back a scream every single time I hear that opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night."    The Beatles cause an emotional response from those of us who love them. 

Last year the Huffington Post had this story where they claimed that Beatles concerts had the smell of urine.    They said that the female fans were going so out of control that they were unable to control their bladders and urinated on the floor.    Now I read that and thought to myself, "Really?   Well I guess it is possible, but I have never heard of that before.....seems kind of strange."    But one blogger named Elaine Viets wrote a very good article about this very topic:   female Beatle fans peeing themselves.    So contacted Elaine and she is happy to have her article linked on this blog so all of you can read what she said on this topic.   I found it to be pretty funny and yet interesting at the same time and I thought you all would enjoy it as well.


 
http://femmesfatales.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/08/beatlemania-in-the-1960s-theyre-all-wet.html




So what do you think?   Was this really happening around the world?    If you were at a Beatles concert do you recall smelling urine (I love how the article states "female urine" as if "male urine" smells better or something....)?    

Number 9....Number 9....Number 9..... Shameless Plug time!

If this photo was taken today, we would see John typing away on his blog....

In celebration of 09-09-09 and how it is a Beatles Day for us all, I thought I would give you all who check out this blog on a regular or semi-regular basis the chance to shamelessly plug your own blogs, websites or causes. It would be awesome if these were Beatles related, but it is alright if they aren't.

The two websites I want you all to join and enjoy are:

The solo Beatles photo forum

I am the admin. and founder of this site, and it has TONS and TONS of photos of the former Beatles from 1970-the present day. Everything is organized by year and I am always working on it. So why haven't you joined???

http://solobeatlesphotosforum.freeforums.org/index.php

Beatles Day by Day forum

http://beatlesdaybyday.freeforums.org/

Wizz is the person who actually started this site, but I am a mod there and add photos often. This forum is even better organized than the solo one. Each photo is placed into the right year and month and then day. It is great!!

So go ahead and leave a comment telling us all about YOUR blog or website!