Marie Lacey and a few of her friends used to wait around the studio when John was recording Mind Games in 1973. John called them “the Greeting Committee.” They made up a shirt with this on it and gave it to him. The next day, he opened up his jacket to pose for photos of him wearing the shirt they gave him.
An “application” by a Cavern girl, Valerie Keene, filled out by Paul Mccartney
Scan - John Lennon and Bettina “Betty” Derlien, bar lady on the Reeperbahn, pictured here during the Hamburg stop of the Bravo Beatles Blitztournee, 26 June 1966
Betty immediately liked The Beatles’ humor and show - and John. She kept in touch with him through letters (and he’d send her his quirky drawings, too) and in fact also went to the movie theater with him during the band’s Hamburg stays… As she recalled, they went on one occasion to see “Dracula,” and she didn’t want to see the scary bits - so she asked John to tell her when they were over and it was safe to look again. It’s probably hardly surprising that John told her to look right when the worst bits were on the screen. ;)
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Scan - Ringo Starr and George Harrison, on the flight from New Zealand to Australia, 1964
A five-year-old girl turned down an offer thousands of girls would give their whole collection of Beatles records for. She was asked by George Harrison “going to give me a kiss?” Replied Australian born Kaye Peebles steadfastly “no”.
From The Beatles Book Monthly, August 1964
Brian Epstein The Fifth Beatle | Teen Life, 1967 February
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The Beatles - Raunchy
Written by Justis-Manker. Released on The Beatles Anthology Outtakes Vol. 3
This is the song which brought George into the group. Paul remembered how he introduced George to John, “On a late night bus, I said ‘Go on George, get your guitar out.’ And he played it - note perfect. ‘Raunchy’. You’re in.”
The song was played in live during the pre-Beatles year from 1958 - 1960. In the jam session at George’s Friar Park Studios, during the reunion in 1994, they played this song along with two other songs (“Thinking Of Linking” and “Blue Moon Of Kentucky”) with Paul and George on guitar and Ringo on drums.
In February 1964 a British company sent to the United States half ton of Beatles wigs. A reporter later asked John Lennon: “How do you feel about so many teenagers imitating you with these Beatles wigs?” John replied: “They are not imitating us because we do not use Beatles wigs!”
