Hi everyone, sorry its been a while since my last post, been busy with other things, BUT good news is that I have just added a new page to the blog, called 'Fans Snaps'. As it says this is devoted to all those fans who made their way to London or to the Beatles houses to either speak or see the Beatles on their own turf.
Impossible to do with modern 'celebs' now, back in the 60's the lads actually didn't mind (upto a point) actually meeting their fans and spending some time with them. So visit the page and see the lads as you have never seen them before, and as they probably really wanted to be seen....as just ordinary lads from Liverpool.
Well thats the first one out the way. Ian at the Masons arms kindly let us use the back room and even supplied a large bowl of delicious chunky chips free of charge! As it turned out we could have just used a normal pub table, since the actual number of folk was only 5 - including myself! Considering the amount of hits I have been getting on the website and especially on the meeting post, maybe I had built my expectations up to an unreasonable level.
To say I was not dissappointed would be a lie. But it could have been worse - I might have been sat all alone looking like a lost tourist... Fortunately a chap I had already met came and brought three more who all share the same interests...and to say we had a lively and varied discussion would be an understatement.
It turned out to be a very enjoyable evening with Alan, Sarah, Peter and Brian. Photos were shared, ideas put forward, personal songs/albums, musical tastes compared, and lots of anecdotes too. I did intend to take a few pictures but totally forgot as we were engrossed in various topics.
Eventually we decided it would be worth meeting again, and I comforted myself on the way home with the thought 'that from small acorns do large oaks grow'.
So i will arrange another 'official' meeting again sometime in the next three months, and I might have another poster/flyer blitz in York to promote it.
