I MET A BEATLE!

with every passing year, the chances of meeting a beatle are getting slimmer. helps to hang around in their native habitat.

Great story! As a now 71-year-old Beatles fan since '62, I love how many younger people are into the Beatles these days. Welcome to the best club in the world! <3 I first heard them on the radio in '62 when I was 10, when Love Me Do and then, in early '63, Please Please Me were released in the UK. I saw them perform on stage in my local (rather small) theatre in '64. We didn't have videos then of course, or even much in the way of TV for teenagers, so I had very little idea of what they looked like - I just knew I HAD to see them, having missed an earlier tour to our town the year before. When I saw them, for real, standing up there on stage with the theatre exploding into screams and yells of unbridled joy, it was surreal. And then it became even more surreal, because I looked at George and with a shock, RECOGNISED him... A couple of years earlier, in the summer of '62 two young men strolled into a hotel dining room where I was having lunch with my parents. It was a 'pearls and twinsets'/ tweedy jackets', sedate sort of place and there was a sort of shudder of shock as these two unknown beatniks appeared causing an immediate ripple in the Force! Even back then, before they were generally known outside of the Liverpool area and Hamburg, Germany, they simply oozed charisma! One of them, who I later identified as John, started regaling the hotel staff at the desk with an apparently hilarious naughty story, and when he got to the punch line, he mock-ducked, grinning from ear to ear, as if expecting a clip around the ears for his cheek. I next saw that exact gesture, the mock-guilty duck, on TV the following year when the by then suddenly ultra-famous Beatles appeared at the Royal Command Performance in front of royalty, and John, shockingly for the times, asked all the richer fans in the audience to just 'rattle their jewellery' in time to the next song... 19 year-old George meanwhile was HUNGRY (just as he was portrayed in A Hard Day's Night, always eating) and started prowling around the room, walking right past me, scanning the tables under dark, quizzical brows looking for an empty space/place to sit. The room was packed, and I was just praying for him to come and sit next to ME, and tell me everything about himself, because he was the cutest thing I'd ever seen (with those dark eyes and the unusual fringe (bangs), skinny legs in black jeans, loose white shirt and black waistcoat (sleeveless jacket) and because the two of them EMANATED something amazing and exotic I couldn't define but loved anyway - I now recognise it as the smell of rock n roll, or maybe it was the aura of creative genius??! My father clicked his tongue disapprovingly, muttering something about 'louts!' while my mother nudged me in the ribs and hissed at me not to stare. But I couldn't help it. I just had to look. At the tender age of 10, I was already lost to the 60s revolution... Unfortunately, the guys soon learned from the staff that the main bar area was now open and they could order food there. Once George was fully satisfied that meant he definitely could get a proper meal there and not just snacks, the two of them sauntered off and the dining room returned to a semblance of normality. For me, it was as though the lights went out and the world had gone back to grey. So, imagine my complete SHOCK when I recognised George, up on stage, as the guy from the hotel dining room two years earlier. I couldn't really believe it, and sort of shoved the memory to the back of my mind and re-joined in with the screaming hordes, while George scanned us all with that same quizzical look, under those dark eyebrows, just as he'd scanned the restaurant looking for a place to sit. And I swear he looked at me for 3/5 of a second, and sighed at the utter weirdness of it all... <3 So anyway, FWIW, that's my Beatles story! <3 😀

It's good to know that Beatlemania is still alive and well.

i have every song of the beatles downloaded on my phone. they are awesome

I’m a Beatles fan ever since 1962. They’ve made my life bright! Greetings from a 74 yr old fan from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

This is such a cute story Jae

God sends a Bodhisattva to help enlighten and bring joy to the world. I belive, as Brian Wilson of the Beach boys believed, that the Beatles were just that, a Bodhisattva

The buildup took a while, but the payoff was so worth it! I couldn't stop smiling :) Great story! After that experience, you should feel like you could accomplish just about anything! So very, very cool!!! Long live The Beatles! Peace

OMG I love your story❤. Me and my dad will go to Paul McCartney's Got Back concert in Paris. I'm so excited to finally see and hear him live!!

I saw Paul McCartney in concert when I was a senior in High School. I listened to him do rehearsals the day before his tour opened in America. It was in Ft. Worth, Tx. My friend and I got a picture and chased his car down the freeway from Ft. Worth to Husrst, TX. He got off at the exit in Hurst and the next day I read in the Fort worth Star Telegram that he had bought a horse in Hurtst! It was anAppaloosa that Linda loved to ride. Linda was also in the car with Paul. She got his attention to notice us screaming in the car and he waved. Best graduation present!

A great story, well told!! You rock—for the fact that the Beatles' cartoons were your gateway and that you glommed onto "Anna" as an early favorite song lol. That's a fan! I was two years old when they broke into the U.S. on Sullivan, but was a Beatles' fan by the time I was 4/5. So I watched those cartoons in re-runs--yeah, they were cheaply made, but the character design/caricatures and the way they captured their personalities were spot on! I own a set of those now-rare Beatles cartoon maquettes, which sit on a bookshelf. Anyway, your story really touched me, McCartney is so cool. Glad to say I saw him live in the '90s.

Great story! I got so excited for you!

Beatles stock worth just skyrocketed

Congratulations with all my envy !!! I'm 59 and I'm from Colombia and I've seen him 7 times since 2002. I believe I enjoy Beatles music more than anybody in this world. It surprises me that I can listen, for example I'm Looking Through You 20 times in a row and I never get tired of that. Its been that way since I was 11 and they brought happiness to my life. Hugs

I like Dana Carvey's story about how Paul just warmed up to him at a party, sitting down at the piano and trying out some new tunes for him - about the time when Dana was doing a great impression of Paul on SNL. Your story is pretty cool, too.

As an older Beatle fan for decades you are at least the 3rd young woman I've come across in recent years that mentioned Anna (Go to him) as a personal favorite, interesting and surprising to me since in decades past the song was considered, when it was considered at all, a rather obscure early album track.

John wasn't a horrible person. He was a flawed person who shared some dark things about himself. He definitely should have treated Julian better. Congrats on meeting Paul. I've been a Beatles fan since the 90s and haven't been to any of his shows. I think that's going to end up being a regret in life.

I also saw that James Corden Car Karaoke video/tour with Paul Mc Cartney and the Pub concert. I couldn't believe how emotional I got watching that ! So glad you had that amazing experience meeting Paul- That you were determined to make Happen !! You did it, Girl, Good for You !! CHEERS !❤

I became a Beatles fan when the Beatles Rock Band came out in 2009 and always wanted to meet a Beatle. With your luck, you could’ve won the billionaire lottery back in 2016. :(

My first ever concert was seeing Paul Mccartney on the same tour and wow was it a concert! Sgt Peppers was also my first record I got when my parents got me a record player for Christmas when I was 15. Fantastic video I loved the storytelling!