A Message to all Beatle Fans

To all Beatles Fans

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Fellow Fans!

My life and legal career has cris-crossed with the Beatles several times, most recently in an involvement for a client, who held the tapes made by the late Linda McCartney which became a hot property, when it was alleged that Sir Paul was violent in his second marriage.
You were no one unless you danced to the Beatles. By this I mean, before they filled theatres with seats, Beatle mania filled dance halls.

I saw them in Buxton in 1963 (see photograph). This is taken from behind the stage, and so is very unusual. I can be seen with a circle mark round my head.

I handed in all my savings of £5.00 in exchange for an autograph of Paul McCartney, a girl lost an eye in the scrum, a terrible tragedy, but I shall never forget when those curtains opened. The atmosphere was utterly electric, the sound different. Every boy there wanted to be and sing like a Beatle. Every girl wanted to be a Beatles’ girl.

It sounds trite but those who did not experience dancing with the Beatles live can never possibly understand why anyone else – Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls, Madonna, Oasis can be more than also rans.

They will live forever.

Rodney Hylton-Potts