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and he was just listening,

and he said, "London is a city

of vice. You're not going. "

I knew I could go, you know,

he couldn't stop me going,

but when I started

looking in me own mind,

he wasn't very

well at the time,

so that's when I thought

"No, I can't do this to me father.

A job's a job, even if it is

The Beatles, a job's a job. "

And that's why I

handed in my notice.

He had a beautiful desk in the office,

really big desk,

he didn't even look

up when I walked in,

I just stood in front of him,

and I said, very quietly,

"I want to hand in

my notice please. "

He'd never heard that before,

and he went,

"Don't you want

to come to London?"

I said, "Oh, I desperately

want to come to London,

I'd love to come to London,"

and I said,

"But I can't come to London,

'cos me father

won't allow me. "

I know for a fact that Brian Epstein

was seriously concerned,

and I also know

that the individual Beatles

were most upset that

she wasn't coming to London.

And then Eppy sent for me.

He said, "I've had

a talk with the lads,

and we don't

want to you leave. "

And I was just stunned.

He said, "I've had a word

with your father, and you can come

to London on a regular basis.

You stay up here. "

And he said, "You can go back to NEMS,

let me see it done,

you can have my old offices

in White Chapel. "

And that was how

I didn't leave.

Before they moved to London,

I wanted to get their autographs,

so, George was in

this day, and I had

autograph book

upon autograph book

for him to sign,

and I slipped mine in the middle.

So he's signing them,

and I'm saying, you know, "That's to Rita,

that's to Barbara, that's to Steve,

and he gets to mine, and he said

"Who's this to?" and I said,

"Well, just sign that,"

'cos I just wanted

it out of the way,

and he went,

"Well, no, who's it to?"

and I think it was

because I was going,

"Oh, it doesn't matter,

just sign it,"

and I remember

saying to him, "Oh,

just sign the book,

just sign the book,"

and he flicked it to the front,

and he went, "Is this yours?"

and I went,

"Yeah, I haven't got your autograph,

I just want your autograph

before you go to London. "

So he signed it, and he pocketed it,

he took it,

and I went,

"What are you doing with me book?"

and he went,

"I'll get the others for ya. "

And then next time he came in,

he just threw it on the table,

he went, "There you go. "

And they'd all put little comments in it.

Oh, Beatles Monthly.

Before the days

of the internet and

Twitter and

Facebook and everything,

the way we got

news to the fans

was through

the Beatles Monthlys.

I would get information

from their parents,

little gossipy snippets,

I would also ask them what was going on,

and little bits

of juicy information from them,

and I would put it

in my newsletter,

that was,

in The Beatles Monthly.

Dear Beatle People,

I'd really like to thank each

and every one of you

who have sent presents

for John's birthday.

John was really pleased that

so many of you remembered him.

During his 10-day

trip to America,

Paul looked in on a Beach Boys

recording session.

Tarrah for now, Freda Kelly.

Dear Beatle People, July 1964

will go down in Beatle history

as a hard day's month.

At last the first feature film

starring our fabulous foursome

is ready for showing,

and will be coming

to your local

cinema quite soon.

At the beginning of March,

you will see, Beatles at Shea Stadium Show,

filmed in New

York last August,

when the boys starred in the

largest-ever concert of their career

before 57,000 fans.

Thank goodness

the rumors about Paul are over.

Paul is still with us,

and is likely to be with us for a long time.

Congratulations to

Ringo and Maureen,

who are expecting

their second baby

shortly after

Maureen's next birthday.

George has been to

the dentist again.

Dear Beatle People,

after nearly four months

of solid session work,

the new LP, called

Sergeant Pepper's

Lonely Hearts Club Band,

is ready.

Beatles are hoping to acquire

their own private recording studios

at a secret

location in central London.

New Beatles

recording every week.

In one short

period of just over

four months,

The Beatles have released

no less than

sixteen new recordings.

John hated his

passport photograph so much

that he tore it up

and had a new picture taken.

Dear Beatle People,

quite a lot of letters sent in

discussed John,

Cynthia, and Yoko Ono.

At least as many members have

written about Paul and Jane.

Everyone has dozens

of questions to ask,

and many of you

have only been too

ready to put

forward your opinions.

Here at the fan club,

we believe

that The Beatles deserve their

separate and individual private lives,

which should remain their business,

and no other people's.

I am sure both

John and Paul will

work out their

problems in their own ways,

and I think they should be

allowed to do so

without the help or hindrance

from millions of Beatle People.

Tarrah for now, Freda Kelly.

Over the years,

we could see the effect

that his job was

having on Eppy.

It was taking its toll.

The odd time that I went to London

and saw him, he was just changing,

you know, you could just see

things weren't right.

He became obsessed

with trying out, initially,

experimenting

with drugs, and then

becoming very

reliant upon them,

and becoming more

and more of a mess.

The 27th of August,

1967, I was at home.

There was something

up with our phone,

and I know I had

to use a neighbor's phone,

and the neighbor

came over to me

and said,

"There's a call for you,

there's a girl, Pat,

wants to talk to you,"

and Pat said,

"Oh, have you heard about

Brian,

have you heard about Brian?

He's just been found dead. "

The media were on this one

that he committed suicide,

and I just didn't believe

that he committed suicide.

Somebody said that he

choked on his vomit,

and I tend to

believe that tale.

The Beatles were

actually in Wales,

they'd gone there

to see the Maharishi,

and they were informed there,

and I just remember John,

out of all of them,

he was the one that

was sorta stunned.

Although I was still young me self,

I could still visualize

the devastation

that it was going to cause.

He was

the anchor for everything,

and it was just...

where do we all go from here?

What happens now?

So Paul had this meeting set

for September the 1st,

within a couple of days of Brian Epstein's

very tragic, premature death,

and when I got there,

nobody else had arrived yet,

and he said, "Before the others get here,

I just want to tell you,

I think that if The Beatles do not

get together and work together

very very quickly now,

the group is going to disintegrate. "

Magical Mystery tour,

it wasn't the best-organized thing,

well, it wasn't organized,

because Paul had a rough idea,

but just a very rough idea.

This coach rolled up,

and there was all

different types of

people milling around,

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