Articles & Stories

From: Jade324 First of all, if any of you are interested, there's an article in the Nov. 23-30th TV Guide on "Standing Stone" and it has a pic of Paul and some quotes. Also I read this cool book on The Beatles so here's some stuff from it: "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it."-Mimi Smith. Growing up John was a natural leader and he was always picking fights with people to prove it. He didn't like school, but he did like to read, write and draw. When he was in the Quarry Men his principal encouraged him because he liked to see John doing something besides sabatoging the school. When he was in art school John used to draw cartoons of his teachers and distribute them under the title:The Daily Howl. "The minute he got the guitar, that was the end. He was lost...he played it on the lavatory, in the bath, everywhere."-Mike McCartney. Paul was chubby as a kid and didn't like sports but he was a good student. He didn't like being left handed because he tried to do everything backwards, like writing, which his teachers didn't like. He wasn;'t very good at riding his bike either, he always tried to ride backwards. He and his brother were really close. "I liked music, since I can remember..."Hong Kong Blues", that's one of the first songs I can remember, I must have been about four, a real bluesy song. Those were happy times. I went out a ot with my parents...I remember being at one place or another, dancing at the club or at old Mrs. Such and Such. I remember as a baby standing on a little leather stool singing 'One Meatball'". -George Harrison. George was good at sports and he was good at school, but he hated it. He was always kind of rebellious, wearing flashy clothes and never getting his hair cut. He grew up in a really small house which he said was "freezing in winter...the worst" but was sunny in summer. He moved out of there when he was five. He went to the same Primary school at the same time as John, but they didn't know each other. One of his brothers was in John's class though. (I don't have a quote for Ringo. :(...) Ringo grew up in Dingle, which was a really bad neighborhood. His parents were divorced and his mom was always working to keep up with expenses so he spent a lot of time at his grandparents'. He missed a lot of school since he was sick so he was always far behind and consequently didn't like it much. Whenever he could get enough money he'd skip school and go to the movies. "Well you make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it?"-John Lennon "We played very loud in Hamburg-bang bang all the time. The germans loved it."-John Lennon When the Beatles were in Hamburg the first time they lived in a theatre behind a movie screen, so what sleep they did have time to get between 7 hour performances was interupted. The clubs were gross, but they loved performing in them. While they were there they learned to "Mach Schau" ("Make Show.") John loved to do that. He'd imitate Nazi soldiers, come out in his underwear, or wear a toilet seat around his neck. Towards the end of their stay in Hamburg they started playing at the Top Ten club which annoyed the man who was emplying them, since the Top Ten was a rival club. He turned in George for being underage (the legal performing age for Hamburg was 18 and George was 17), and on the way out of the theatre once Pete and Paul accidently caused some fire damage, so they were deported too. John left soon after and Stu stayed in Germany. "They were rather scruffly dressed...and they had a rather untidy stage appearance." -Brian Epstien's first impression. Brian heard about the Beatles from some local girls who were asking about them at his dad's record store. So he went to the CAvern to see them play. He remembered having thrown them out of the store before because of their scruffy appearance. Onstage they ate, pretended to hit each other with their guitars, yelled at the audience and laughed at private jokes. Brian was put off by this, but liked their music and called them to his office one day intending to ask them if he could manage them. Paul was late, so they called his house to see whaty the hold up was. He was taking a bath, but would be over soon. "He's going to be very late" grumbled Brain. "Yes", said George, "but very clean." "The obvious was the last thing they wanted. Ever."-George Martin. After being refused by several record companies the Beatles turned to EMI. George Martin wasn't very expert at rock, he was more into classical, but he liked the Beatles. The begining was very stiff, the Beatles were very nervous. So was George Martin. "Tell me anything you don't like" he said. "Well, for a start I don't like your tie" said George. Let's jump ahead a few years...... "Beatles concerts are nothing to do with music anymore. THey're just bloody tribal rites."- John Lennon "We got in a rut, going round the world. Nobody could hear. It was just a bloody big row. We got worse as musicians. There was no satisfaction at all."-George Harrison. "When they were together they seemed to become another dimension."-George Martin. "We were just a band that made it very, very big. That's all."-John Lennon I got all this stuff from the book The Beatles by Marvin Martin. You'll like it if you want to know more about the early days, but if you want to know more about the U.S. Invasion you might get dissapointed, since it only has 4 or 5 chapters on them in America. From: Jade324 I have a couple questions, was John near sighted or far sighted? Who got custody of Julian after John and Cynthia split? I'm assuming it was Cyn, but just to be sure :) E-mail me if you have the answers. Also, I really hate it when people will e-mail this newsletter with trivia and never give the answers. So, for the next person who does trivia:PLEASE give the answers! One more thing:I'm trying to find out how many of you Beatle Fans out there like Oasis. I'll post the response in this newsletter. So, email me with your opinions on Oasis. From: Jade324 For those of you who didn't see Sir Paul's Oprah interview, the man on the Flaming Pie story is just something John made up to make the process sound interesting. What really happened was that he was thinking what a good name "The Crickets" would have been for a British group, so he thought of "The Beetles", and put the a in for a joke. I was reading a book I got from the library on the Beatles and it told a little about their first tour. Of course then it was still John, Paul, George and Stu. Pete wasn't there yet. Since they didn't have an official drummer they got Tommy Moore to drum for them, who was 36. The age difference probably had a lot to do with why he quit the group right after the tour. They got a job backing Johnny Gentle for a tour of Scotland. The tour was almost two weeks long, and it was during school so they had to think up quick excuses . John wasn't around school much anyway, Ringo was out of school, but Paul told his dad the school was giving them 2 weeks to rest up for exams and his dad believed him. The tour was a good experience for the Beatles, except when, right before their first show Johnny Gentle started driving the tour bus and plowed them right into a truck. No one was hurt, except Tommy who lost two teeth. He had to go to the hospital and threatened to quit the tour, so John had to go to the hospital and convince him to stay. From: GarretFan He drums. He sings. He acts. He designed a credit card. He's Ringo Starr! Beatles fans everywhere flocked to the Hult Center to see Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band, composed of legendary guitarist Peter Frampton, former Cream bassist Jack Bruce (who kicked some major ass with the most amazing bass guitar solo I've ever heard), Procol Harum's Gary Brooker on keyboards, mark Rivera on sac, and Simon Kirke from Bad Company on drums on April 29. The All-Starr Band perfomed several old favorites including "All Right Now," "Yellow Submarine," "Sunshine of Your Love," "I Wanna Be Your Man," and "With a LIttle Help From my Friends" as an encore. Ringo and the rest of the band wowed the crowd with their amazing talent and sense of humor. These men are in no way has-beens; they bopped across the stage and had a ball while playing their hearts out. And what fabulous hearts these men must have. You may wonder how a person can be obsessed with the little Beatle with the big nose instead of Paul (the cute one), John (the intellectual one), or George (the spiritual one). Ringo is happy-go-lucky and isn't afraid to show his quirky personality. He once sang, "I'm the biggest fool who ever hit the big time and all I've gotta do is act naturally." And that's what he does best. By Tana Charette The Oregon Voice (Issue 6, Volume 8, May 1997)

Beatle Dreams

From: macca_girl@hotmail.com (Charlotte Paula Jusinski) Beatles dreams? Oh boy! I could go on forever! But I'll give you my favorite one. All I remember about the beginning of the dream was that we had arrived at the hill in a metallic purple VW Bug, like one I had seen in Hollywood over the summer. But anyway, me (Charlotte, AKA Paula), my e-mail friend Jessica (who I hadn't seen a picture of yet, I was imagining what she looked like) Linda, Ringo, John, George and Paul were all sitting on top of the big hill and chatting. I was all in dreamland (not meant to be a double meaning! hee hee) because I was sitting next to Paul (my one and only true love ;-P) Anyway I was kinda in la-la-land. But then all of a sudden I layed back and looked up at the clouds (which were a daisy chain!) and I remember that the ground was muddy. I remember daisies all around too. But then Paul lays and looks at the clouds with me. I think that we were pointing out clouds and what we thought they looked like, but then I suddenly said, "Paul, say 'trust.'" (it's an inside joke with that e-mail buddy, Jessica, and I) he says, "Trust. Why?" and I say, "It's an inside joke between Jessica and I." Then I start laughing, for some pointless reason and everyone starts laughing with me. I then woke up to my mother yelling at me to come downstairs for breakfast. There's your fairytale ending! ~Love, Laughter, and Lennon~ Charlotte "Paula McCarthy" Jusinski http://people.csnet.net/jusinski/charl.html macca_girl@hotmail.com From: SHERTOGO I hope this goes in the newsletter!! I've been aching to put something in it (I think its pretty "gear")!! Well, first I'd like to mention that in the last newsletter no one mentioned the anniversary of John Lennon's death (unless I missed it) on Dec. 8 (its been 17 yrs.!). So, in memory of that day I think we should have a moment of silence..........(sniffle).......Thankyou! We love you John :o)! I also have a dream I'd like to submit: ***It began in a restuarant of some sort and I was a waitress there. For some odd reason my parents were there yelling at me to get them food, and I seemed to be doing everything wrong (dropping food in my dad's lap, etc.)! To get to the kitchen into the dining room I had to climb through a hole behind a mirror. I climbed into the kitchen and I noticed on the reservation list the name John Lennon! Wow!! I was so excited, but my parents kept on badgering me to get them food and I was getting mad because I might miss the chance to meet John Lennon. Then I walked into the dining room and there he was!! Yoko and him were on top of one of the tables (it kinda looked like the bed in for peace) and John had a beard and long hair and Yoko had long hair as well. I was ecstatic! Then John asked if he could go into the kitchen. Of course I said yes and Johnandyoko climbed through the hole behind the mirror. All of a sudden I was in the kitchen with John, but Yoko wasn't there. I told John he neede to shave his beard, and wel, he did. The my dad appeared in the kitchen with a camera. John was watching a t.v. that had the Beatle impersonators Beatlemania on the screen (I had this dream the night before I was actually going to go see the impersonators live). I asked him what he thought about that and he laughed (U know the John laugh). My dad then decided to take pictures of John and me ( I hope you've noticed by now I'm a HUGE John fan, and my best friend is a Paul fanatic! Kinda snazzy, huh?). First he took a picture of John by himself, then just as my dad was about to take a picture of John and me.... I woke up!! For some strange reason I thought I would have that picture of John because the dream was so real, but of course, I didn't!!*** I hope you got a kick out of that dream like I did!! I've had a Paul dream too, but maybe next time!! I wouldn't want to bore you with another pointless dream! !!!Oh ! By the way! Somebody wrote about going to the Ringo Starr concert recently! I went just this past summer with my older brother!! It was awesome!! Ringo was great (of course), but I have to give my compliments to Peter Frampton (a.k.a. Billy Shears, if you know what I'm talking about!). My brother (not a Beatle fan) enjoyed him more than Ringo! I can't say the same, because I still LOVE those Beatles! Thanks for reading me! -Kelcey :o))

Beat Bag

From: stewarts@mindspring.com (david stewart) >From: TeaMocker ><< From: Essex83> I would like to respond to the LSD argument. You said that John >Lennon said it wasn't about LSD! Of course John Lennon wouldn't say, " yeah >this song is about LSD because I like the experience!" Do you want the drug >police to get him. We REALLY don't know so.........................don't >state a fact they may be untrue! >> why not? Paul admitted to using marijuana and no one got him!! They can't arrest you for saying you took drugs (can they?) and its not like that would have made them wtach him closer because they were already all over him (the fuzz that is) Poor George! anyone ever read the lyrics to the unreleased song "Nowhere to Go"? It's really touching! -Henry From: stewarts@mindspring.com (david stewart) >From: walehead@bellatlantic.net (Ms.Kite) >I'd like to reply to the article by Windchild about Mark Chapman. He >was given 20 years in jail. And it was in Dec. on 1980 that he shot >John. So, in other words unless Chapman was bad in jail, he will be out >and free in the year 2000. Does that scare anyone besides me?? For all >we know he could go stalk Yoko, since he has made various calls to her >from jail all of which she does not answer. What will he do? Will he >kill another harmless person? Or go for someone like the president or a >celebrity to gain more attention? We don't know! And it looks like >we'll just have to wait until Dec. of 2000 to find out. >~Ms.Kite >walehead@bellatlantic.net >http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/9842 >http://www.angelfire.com/nc/NowhereLand/ I think someone's gonna get Chapman when he gets out. There are a lot of angry, violent Beatle fans out there (not me!) I wouldn't worry about him getting Yoko or any other Beatle! I'm sure they know what he looks like and will have body guards or something anyway! -Henry

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From: Renira

Hello, my name's Deanna and I got this through a forward. It's a song by an unknown author that I thought you all might like so I sent it along. Hope you enjoy it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IF THE BEATLES USED COMPUTERS new lyrics to Beatles Song YESTERDAY Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say. Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away. I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in yesterday.

Well, that's it for the 13th issue of the Fab Four Forever Club. I hope you all enjoyed it. Remember, if you need to change your address or remove your address from this club, please just let me know. And of course, if you know anyone who would like to join, please have them email me as well. Have a wonderful 1998 this year club, and Happy Birthday! Until Next Time :

-Meg Fab Four Forever President