I mean, more than just attend a show.

Tell us about it please!

P.S. Sorry for the double post - delete key isn't working!

My dad has a friend who met Macca around 96-97.
Apparently he gave him a guided tour around his town studio in sussex (?) ,
the one with his elvis double bass in!
He was in a group at the time & Macca ask them to play at a christmas party & he got
friendly with the guys. He said that Macca was an amazing lovely warm-hearted guy & he dosen't
believe any of these horrible accusations made by the press or heather mills about him
being violent. Of course, i'm very jealous that it was him & not me!
I tend to tell people & they say, 'yeah right, whatever'. Yes, they don't believe me.

My dad met Paul in the '70s. He (my dad- not Paul!) was hitchhiking in Scotland, near Paul's farm and Paul gave him a lift. I asked dad what they talked about and he said the weather. Pfff! I can't believe it. Meeting Paul McCartney and talking about the weather.  

Wow Mairi!! Your dad must be proud of meeting a beatle! he didn't get his autograph then?
just a chat on weather conditions

I met Pete Best...  

Al met Macca at a book signing. That was a story well told.

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My dad met Paul in the '70s. He (my dad- not Paul!) was hitchhiking in Scotland, near Paul's farm and Paul gave him a lift. I asked dad what they talked about and he said the weather. Pfff! I can't believe it. Meeting Paul McCartney and talking about the weather.  

Well,,, What could two Englishmen (I presume your dad is Englishman) in England / Scotland could talk about then the weather?
I don't know what I would talk with Paul if I met him... 'Bout girls...?

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I don't know what I would talk with Paul if I met him... 'Bout girls...?

I would talk about boys yea yea boys...

Never met 'em (too young) ... not even in me dreamies...

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I met Pete Best...  

Why are we "undecided"?

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Well,,, What could two Englishmen (I presume your dad is Englishman) in England / Scotland could talk about then the weather?
I don't know what I would talk with Paul if I met him... 'Bout girls...?

My dad is Scottish, but yeah, he loves talking about the weather! Ha ha!

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My dad met Paul in the '70s. He (my dad- not Paul!) was hitchhiking in Scotland, near Paul's farm and Paul gave him a lift. I asked dad what they talked about and he said the weather. Pfff! I can't believe it. Meeting Paul McCartney and talking about the weather.  

LOL! Mairi, your story reminds me of my brother-in-law, who met Elijah Wood (Frodo)'s cousin while golfing. This was before the third movie came out. I was staying at my sister's place in Iowa, and her hubby comes home all pleased with himself. "I was just golfing with Elijah Wood's cousin!"
So we got all excited and said, "What about the third movie? What's going on in New Zealand?" yadda yadda. He said he didn't talk about any of that.
"Well, what did you talk about?" we asked.
"Golf!"

No first hand replies yet ... but I want to hear about Al at the Book signing!  (Paul has a book?)

My closest brush with a Beatle was drinking a beer with some dude who said he hung out with John Lennon at Liverpool Art College in the 50s. It was at Ye Cracke, the pub across the street. He looked about the right age, and I was very happy to buy him a beer ... he might have been actually telling the truth!

I used wander the streets of Greenwich Village in the 70's, always with an eye out for John ... little knowing all I had to do was go to the Upper West Side. Part of the pain for me of December 8, 1980 was knowing that there wasn't ever going to be a chance to run into him ...

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No first hand replies yet ... but I want to hear about Al at the Book signing!  (Paul has a book?)

Ahhh, your right. I had a brain fart. It was a DVD signing and not a book. Anyways, it took me awhile, but heres the link to the story.

http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/b-news/m-1164291233/s-0/

Great read, thanks tkitna!

No problem.

Ringo Starr wore my hat at a concert once. Thats the closest i've ever come to meeting a Beatle.

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No problem.

Ringo Starr wore my hat at a concert once. Thats the closest i've ever come to meeting a Beatle.

Hey, well do tell!!

Not much to tell. I took the wife to a Ringo concert for her birthday and we had front row center seats. I threw my hat onstage and Ringo wore it while singing 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and then discarded it. I was pissed I didnt get it back. it was a nice hat.

I met Paul in December 2005 at a book signing he did in london for High In the Clouds.

This is the original post I made to the forum I was posting on at the time when I returned




Well I'm back and this is how it happened.

When i arrived at 11.30am we were told to join a queue of other blue writband holders. They had also handed out some yellow wristbands and we were told that the blues would definately meet Paul but the yellows would get a signed book but would only meet him if there was time.

Security was really tough. There were police outside the store. We we not allowed to take anything into the signing and had leave coats,cameras,mobiles etc on a seperate floor. After leaving this stuff we then had to turn out our pockets to check we didnt have anything that might harm paul in them. I was a bit disappointed about the camera thing. I understood that it would be very time consuming for everyone to have a picture posing with Paul but i didnt see the problem of taking photos of him. Never mind.

We were then ushered to another floor and held there after buying our books. they were limited to one per person. At around 12:45 fans were sent in to meet Paul in groups of 20.

After the first few Paul decided that he wanted to sign all the books first so he could talk to people without having his head in a book signing it. The watersones staff then collected everybodys books up and took them into Paul for signing. There was then another huge delay while he did this. At around 1.30 it was my turn to be sent into the room Paul was in. We were then told that this was a timed event and they wanted everyone to get to meet him so they said "its not  In conversation with Paul McCartney so dont tell him you've been a Beatles fan since 1964,he knows youre all fans,just shake his hand say hi and move along"

As we approached his table another security person told us not to approach paul with our hands in our pockets (guns i guess).Anyone that goes to get anything out of their pocket will be removed from the store immediately.At this point I got my "Chaos" cd booklet that i was hoping he would sign out of my pocket and held it in my hand (so i didnt have to get it out of my pocket in front of him).This was then spotted my one of the security people and this was taken off me and i had to collect it afterwards.

I was now 3 from the front and I could see Paul closer than I had ever been before.Paul was sitting at a table with the books and he had a plate of toast and jam (jelly to you lot).The person in front of me (who was American) had a small child with him and Paul asked him if he wanted some "jammy toast" (the child not the bloke).He spoke to them with toast in his mouth which i though was quite funny.Finally I reached the front.After 30 years of being a fan, I was actually about to have a one to one with Paul McCartney.

PM: Hello (offers hand and we shake...OMFG)

ML: Hi Paul, it's really nice to meet you

PM: It's nice to meet you too

ML: How was the U.S ?

PM:Really great, we had a fantastic time.

ML: Are you bringing the tour here next year?

PM: We dunno yet. We've just got back so we're having a bit of a break but hopefully.

At this point a security bloke is starting to usher me away

ML: Thanks very much and have a great christmas

PM:You have a good one too and thanks for coming.

And with that I was gone.

Very brief but this afternoon I have achieved one of my lifes ambitions and I guess not many people get to do that on a Wednesday. The event was being filmed (probably for the news) so he had make up on and consequently looked great.Its a real shame that I couldnt get any photos and i am truely gutted about that but the 14th December 2005 will always be etched in my memory as the day I met Paul McCartney.

I would once again like to thank Beatlebangs1964 for alerting me to this event.Without that I wouldnt have got to do this.Mention in dispatches to LennonLover2005 and everyone else on here that kept their fingers crossed tighter than a virgins legs that i would get the wristband.

As I caught the tube back to work afterwards, I wondered if an opportunity like this would ever present itself again. Probably not?

Very cool story maccalennon!

Thanks for sharing it here Tony.

wow did you really meet paul? thats so cool maccalennon! you're so lucky! I wish I met Paul but I'd be speechles, i'm positive and my jaw would drop to the ground and stay there haha so good on ya. wow!

Great one, Maccalennon!

Did they give you your book at the end? Which book was it?

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Not much to tell. I took the wife to a Ringo concert for her birthday and we had front row center seats. I threw my hat onstage and Ringo wore it while singing 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and then discarded it. I was pissed I didnt get it back. it was a nice hat.

Now that's a story.
But I have to ask: did Ringo ask for a hat? Or did you throw it on stage in a moment of wild abandon (you crazy kid you)? Or were you trying to land it on the cymbals or something?
Also, a brief description of the hat will finish the picture nicely.
Thank you.

As I've described on another thread (Raxo can probably find it!), I met Paul and Linda in the Virgin Megastore, Marble Arch in '74 I think. They were going around with a shopping trolly full of vinyl. They were very nice, and patient, as a lot of people wanted autographs. I then met both of them again at The Royal Photographic Society in Bath. Linda was having an exhibition and as I'm a member I got an invite to the opening night. Paul signed my copy of A Hard Days Night. He was very keen that people focus on Linda and not him. This was around 1992/3. That's it really. Seen Ringo once but he was accross a busy street, so never met him.

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Great one, Maccalennon!

Did they give you your book at the end? Which book was it?

Yeah Paul signed all the books while we waited and then just handed us the book as we got to the desk where he was sitting. I think he did this so that he could briefly talk to people as they came up rather than have his head in book whilst they talked to the back of his head. The was called High In The Clouds which is a childrens book.

I nearly repeated the feat last year when he did another signing, this time at virgin megastore where he was signing copies of The Space DVD. They didnt do a wristband thing for that it was just first come first served. I was 7 people from the front when we were told that he had left .

Lucky

My friend's dad claims he hung around them in Hamburg when he wasa guard at the prison where Rudolf Hess was kept. Spandau?

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My friend's dad claims he hung around them in Hamburg when he wasa guard at the prison where Rudolf Hess was kept. Spandau?

He must have gone for a weekend then. Spandau Prison is in Berlin, quite a distance from Hamburg.

Hm. The closest I've ever come (apart from a Paul McCartney concert) was a guy I had dinner with a few weeks ago. He was at the Beatles' not so acclaimed 1965 Minnesota concert. It didn't sell out. No one made a big deal about it. Somehow they irked the local radio stations and they vowed never to return to Minnesota.

He summed up the concert this way: "I saw them but didn't hear them."

I unfortunately haven't met any of them- or even anyone closely linked to them!  

But a couple of anicdotes from people I know...

- My Mum's friend saw George Harrison sitting in a park near Haight Ashbury strumming a guitar. She kind of walked past him, then realised it was him and stopped and walked back a few paces and just looked at him. Apparently he was giving off a strong 'don't bother me' vibe so she respected that and moved on. Cool though hm?

- My best friend's Dad met all the Beatles. He was in Weston-Super-Mare for a Beatles concert, waiting for his secretary who was car-hitching down to meet him there. Tragically, she was abused and violently attacked by a man who had taken her into his car so she arrived in a really bad state. The Beatles had just come out of the venue from performing (guess my friend's Dad must have missed it whilst waiting for his secretary) and my friend's Dad was yelling for help because his secretary was in a bad way and needed an ambulance so the Beatles came rushing over and got them help. The Beatles later went to the hospital and John bought her flowers because they felt bad for what had happened and the fact that it was due to the secretary trying to get to see them in concert that the whole thing had happened. Apparently they were really lovely guys who were genuine, down to earth and sensitive. I love this story  

No... I didn't know if that counted as a "beatle".....

Maccalennon ... thanks for the description of the Waterstones signing - absolutely amazing!
And Tkitna - the hat story is so cool - especially how it was for 'With a Little Help From My Friends' ... that hat is now immortalised

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I've never met any Beatle
Only seen Paul at one of his gigs .... . . ..  .. . (How Depressing)

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I've never met any Beatle
Only seen Paul at one of his gigs .... . . ..  .. . (How Depressing)

Atleast you've been to one of his gigs... I've been waiting my whole life to go see a Beatle...

I have never met a Beatle and I will never meet a Beatle but I know three people who have met a Beatle and I hate them for it!  

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My best friend's Dad met all the Beatles. He was in Weston-Super-Mare for a Beatles concert, waiting for his secretary who was car-hitching down to meet him there. ... Apparently they were really lovely guys who were genuine, down to earth and sensitive. I love this story  

What a great story, Tangerine. Thanks for sharing it!

I wish I did.... I wish they were all alive, so I could meet all of them

I never met a Beatle, but I once saw John and Paul get out of a limo and go into a stage door at the Paramount Theater in NYC in September, 1964. I had been waiting across the street, behind a wooden barricade for about an hour. They really looked like gods. It made a strong impression on me at the time.

I met Brian Epstein once in May, 1964.

Gerry and the Pacemakers were doing the Ed Sullivan Show. They were staying at the Americana Hotel on Seventh Avenue a block away. I was eleven years old and some teenage girls told me what floor the band was on. They said I could get up there easily if I pretended to be a hotel guest, because I was a boy.

I got past security and took an elevator up to the right floor and knocked on a few doors. Mr. Epstein, dressed in a white business shirt with a light blue collar, opened a door and said, "Yes, may I help you?" I was so flabbergasted, that I asked if it was okay to shake his hand. He said sure. Then I asked him for an autograph, which he gave me. He pleaded for me to excuse him because, " the boys are in the middle of a photo session."

What a gentleman.

I went back downstairs to the girls who had put me up to this, so I could proudly display my Brian Eptein autograph. When I showed it to them, someone said they would give me $5. for it. I pointed to the prettiest of them all, and said, "you can have it for a kiss."

True story.

A friend of ours met The Beatles backstage at Preston Public Hall in 1963. After the show John went back to Liverpool in the van with Neil, Paul went to Nelson to judge a beauty pageant and  George & Ringo went to a party at a house in Preston that our friend also went to.  

I've never met any of them to talk to , however I was once stuck in a lift in the Adelphi hotel, Liverpool with Gerry Marsden and we talked about being stuck in a lift.