Reply #35: I'm almost in tears

[Maccagirl]

Captures exactly what the magic was about. I guess, as the saying goes, you had to be there. Thank God I was.

The one Beatle anedote I have relates to my best friend in high school: Lynn's much-older sister (Lynn would have been 7 at the time). Her sister was married to a guy who had a cousin out in Illinois who was married to George Harrison's sister, Louise. Lynn's sister and hubby went out to the St. Louis area in late summer of '63 for a family reunion and George was visiting his sister (his first visit to the U.S.-prior to the Ed Sullivam Show). Anyway, George was talking to a an elderly uncle and the uncle asked George what he did back in England. When George said he played guitar in a group called the Beatles the uncle said "The Beatles? Son, with a silly name like that, you guys won't go anywhere.".