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harrisonarchive · 1 year
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George Harrison and John Lennon at the special Magical Mystery Tour screening party they hosted for the Area Secretaries of the Official Beatles Fan Club (including Freda Kelly) and other friends (such as Spencer Davis). The event - during which The Beatles At Shea Stadium was also screened - was held at the Hanover Banqueting Rooms in London on 17 December 1967. Photos: Gotta Have Rock and Roll Auctions; Freda Kelly; The Beatles Book.
“'I had a soft spot for all of them,’ [Freda Kelly] says diplomatically.” - The Toronto Star, 28 April 2013
Ryan White, director [of Good Ol’ Freda]: “George is Freda’s favorite Beatle too. She would never admit it, but from years of being around her, that’s what I think. [Freda laughs and shrugs, but her lips are sealed] - “SXSQ interview: Former Beatles Secretary Freda Kelly Finally Speaks,” Film School Rejects, 26 March 2013
George Harrison: "Nobody else has said anything yet about our fan club secretaries, Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose, not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool.”
[The Beatles shouting] “Good ol’ Freda!”
George: “So on behalf of us all, I’d just like to say a great, big thank you to Anne, Bettina and Freda for all the hard work they’ve done and we just hope we can go on pleasing you for a long time.” - The Beatles Christmas Record, 1963 (x)
“Oh, there were quite a few, and they’re all fun for different things. The How I Won the War premiere after party was quite fun because, God, I was so drunk. I was 22, and because it was a premiere, I was all dolled up and thought I was the bee’s knees. I didn’t have any ballroom gowns, so Mo Cox, Ringo’s wife, lent me a beautiful evening dress, and Elsie [Ringo’s mom] lent me a mink fur. They dolled me up! I’m not very good with makeup, so I bought false eyelashes and put them on. You always forget, and I’m always rubbing my eyes, so I’m dancing with George, and he’s oiled up more than I am, and he’s holding me up and says, ‘You’ve got a spider on your face!’ And I go, ‘What are you talking about? Oh, it’s me eyelash!’ [laughs]” - Freda Kelly (in response to the question, “What was the wildest, most fun night out with the Beatles?”), The Daily Beast, March 14, 2013
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ludmilachaibemachado · 11 months
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Ringo Starr, Freda Kelly, and Maureen Starkey, 1965🌹
Via @adayinthelifeofabeatlewife on Instagram🌹
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underthecitysky · 6 months
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fard-rock-blog · 5 months
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THE BEATLES FILE | Good ol' Freda
Freda Kelly era solo una ragazzina timida di Liverpool quando le fu proposto di lavorare come segretaria per una band locale seriamente intenzionata a sfondare: The Beatles. Ebbene, se i Beatles sono stati assieme per dieci anni, Freda ha lavorato per loro per undici. Molte sono le persone che sono venute in contatto con la band durante la loro leggendaria ascesa nello Star System, ma Freda è…
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greensparty · 1 year
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Talking with Ryan White
One of the most impressive documentarians who emerged out of the 2010s is Ryan White. He co-directed the PBS doc Pelada in 2010. One of my favorite docs of the 2013 Independent Film Festival Boston was his doc Good Ol’ Freda about Freda Kelly, the longtime secretary for The Beatles. I named it my #3 Documentary of 2013 and #22 of the 2010s. He followed that up with The Case Against 8 about California’s ban on same-sex marriage, the Serena Williams doc Serena, the Netflix mini-series The Keepers, the Dr. Ruth doc Ask Dr. Ruth, the legal doc Assassins, the Apple TV+ mini-series Visible: Out on Television, and the groundbreaking illustrator doc Coded. Talk about a diversity of documentary subjects! White has taken on numerous subjects: music, politics, sports, investigative crime, legal, historical and media figures. His new doc Good Night Oppy is one of his most ambitious docs yet. It follows Opportunity, the Mars exploration rover that was expected to last 90 days and lasted 15 years, showing the NASA team and Oppy’s journey. I highly recommend seeing this on a big screen with a grand sound system. I recently caught up with Mr. White via phone. 
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Me: Congrats on the new doc! I understand you actually got your start on WGBH’s Frontline?
RW: Yeah, my first film job was in Boston. When I was in college, I did two Summers in Boston doing internships. I worked for a filmmaker David Sutherland who was in Newton. That’s where I kind of learned the craft for the first time.
Me: How did this documentary Good Night Oppy come together? Did NASA contact you about this project? Did you contact them?
RW: Well, kinda neither. [laughs] So the project was brought to me by Film 45 and Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg’s company. They had approached NASA about doing a documentary about Opportunity Mission. So NASA is very protective over their archives. But I think having a company of Amblin’s caliber persuaded them to make the documentary and the defining documentary about Opportunity’s mission. They were the ones who got NASA on board. They approached me about directing it and that was in March of 2020 when we began the film.
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Me: There are a lot of documentaries that don’t lose a lot when you watch them at home or on a device. This is very much a big screen movie. I say this as someone who watched this on my laptop, but it is very much a big screen movie. Can you tell me about your visual approach to this epic subject matter?
RW: My idea from the beginning was that if we are going to make this movie, let’s take the audience to Mars. And is it possible in the world of visual effects now to do that in a completely photoreal and authentic way? I didn’t know that when we began. I didn’t know if that was possible. But we began those conversations because Amblin has worked with visual effects so much on so many of their films and TV series, and they set me up to have a lot of conversations with a lot of visual effects houses. Industrial Light and Magic, who were one of the producers on the film, they were the ones who really favored the opportunity to create a completely authentic Mars. They had done Mars in other projects before but it had never been a photoreal Mars. As opposed to an actor in a desert in Utah, creating the world of Mars around that actor. But they were really excited about the opportunity to create a completely authentic Mars that would be derived from the photography of the robots and the photography of the satellites that orbit around Mars. We had access to hundreds of thousands of photos from NASA, we knew the weather every day, we knew everything the robots were going through. So Industrial Light and Magic, even when they were lighting some of these scenes they were completely aware of the weather and PAL levels in the air. So it really was a documentary way of doing visual effects. 
Me: Like you just mentioned, you worked with Amblin Entertainment and ILM. What was it like for you to work with these companies that have brought so much science to the masses through entertainment?
RW: It was a dream. My favorite film growing up, and still I say my favorite film today, is E.T. That was really an inspiration for this film even though E.T. is fiction, it is a very similar narrative trajectory in the sense that the protagonist is a non-human character and they’re on this journey and at the end of the story you’re going to have to say goodbye to that character. And so, Spielberg is kind of a hero of mine and I’m sure he is for most filmmakers. And [ILM Founder] George Lucas as well. So, you know, it wasn’t like I was on the phone George Lucas and Steven Spielberg everyday making this film [laughs] but getting to work with their companies and they have such incredible people at these companies, was a dream as a filmmaker. And especially as a doc filmmaker, where you don’t normally work in those worlds where you would meet ILM. I’ve done animation on my films in the past, but you don’t need the best visual effects company in the world to be working on my previous films. This one needed to have that high bar.
Me: It’s interesting you mention the influence of E.T. because there is a real heart and emotion to this story in Good Night Oppy about how one can begin to love something that’s not even human and become emotionally attached. Tell me about how you approached that as a documentary director.
RW: Well you know we used the term Anthropomorphize a lot. Actually a cultural anthropologist came into JPL [NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs] and did a study between the scientist and engineers and the robot. Before I even began the film that was one of the first things I watched, which was her giving a talk and reading her paper about anthropomorphizing these robots. Why these scientists and engineers are very rational practical people who for lack of a better term, fell love with this robot. It was so fascinating to listen to her conclusions about it. Our mantra in the edit room was always “we can’t anthropomorphize the robots any more than the scientists who made them and love them and are willing to”. That was always where we wished that on ourselves. Even in the visual effects we were constantly consulting with NASA to see if the way that the robot was moving, the way her head would move, the way the lenses in her eyes would move were not becoming cartoony and was authentic to the way that she or they operated.
Me: Your previous doc The Case Against 8 played at the Independent Film Festival Boston in 2014, which was the same year that my doc Life on the V: The Story of V66 had its World Premiere there as well. So I feel like we’re peers, we’re both in that Class of 2014 for IFFBoston.
RW: Yeah!
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Me: And with The Case Against 8 it went on to be recognized by so many awards and organizations and it really made an impact. Was it important to you to use documentary as a medium to bring attention to causes and issues that can bring awareness to people?
RW: That’s a really interesting question and my honest answer is no. That’s not my interest in filmmaking. My genesis in filmmaking is that I was a huge film nerd, but it was all fiction films. I don’t think I knew what documentaries were when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. And I loved photography, so it was all photography in middle school and high school and that’s what I thought my career was going to be, non-fiction photography. So my passion has always been films, whether they’re documentary or fiction, but character-based. So even when I dabbled in something like The Case Against 8, like you said, and Good Night Oppy definitely has themes to it that are hugely important like climate change or exploration. But my intro into the films I make are characters. As you know as a documentary filmmaker, it takes years to make these films and so you have to fall in love with the story and I have to fall in love with the characters. So that’s always my entry point is the characters. If there are larger themes around them that can impact change that’s great but that’s never my goal in why I take on a film. 
Me: Right, the goal should be the film itself and if there’s things that can be done as a result thereafter great. I very much agree with that.
RW: Yeah, exactly. I love watching that happen afterwards, but that’s never the reason why I’m making a film. 
Me: I am a lifelong Beatle fanatic and your documentary Good Ol’ Freda I actually saw at the IFFBoston in 2013, speaking of IFFBoston.
RW: Oh really? 
Me: Yeah, I saw it there. I included it in my Top Documentaries of 2013 and of the decade. It was one of the few independent films to license Beatle songs on the soundtrack. Tell me about being able to shine a light onto an unknown part of The Beatles’ history.
RW: It’s funny you asking about that, because just last night I was talking with one of the programmers from IFFBoston about it and that project was such a fan film, it almost wasn’t even meant to be a film, more like a family-based project because I had family in Liverpool and Freda Kelly was a great family friend of ours. I didn’t even know she was The Beatles secretary growing up when I would see her at birthdays or weddings. The idea of that was just to sit down with her and document her story so that her grandson would have those once she passed away. It was never even supposed to be a movie, but it’s very ironic and it’s come very full circle, because Good Night Oppy has “Here Comes the Sun” in it. I think that’s like The Beatles’ number one song on Spotify, right? So it's definitely one of their massive massive hits. And I had a very unique experience because of Good Ol’ Freda and what it’s like to try to license Beatles music. Good Ol’ Freda was definitely a huge feat at the time. The Beatles’ were not licensing their music to film or television in 2013 when Good Ol’ Freda came out. We were like the little film that pulled off the impossible then. They have definitely started to license their music more, I hear it more and more. But still I knew how difficult it was. When I knew we were going to be using “Here Comes the Sun”, I know how difficult it would be and our music supervisor was amazing. She said “By the way, Beatles’ music is almost impossible to get permission to. The other artist that’s almost impossible is Abba.” And that was another major scene in our film. I think it’s really a testament to the story of Good Night Oppy that all of these record labels said yes to it. When you hear the logline of “A robot that was supposed to live for 90 days and survived for 15 years” and its a true story, it’s not Wall-E. People want to be a part of that. It warms peoples hearts for whatever reason. We were very grateful, but we were also shocked to be getting these yeses from places that would not normally say yes especially on a documentary budget.
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Me: I am a firm believer that if you are going to make a Beatles documentary, you need to shed some new light on them, otherwise you’re just reiterating what The Beatles Anthology or Compleat Beatles already did. So when I first heard about this, I was like “Oh, the secretary for The Beatles, didn’t know about her!” So when I saw it, by the end of the movie I realized it wasn’t even a Beatles documentary. It was her story and they were in the background with Freda in the foreground.
RW: Yeah, I mean I like The Beatles as much as the average Joe does, but I never wanted to make a Beatles film. I think its now in the Beatles canon of films and books. But that isn’t why I made it, it was all about Freda. Its not that different than Good Night Oppy. Good Ol’ Freda is like a Cinderella story because its about this woman who should never have had the opportunities she did, she was just some small town girl and she just ended up in the craziest most insane circumstances that you could ever imagine and she has a story to tell because of that. Most of my films are similar to that. Where someone - usually a woman because most of my films have been about women - that found themselves in these incredible circumstances and are looking back on it. 
Me: What’s next for you?
RW: Similar to what I was just talking about with women who found themselves in incredible circumstances and challenges, I have a film about Pamela Anderson that will be coming out early next year. I’ve been documenting her life for the past couple of years and it’ll be out in early 2023.
Good Night Oppy is now playing in theaters and will be on Amazon Prime Video on November 23: https://amazonstudiosguilds.com/titles/good-night-oppy/
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tiredeyes1975 · 1 year
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has anyone said beatles unholyverse. probably but ill think anyway
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Does anyone else know about the apparent quote by Freda Kelly, Brian Epstein’s and The Beatles’ secretary for the majority of the band’s relevance, where she says that she once walked in on Brian and a Beatle shaggin in his office and “it wasn’t John”? I read it somewhere a long long long time ago
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kjoy678 · 23 days
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He was soft-spoken and, unless he got excited, he spoke slowly but he was so funny with his quick one-liners. He could always make me laugh.
- Freda Kelly on George Harrison
Photo: Freda & George, December 5, 1965 at the Liverpool Empire, The Beatles final Liverpool concert.
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harrisongslimited · 1 month
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George Chapter of the Day #7
I Saw Her Standing There
Trigger Warnings: Swearing, adult situations, slow romance brewing, smoking.
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Chapter 7
The weeks flew by. Shooting was done, and the concert was scheduled for the following Friday. Joie was constantly on the go. Out to the pubs with Freda. Lunch with Cyn...and George took her everywhere...or anywhere she wanted to go. The more time she spent with him, the closer they became.
Joie woke to the sounds of the ever-constant chirping birds outside her bedroom window at Freda's. The night before, she and George laughed the night away, sharing fish and chips and a beer, at a little dive he frequently visited.  She even tried eating fish for George's sake, but one chew turned into a huge gulp, Joie shaking her head furiously, her hand signaling that she still wasn't a fish fan. The chips were good though, so she filled up on those.
When Joie finished her beer and was about to explode chips all over the sidewalk, George took her hand and walked her back to the car.  His hands were delicious. Strong, Gentle. She thought about her feelings for him, but she knew she was leaving in another couple weeks and figured not much could really happen between them. He was...well, a Beatle. She was just Joie.
From Freda, Joie began to learn about managing a wildly popular rock band. Freda was almost on her own, opening mail by the hundreds, sorting what belonged to who and what should be pitched into the trash. One Saturday, Joie offered to help Freda when she needed to go into the office to catch up.
Freda hugged her. "Yes, Yes, Yes!" she replied.
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 Joie was stunned by the amount of mail. Thousands came in every day. Thousands of pieces of mail. Asking for autographs, asking for locks of hair, asking for a Beatle to come to a birthday party. And things came in by the hundreds. Panties, bras, teddy bears, pillows. Handmade gifts.
"My Lord, Freda. What do you do with all this stuff?" Joie asked. "How can you possibly answer all this mail?"
"The boys help when they come in. Sign special things, do things for me. They are all very good about that. They really care about their fans."
"But this..." Joie pointed to the thousands of letters.
"I know" Freda answered, wiping her forehead. "At least I have a staff now. Before it was just me. We still don't have enough people to help. I talked to Brian about it. We need more help."
"Well, you've got an extra pair of hands today, Freda. Tell me what I can do." Joie said, rolling up her sleeves.
Freda grinned. "You don't know what you are getting yourself into...."
Joie touched her arm. "I'm ready. You name it."
"Well, just start opening mail. Requests for signed pictures go in this pile. People who want to be part of the fan club go in this pile. Ridiculous requests go in that pile. The sexy ones and requests for a Beatle baby go into the garbage. Don't have time for that nonsense. There are plenty of honest, caring fans who need our attention."
"Got it," Joie acknowledged.
"And for Lord's sake, watch out for paper cuts!"
Joie laughed.
Brian did not. He stood at the office door and surveyed his kingdom. "And Miss Kelly, when did we get more help without my knowledge?"
"Oh, Mr. Epstein, this is Joie Armagh. She's friends of the boys who is staying with me. Remember....California?"
Joie remembered the weak handshake but still extended a hand.
"Hi Mr. Epstein. Nice to see you again."
Brian nodded at her and weakly shook her hand. "But why is she working?"
Freda's eyes darted from Joie to Brian and back again. "Oh, she's just opening letters. Just to help. She came into the office with me today to volunteer her time."
"Nice to have you, Miss Armagh, but you will have to leave. There are confidential matters being conducted here and we can't have strangers in the office."
His cool smile made Joie grimace. Joie tucked her short hair behind her ears and stood up straight.  "Absolutely, I understand," she said in agreement. "I will be leaving immediately. I didn't mean any harm."
"I'll meet you for lunch," Freda told her softly. "Barney's across the street. 1pm."
"Got it!" Joie said as she collected her purse and made her way out of the North End Music Store offices.
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The Beatles went about their business, putting the movie together and creating a sound track. Joie didn't see much of them, but talked regularly to George, who seemed to have taken the role of her big brother. At least that's what she thought. But he called Freda one day and invited them both to his mum's house for dinner.
"You will adore his mum and dad," Freda informed her. "They are absolutely wonderful. Funny, sweet, and mum is a master chef. She could make filet mignon out of horse leather."
Freda drove, stopping first at the florist for some flowers for George's mum and then the chemists, picking up  the tobacco that George said his dad smoked in his pipe. The 2 women then headed north, talking about life in America versus life in England.
"I love it here," Joie told her. "I can't believe I'm going home in less than a week. The time just flew by. And you've been so kind to me. I don't know how to thank you."
"It's been nice having you, "Freda told her. "I wish you could stay longer."
"Me too!"
"Have you thought about staying? I mean, seriously?"
"Umm, maybe once or twice. I went so far as to apply for a Nursing Grant to study England's National Health system. It would give me another few months....but I haven't heard anything yet."
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George's family home was warm and friendly. His mum had a nice dinner waiting for them when they arrived, but they decided to sit and talk as they waited for George.
"He's always late you know," his mother told her and Freda as they sat in the kitchen. "Always. Even as a little boy."
"What was he like as a little boy?" Joie asked.
"Always focused on the guitar. Practicing, practicing all the time. Then all of them would come over and make such a racket. But I loved having them. I can't believe they have had the success they had. Things didn't look so promising when they were sent back from Germany."
Louise Harrison told them about their Hamburg days and George getting kicked out because he was underage. "That was the low point. I didn't think they would stay together after that. But things just seemed to move along and now...."
The front door suddenly swung open and George popped in, combing his wind-blown hair with his fingers. He smiled at his mum and dad and Joie could see there was a genuine affection between all of them and she felt right at home. George seemed different. Calmer, more open. Joie studied him as he kissed his mom and greeted his father Harry. Then he greeted Freda and Joie.
"Can I talk to you Joie? Outside for a minute"? he asked with a serious expression.
Joie thought for sure she was going to get a lecture about going to NEMS with Freda and offering to open mail. Suddenly she giggled to herself. She wondered if she'd get a spanking too? Maybe if she asked??
She followed him into the backyard for a cigarette and a talk by the swing that was surrounded by lovely flowering plants of all colors and shapes. It was a place for romance, if you asked Joie, not a stern talking-to.
He turned and offered her a cigarette, lit them both and took a deep drag. Joie was wondering if he was summoning up the courage to let her have it. 
Then he cleared his throat and started. "We...John, Paul and Ringo too, would like you to stay in England if you want to. We can arrange for a 6 month work pass. We had to prove that you could do a job for us that no English bird could do. And we came up with an answer: American Consultant. That's what you would be. You'd work with Brian at NEMS, help Freda with the American fan mail, help us before we tour the states. We have several tours coming up and you'd be a great organizer."
Joie's eyes grew to the size of saucers. She, for the first time in her life, was speechless. "I...I... don't know what to say....," she answered a bit shaky. "I mean I'd love to. But I have family and responsibilities back in California."
"I know. That's why I thought we'd try it for 6 months. I mean, if you like it here, it would be a great way to earn money, travel, learn the business...." George seemed to be chewing on the inside of his cheek.
"Well, you don't have to ask me twice," Joie finally broke into a big smile. "I'd love to stay....but I'd hate to keep imposing on Freda..."
"We'll figure that out since you accepted the job. We'll get you a car because you will be running errands for us. It's getting too hard for us to do it ourselves....even in London."
"I thought that's what Mal did," Joie laughed.
"He'll be on tour with us. We will all be gone for awhile starting in a month or so. But we'd ask you to come to America with us. Show us the ropes. And then come back to England. At the end of the 6 months, you can go back home, or we can get you a permanent visa."
"George," Joie hesitated before continuing. "Whose idea was this?"
George looked at her straight in the eye. "We decide together. We stick together. We might fight, but we are family and John, Paul and Ringo are the ones I trust and rely on. We'd never make a decision without everyone agreeing."
"Well," Joie said, "I'd need to call my dad. I'd need to get an extension from school...."
"Can you do that?"
Joie nodded. "I'm pretty sure I can. I've applied for a grant to study the National Health system."
"Well, call your dad and see what he says and let me know." George continued. "We would love to have you stay on for awhile. You are a big help."
Joie laughed slightly. "But I haven't done anything, George..."
He looked at her sadly for a moment. "You've been a good trusted friend. And those are few and far between these days."
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mrepstein · 2 years
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Brian Epstein statue unveiling in Liverpool, August 27, 2022
PICTURED LEFT: Chas Newby, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry of the Quarrymen.
PICTURED RIGHT: Gerry Marsden’s widow, Pauline, with sculptor Andy Edwards.
‘Proud of my Mum helping to unveil the Brian Epstein statue. Lovely afternoon and an amazing likeness to the man that Dad adored!’ - Yvette Marsden (Gerry & Pauline’s daughter)
Also present were NEMS artists Les Maguire of Gerry and the Pacemakers, Joey Bower & Dave Lovelady of the Fourmost, along with Joey Molland of Badfinger, Freda Kelly and Beryl Marsden.
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harrisonarchive · 2 years
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Screenshots of Freda Kelly’s autograph book (from the wonderful and highly recommended documentary Good Ol’ Freda); and George Harrison with Freda at the Beatles Fan Club screening of Magical Mystery Tour and The Beatles At Shea Stadium hosted by George and John Lennon, and held on 17 December 1967.
“Before they moved to London, I wanted to get their autographs. So George was in [the office] this day, and I had like autograph book upon autograph book for him to sign, and mine - 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 […] and it gets to mine, and, ‘Who’s this to?’ And I said, ‘Well, just - just sign that,’ because 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, ‘It doesn’t matter, just sign this.’ I remember saying to him, ‘Just sign the book, just sign the book!’ And he flipped it to the front, and he went, ‘It’s 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 my book?’ And he went, ‘I’ll get the others for you.’ And then next time he came in, he just threw it on the table and he went, ‘There you go.’ And they’d all put little comments.” - Freda Kelly, Good Ol’ Freda
“Ryan White, director [of Good Ol’ Freda]: ‘George is Freda’s favorite Beatle too. She would never admit it, but from years of being around her, that’s what I think.’ [Freda laughs and shrugs, but her lips are sealed]” - “SXSQ interview: Former Beatles Secretary Freda Kelly Finally Speaks,” Film School Rejects, 26 March 2013 (x)
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i-am-the-oyster · 1 month
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5 6 7 & 24 for the ask please!!
Thank you nonny! I nearly answered a few of my own choice as a palate cleanser after that last one. (Ask game here)
5 - A Beatles song that make you cry
I'm going to restrict myself to Beatles here, and not include post-Beatles. I think the one that probably makes me most emotional is I Want You (She's So Heavy). The depth of feeling expressed by those sounds! Incredible.
6 -  A Beatles song that always cheers you up
Even though Here Comes The Sun is a little bit overplayed for me, the sheer joy and relief still breaks through my defenses whenever I actually put it on.
7 - A Beatles photo that makes you happy
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the love was there, the LOVE was there, THE LOVE WAS THERE
(Sorry, but George's fingers on Paul's shoulder mean so much to me.)
24 - Favorite Staff members of The Beatles
What a great question!
First Debbie Wellum, stalling the cops beautifully during Get Back, and then "Don't go actually on the roof, it's overweight."
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Second, Freda Kelly. I loved the documentary about her, and I'm seriously tempted to go see her talk in Liverpool this August.
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So I've looked into George's friendships with women a bit and there def were limitations for various reasons. 1. A general lack of women in these spaces bc of the male domination of the time. Female musicians and comedians in the areas George liked were also more likely to be American. 2. The cultural aspect of the guys hang with the guys and the ladies hang with the ladies. 3. A mixture of George's friendships being intense and him being a whore, making platonic relationships with women tricky.
But! He did have some lovely female friendships. Astrid ofc, Freda Kelly, Chris O'Dell, Lakshmi Shankar, Cilla Black, Ronnie Spector, Mary Wilson, Beth Chatto (gardener), Yvonne Innes (gardener and wife of Neil Innes), Carinthia West (photographer), Vicki Brown, Jenny Boyd, and Pattie, Maureen, Linda were always close. He was also super close to his sister-in-law Irene and there's this interesting story of a Russian lady named Natalya Sazanova who taught him Hindi in India: harrisonstories /post/187842182188/in-this-photo-natalya-sazanova-is-on-the-far
Anyways, obvs not the *same* as what he had with men but I feel like in a way George might've had more female friendships than John and Paul bc they were so invested in their wives and he and Olivia were friends with a bunch of other married couples. O'Dell's friendship with him is particularly interesting bc she refused to sleep with him out of loyalty to Pattie. She had potential to be one of his deeper friends but unfortunately had her own issues to sort out.
Sorry for the essay lmao but in case anyone was curious!
very interesting research!!!! thanks for sharing!!!!
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ludmilachaibemachado · 10 months
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Photo 2 from the fan club screening of Magical Mystery Tour on December 17, 1967🌟
"'I had a soft spot for all of them, [Freda Kelly] says diplomatically." - The Toronto Star, April 28, 2013💐
Ryan White, director [of Good Ol' Freda]: "George is Freda's favorite Beatle too. She would never admit it, but from years of being around her, that's what I think. [Freda laughs and shrugs, but her lips are sealed] - "SXSQ interview: Former Beatles Secretary Freda Kelly Finally Speaks," Film School Rejects, March 26, 2013💐
George Harrison: "Nobody else has said anything yet about our fan club secretaries, Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose, not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool." [The Beatles shouting] "Good ol' Freda!"🍁
George: "So on behalf of us all, I'd just like to say a great, big thank you to Anne, Bettina and Freda for all the hard work they've done and we just hope we can go on pleasing you for a long time." - The Beatles Christmas Record, 1963🌹
Freda Kelly (in response to the question, "What was the wildest, most fun night out with the Beatles?"): "Oh, there were quite a few, and they're all fun for different things. The How I Won the War premiere after party was quite fun because, God, I was so drunk. I was 22, and because it was a premiere, I was all dolled up and thought I was the bee's knees. I didn't have any ballroom gowns, so Mo Cox, Ringo's wife, lent me a beautiful evening dress, and Elsie [Ringo's mom] lent me a mink fur. They dolled me up! I'm not very good with makeup, so I bought false eyelashes and put them on. You always forget, and I'm always rubbing my eyes, so I'm dancing with George, and he's oiled up more than I am, and he's holding me up and says, 'You've got a spider on your face!' And I go, 'What are you talking about? Oh, it's me eyelash!' [laughs]" - The Daily Beast, March 14, 2013🌺💞
Via @harrisonarchive on Instagram💕
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