Well, I once thought I was a pretty faithful Beatles fan. Ha. I was greatly mistaken. I have only dappled in Beatles mania.
For the past two days we have been thrown headfirst into Beatles History on 7 and a half hours of Beatles walking with a die hard British cartoon man named Richard Porter. He literally knew EVERYTHING about the Beatles, and even got married in the church where Paul and John got married, even though by the time he got married it was a library. http://www.beatlesinlondon.com/
Here are some pics of the excursion.... The first pic is of the building where the Beatles had their last live performance before they broke up. It was on the rooftop.
The second pic is of a really cool mural that was on a building in the Regent area. It was modeled after the cover of the Sgt. Pepper's album. The Beatles are still so influential!
The last is the pic of where the Beatles Mania officially began. Screaming girls had been following the Beatles for awhile before the media picked up on it because there had not been any big gigs in central London yet (where the media was) and so at the Palladium theatre, the reporters got their first taste of the madness of Beatles fans, and the phenomenon wwas front page news the next day.
Can't wait to take the Beatles Class!
jesse just gave me the link to your blog - i plan on re-living my London semester through you, ok? :) beatles was one of my first London adventures too. seems like yours was a bit tamer (we got lost on a bus trying to find abby road and it got dark and we got directions from a strange man in a folding chair on the corner in a small town)
ReplyDeleteglad you got to cross paths with your mom, that was a happy coincidence! look forward to hearing more...
the link to my london blog is on my facebook if you want to scour it for ideas!