Days of casual chats with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in Blackpool

The Beatles on stage at the ABC in Blackpool

It’s blast from the past time again, linking some famous showbiz names; the Beatles, Freddie Starr, Mike Berry and Lennie Bennett.

It’s sparked off by a couple of Gazette items in the past week.

News that the Mersey Beatles are coming to the Opera House in November reminded me that I could be coining it right now - if only I’d got the autographs of the original Beatles at the old ABC Theatre in 1965.

I was chatting with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the stalls during the afternoon sound checks for ITV’s live Sunday night Blackpool Show.

Just think - four signatures on my Press invitation would be worth a cruise for two now. Maybe not a cruise - but something exotic next year!

The Beatles twice did Sunday night telecasts from the ABC, on July 19, 1964, and on August 1, 1965.

Source: blackpoolgazette.co.uk

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