Beatles’ secretary Freda Kelly finally breaks her silence

Fox ^ | 8/28/13 | Hollie McKay

[workerbee]

When Freda Kelly, just a shy Liverpool teen, signed on to work for a local band with big dreams she had no idea she would soon hold the most coveted secretarial position in the world. While history observes that the Beatles were together for 10 years, Kelly served them for 11

[blueunicorn6]

Played by a paratrooper.

[TBall]

I want to guess Jimmie and the Banner, but wasn’t written until 1812.

[Secret Agent Man]

not you personally... :-)

[Mark17]

I’ve been amazed how so many younger generation listeners don’t think they were that great.

I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show. I thought they were ok, but not my favorite by any means.

[Revolting cat!]

My older sisters' band was so much better at the time!

[Clint N. Suhks]

[Utilizer]

If it does not consist entirely of nothing but rhythmic chanting a la le Zulu tribesmen have been doing for hundreds of years with lots of (if not entirely of) obscene words accompanied with a heavy beat then they are not interested and do not understand what constitutes real music.

[blueunicorn6]

Shoot. I missed it. Who’s Arlo Guthrie? Was he Al Jolson’s drummer?

[Utilizer]

Actually, what I found most amusing about the beatles was how all the little girlies that loved them so made the term “bug off” so, ummm, ‘groovy’ because the beatles were heard to utter it so often. No one ever seemed to catch on in the USA that the beatles were not saying “bug off”, they were saying “bugger off!”. I still have to smile when I hear someone using that phrase...

[Rodamala]

Someone probably got this already... just getting through threads now...

[JoeProBono]

[zeugma]

One of the things that’s really amazing is that if we still had a constitutional copyright law, the entire Beatles catalog would be in the public domain now.

[dandiegirl]

I’m not a Beatles fan. Too sing songy and bee boppy for my taste. I do like Bridge Over Troubled Waters though. I much prefer The Stones.

[BlueDragon]

By 1969 people weren’t listening to the stuff from 1959.

Some were. That stuff was still on the jukebox at the roller rink.

If you wanna play the blues you got to pay your dues and you know

It don't come easy

[Baynative]

"Eight Days a Week doesn't do that for you??"

No, but "Love Me Do" did and "a Hard Day's Night" almost did. Later, John Lennon had some flavor with"Instant Karma" . I can't think of anything McCartney ever did that had a back beat to it.

[FrdmLvr]

My 26 year old son has loved the Beatles for quite some time now. I wonder if he’s your coworker! LOL! He bought the complete volume of their CDs that were released a couple of years ago and downloaded the entire thing to his laptop.

[donmeaker]

Gosh I must be getting old.

Sorry!

[Catsrus]

Or how about “Yellow Submarine?” Really stupid, stupid songs.

[Lazamataz]

In America, "I Want To Hold Your Hand".

In Soviet Russia, "MY HAND HOLDS *YOU* !!!!"

[jurroppi1]

“I can’t think of anything McCartney ever did that had a back beat to it.”

Wow!