Beatles by Davies Hunter

Author:Davies, Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

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Sandi Stewart is an ordinary American Beatle fan, not silly, not half-witted, just nice and sensible. In early 1964 she was living with her parents in a wealthy middle-class small town in New Hampshire. She was 15 and in the ninth grade at high school.

‘I was going to the supermarket in the car with my mother one day, in our Rolls, that’s what we had at the time, though that’s not important. Over the car radio came “I Want To Hold Your Hand”. It was the first time I’d ever heard of the Beatles. I went, Wow! What a strange sound. I just couldn’t get over it. No tune had ever affected me as much.

‘I found a lot of the girls at school had also heard it and felt the same. I remember walking down the street with two of my friends and discussing them. We all said how ugly they looked in their photographs, especially with no collars on their jackets. The music was great, but we thought they did look ugly.

‘Then slowly we changed our minds. I became really interested in pop music, which I’d never been before. I knew about everything they did. I read everything about them. I grew my hair long, because I read they said they liked girls with long hair.

‘At the beginning I loved Paul most of all. He was so beautiful. I couldn’t pinpoint it. He just seemed very beautiful.

‘I didn’t like George for some reason. I drew in a werewolf’s fangs on his face because I didn’t like him. I suppose the Beatles were outlets for love and hate. I eventually did like George a bit more.

‘Then I went more on John instead of Paul. He seemed so intelligent and witty. His body was very sexy. He became the one I loved passionately.

‘I became obsessed about John. I dreamt about him all the time. We’d compare dreams at school. Tell each other what we did with our own favourite Beatle. I knew when I was depressed I could start a dream about John, just by lying there thinking about him, then falling asleep. Those dreams were absolutely beautiful. We did a lot of things together, John and I. He made love to me and I’d tell my friends next day. They weren’t all sexual, but a lot were. They were so real.

‘I talked and thought about them non-stop. My father was always telling me I’d get over them. I’d shout, “Never, Never, Never!”

‘It was funny, though. Even though I loved John so much, it didn’t stop me chasing other boys at school. That was sort of different. But John was the most important person in my life.

‘I read all the fan mags and listened to Murray the K all the time. He was the disc jockey who was the sort of Beatles expert.

‘I got so desperate about John that I wrote a letter to Cynthia. I was very nice in the letter. I just told her I was very sorry, but I loved her husband.

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