Good Ol' Freda Page #3

but he was always himself,

he never put an act on.

People say George

was the quiet Beatle,

and I suppose he

was in one way,

but he was

never quiet with me.

He was more quietly-spoken,

I think, than the others.

He was very thoughtful.

Ringo hadn't joined the group yet;

Pete Bass was on the drums.

Pete was very shy,

and he was also very handsome,

so he had a big following

around town, from the girls.

They loved Pete.

They all lived my way home,

on the south side of Liverpool,

and Paul and George had cars,

and then they'd say

"Do you want a lift home?"

My father wasn't keen

on them, he saw them

and what he saw

he didn't like.

If they'd had

suits on, or somebody

had a suit with

a collar and tie,

he probably

would've approved of them,

but he didn't

approve of The Beatles.

But I was always

late back from work,

I was always pushing

and puffing and panting

and sitting down

and starting to type.

I couldn't say I

was somewhere else

or I got held up in a restaurant

or trying to get some food

because I had

the Cavern smell on me,

so they knew

exactly where I'd been.

The girls in the typing pool

had photographs up on the wall

of Pat Boone and Elvis

and Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard,

and I didn't like any of them,

so I found a little picture

of The Beatles,

but it was only dead small,

and I remember

putting it up on the wall,

and the personnel

manager caught me

when I was putting it up on the wall,

Mr. Mold, and he said,

"Oh, what are you doing,

who are they?"

and I said "Oh,

they're The Beatles,"

and he went

"Who's The Beatles?"

and I said "They're

a Liverpool group,"

and he went

"Never heard of them,"

and I said "Oh,

you will one day. "

Bobbie Brown was the girl

who went to The Cavern

and started a fan

club for The Beatles.

Now, I couldn't understand why

The Beatles had a fan club,

because they were

just a local group,

but I eventually

ended up helping Bobbie,

and then Bobbie

got a boyfriend

and lost interest in running

the Beatles fan club,

so I took over from there.

I was buying stamps

and salve in the beginning,

and I remember being in the

band room one day lunch time

and saying to Paul,

"You owe me seven six for stamps,"

and he went "I

haven't any money. "

And then Bob Waller paid them,

and I sat in the band room

until Bob Waller paid them,

and I said

"You've now got money. "

So he give him

his due and paid me.

I just had this faith

... and there wasn't just me...

you just knew they were going

to be famous one day,

but I couldn't visualize

the fame that they got.

To me, being famous

was playing on The Empire,

having a record in the charts.

Cliff Richard was

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