Good Ol' Freda
Hello, this is John
speaking with his voice.
We're all very happy
to be able to talk to you
like this on this
little bit of plastic.
This record reaches you at the end of
a really dear year for us,
and it's all due to you.
I'd like to say thank you to all
of the Beatle people
who have written to
me during the year.
I'd love to reply personally
to everyone,
but I just
haven't enough pens.
This is Paul here.
We're all dead pleased by the way
you've treated us in 1963,
and we're trying to do
everything we can to please you
with the type of songs we write
and record next year.
Well,
I'm running out of my time
and people are
telling me to stop...
Stop! Stop! Stop!
So I'll finish now
with wishing everyone
Happy Crimble,
and a merry new year.
Ya Ringo!
Hello, Ringo here.
As you know,
I was the last member
to join The Beatles.
I started to play
gongs in the group 1962.
Thank you Ringo, thank you Ringo.
We'll phone you.
I'm George Harrison!
Nobody else has
said anything yet
about our secretary,
Freda Kelly in Liverpool.
Good old Freda!
So on behalf of us all,
I'd just like
to say a great
big "thank you"...
I was just
a secretary then,
and, funny enough,
and who would want
to hear the secretary's story?
Millions
of girls around
the world wanted
this dream job:
they wanted to
be the secretary.
She epitomized all their dreams
and all their hopes,
to be Freda Kelly
and to be that
close to The Beatles.
Well, I didn't expect to talk,
maybe grab one of them,
but I wouldn't hurt 'em,
I wouldn't hurt 'em,
I'd just talk to them maybe,
but I wouldn't, you know, grab...
like,
everybody says they're gonna
cut their hair
and everything...
we wouldn't do that.
If you look
at what is history now,
The Beatles were
together ten years.
Freda worked for
The Beatles for eleven.
She was there right
before they made it,
and right after they finished,
so that says it all,
basically.
Tell me, when you hear
a Beatles record,
what thoughts run
through your mind?
Beauty, sheer beauty.
The Beatles bring
joy into the world:
they're happiness; we forget our cares
when we hear Beatle records.
Freda was far more than
a secretary to the Beatles;
she was a family member.
She's never had
the same recognition
that a number of people
within the inner circle have had,
simply because she
never pushed herself,
she never agreed to do interviews,
she's always kept a very very
confidential existence.
We came
here at 6 o'clock
in the morning,
5:
30, to see them,and all they do is push you
farther and farther away
and then they don't even
let you see them!
A lot of people didn't take
these girls seriously,
but I did, because, you know,
I was one of them...
I was a fan me self.
So I knew where
they were coming from.
We grew up with them.
You know, they started
when they were younger
and we were younger.
And all through
these years, we've just
developed with them
and grown up with them,
and they belong
to us, you know?
But there could
never be another Beatles.
Never.
She's one
of the last survivors
and you know,
will be, surely,
one of the last true stories
of the Beatles
that you'll ever really hear.
I've been a secretary
for half a century,
fifty years,
and that's quite frightening.
This job is interesting,
but it's not as exciting as my last job.
I don't get the phone calls
that I did in the 60's,
like, you know,
an invite to a premiere,
you know, "Roy Orbison's
having a party
and we've managed
to get a few tickets,
do you want to
come to that Fre?"
And I'm like "Yeah, okay,
I'm on the next train!"
I left school
when I was sixteen,
and my first job was
at a firm called Prince's.
I was in
which is rows of secretaries
just typing away.
The lads from
different levels of law
would come down
and give me work to do,
but most of my day was just
spent typing contracts,
typing letters...
it wasn't the most glamorous of jobs,
but I was a working woman now.
One day,
two guys from upstairs
came down and
came over to my desk
and just said "Come on Freda,
we're going to take you out for lunch. "
I didn't know where I was going,
and I ended up in The Cavern.
Now, I'd never been
to The Cavern before,
I didn't even know what I was going into,
because it was a cellar.
It had a unique smell:
there was no ventilation,
and sometimes the toilets overflowed,
and it was
opposite a fruit market,
so it was probably a mixture
of disinfectant,
rotten fruit, and sweat
all rolled into one.
There was three archways,
and in the middle archway
was wooden seats,
all different
types of wooden seats,
they weren't all in rows
and all the same.
There was a little
wooden stage at the back,
and The Beatles were playing on the stage
And I'd never experienced
anything like that...
it was everything about them,
it was just the way they dressed,
with all this leather gear,
they were larking about,
and dancing on stage,
and mucking about
with the audience,
and on top of everything else,
there was the music.
It was just unlike anything
I'd ever heard.
I was hooked.
I just was amazed
by everything I saw,
and I thought "That's it,
I'm going to go tomorrow. "
Well I think
it's put down that
like 294 times.
Out of that, I would say,
I probably saw them about 190 times.
Freda was definitely
a staple of The Cavern,
she was always there,
and she always
sat in the same seat.
I used to like the second arch
on the left hand side,
because it was
just that handy.
You could pop in and out the
band room all the time.
There was about two
rows in the front,
they would leave
their rollers in
until before
the lads would come onstage,
and then they'd
and doll
theirselves up and everything.
It was conversation all the time
with the audience.
Somebody came in, a different hairstyle,
they'd pick on them.
They'd go "Have you been
the hairdresser's?"
or "Who got you up this morning?"
But he answered them back.
They liked the razzmatazz
between you and them.
People used to
write down a number,
give it to them, and ask them
would they right play that number.
Now, if you gave it to John,
Paul always went over to John
and leaned over his shoulder
and read the request out.
I thought "Can
John read, or...?"
to be honest...
he'd look at
the crowd like that
as if he was going to kill
everyone in the crowd.
And then I
mentioned it to somebody
and they said "Oh, no, no,
John's as blind as a bat.
never wears his glasses,
so he can't see further
than his nose. "
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