Good Ol' Freda Page #6

holding the knob,

trying to keep it on

the same wavelength,

and waiting to hear

The Beatles' record.

And when it got to 17,

that was amazing.

I know it only stayed the week,

I think, but it didn't matter.

They were in the charts.

I was working for Brian Epstein,

doing a normal day-job,

but I also had to do

the fan club overnight.

Silly me, I gave out my home address

as the fan club address.

The postman

knocked on the door

and he said to me,

"Who gave this address out?

You've got 200 letters here. "

And I said, "Sorry,

won't do it again time. "

Little did he know,

within the next

few months The Beatles

became more famous,

and instead of just 200 letters,

they were coming in bundles,

and those bundles came in sacks,

so the van rolled up.

My father wasn't keen

on The Beatles anyway,

and his own

personal mail, you know,

your telephone bill,

electricity bill,

your gas bill,

all in the fan mail.

So he just

looked at me and said,

"You've got to

put a stop to this.

What possessed you to give

our home address out?"

I didn't think at the time.

My mother has never

played the fame game.

If she had, things would be

completely different now,

and she might not be working

six days a week

9 'til 5 o'clock at night,

very stressed,

when other people have retired,

and she hasn't got that joy.

These are all

Christmas decorations.

Oh, success.

I kept a couple of scrapbooks

with theatre tickets in,

and newspaper cuttings in.

A few fan club letters.

Yeah, they're old.

I think it's records,

and, oh, me scrapbook.

Yeah. Cuttings book.

I mean I have a lot of these.

I don't know.

Forty years since

Rachel was born.

I could have been

a very very wealthy woman,

could be a millionairess

if I'd have kept everything.

I had loads of autographs,

photographs,

all the fan club stuff,

Apple stuff, fan club records,

but over a period of time,

I gave it all away.

But I don't regret that,

because I know when I gave

the majority of the stuff away,

I gave it in 1974,

and I actually handed the stuff

to Beatle fans myself,

so I knew the Beatle fans got

all the fan club stuff that was left.

I've got these

four boxes anyway.

I didn't even

think I had four boxes.

As I'm flicking through,

there are so many memories

coming back to me.

I'll just pick something up,

and I'll remember that day.

Oh, this is George

Harrison's real hair.

A few months after Love Me Do,

the lads had their first number one hit,

which was Please Please Me.

We were gradually

getting letters,

from 50 a day,

200 a day, to my home,

and then it worked up

to about 800 a day,

and then eventually

we didn't even count them,

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