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- Beatles Fan Selling Home Visit Snapshots
- Beatles pictures to go on sale
- Beatles fan's scrapbook of photos taken at Fab Four's houses goes up for auction
- Beatles fan sells snaps of heroes
| Beatles Fan Selling Home Visit Snapshots Posted: 14 Jul 2010 12:16 AM PDT A BEATLES fan is auctioning unseen photographs of the band she snapped while visiting the FAB FOUR at their homes every weekend for two years. Sue Baker was just 15 when she tracked down Sir Paul MCCartney's London property based on a vague description of the house she read in an interview. The singer later gave her the addresses of his bandmates, telling her: "Go and bang on their doors as well." The star-struck teen saved up money from delivering newspapers to travel to the British capital every week, knocking on the doors of MCCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. Baker was always given a warm welcome from the fan-friendly band - her little brother Philip even played with Lennon's young son, Julian, while she chatted to the rock star. She recalls, "We went every weekend and Paul would come out and sign things for us. Then he asked if we visited the others and I said we didn't know where they lived. So he gave us their addresses and we started to visit them. "They would always answer the doors and speak with us. I remember John saying that if it weren't for people like me, he wouldn't live in such a nice house." The collection contains photos of Baker with each of the Beatles, as well as MCCartney's directions to his bandmates' homes scrawled on the back of an envelope. It's expected to fetch as much as $4,500 (£3,000) when it goes under the hammer at Cameo Auctioneers in Reading, England next month (Aug10). Now a 59-year-old grandmother, Baker says, "I just hope someone gets enjoyment out of them. They bring back great memories for me." Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Beatles pictures to go on sale Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:19 AM PDT
LONDON - PHOTOGRAPHS of the Beatles taken by a devoted fan who regularly visited their homes in the mid-1960s are to go on sale in Britain, auctioneers said on Wednesday. Sue Baker, who was 15 at the time, tracked down Paul McCartney's home in St John's Wood, north London, from a description in a magazine. After she visited him numerous times, he volunteered the addresses of John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who lived near each other in Surrey, south-west of London. She then started visiting them every weekend for the next two years. 'They would always answer the doors and speak with us. I remember John saying that if it weren't for people like me he wouldn't live in such a nice house,' Ms Baker said in comments quoted by British media. Her collection of photographs, which includes shots of her posing outside Harrison's psychedelic-painted bungalow and on the bonnet (hood) of his Mini Cooper, is going under the hammer at an auctioneers in Reading next month. -- AFP Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Beatles fan's scrapbook of photos taken at Fab Four's houses goes up for auction Posted: 14 Jul 2010 01:47 AM PDT It could never happen in the security obsessed world of today's superstars. But back in the relaxed 60s, 15-year-old Sue Baker got a friendly greeting - and photos - of every one of The Beatles ... just by knocking on their front doors Her trip round the homes of the band she idolised started after a visit to her childhood hero Paul McCartney. He suggested she stop pestering him and when he gave her the addresses of the rest of the Fab Four, Sue Baker went on her own Magical Mystery Tour of The Beatles' luxury houses in and around the capital. Photos - coming up for auction - give a unique insight into the stars' lives at the height of their fame. Advertisement - article continues below » Superfan Sue, now 59, first started going to Macca's London home every week, having tracked down the address from a vague description in a magazine. He eventually asked her if she ever visited John, George and Ringo and, when she said 'No', he gave her their addresses, which she wrote on an envelope. She spent two years visiting each Beatle and recalled how they always answered the door to her, were true gentlemen .... and happily posed for pictures. Who would you least like to be stuck on a desert island with? Take our fun quiz to get news to suit your interests
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| Beatles fan sells snaps of heroes Posted: 13 Jul 2010 09:02 AM PDT THESE incredible unseen photographs of the Beatles in their heyday are set to make a former teenage superfan a tidy nest egg.Sue Baker was just 15 when she began her obsession with the Fab Four in the mid-60s and is now to sell her treasured collection of snaps of John, Paul, George and Ringo. Schoolgirl Sue visited the music legends every weekend for TWO YEARS. She started going to Paul McCartney's London home having tracked it down from a vague description in a Beatles magazine. After several months of visits he asked her if she ever visited John, George and Ringo, and when she said no, he gave her their addresses, joking: "Go and bang on their doors as well!"
GentlemenWith the addresses scrawled on an envelope she spent the next two years visiting all the Beatles and told how they always answered the door, were true gentlemen and happy to pose for pictures. It is a far cry from superstars of today who hide behind security gates and imposing walls, and employ an army of minders to keep their loyal fans firmly at arms length. The snaps include colour pictures of George Harrison with Sue outside the guitarist's bungalow, which was painted in gaudy psychedelic patterns. She even sneakily got her friend to take a picture of her sitting on George's Mini when he wasn't in and then took a snap through his bedroom window. On George's house you can see the words: "Mick and Marianne were here" referring to Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful. There is a picture of Sue with John Lennon sporting huge sideburns and snaps of Ringo with a cigarette in his hand. The teenage fan worked two paper rounds in her home town of Reading, Berks, so she could afford to travel by train to meet her heroes, often taking younger brother Phillip, five.
He can also be seen in some of the photographs. Phillip was about the same age as John Lennon's son Julian and sometimes the pair would play together while Sue spoke to the legendary singer-songwriter at his home in Weybridge, Surrey. Now mum-of-four Sue, 59, who lives in Reading with husband Ken, has decided to sell her snaps and the envelope Paul wrote the addresses down on.
She said: "I was a real Beatlemaniac and I remember reading in the Beatles Monthly magazine that Paul had moved into a new house. "It gave a description so I went with a friend to try and find it. It had electric gates and an old lamppost in the front garden. "We looked everywhere and eventually someone showed us where it was for half a crown.
"From then on we went every weekend and Paul would always come out and sign things for us. "Ringo and John lived up the road from each other in Weybridge and George lived in Esher (Surrey). "They would always answer the doors and speak with us. I remember John saying that if it weren't for people like me he wouldn't live in such a nice house." She added: "After a while the people who lived near John hired security because there were so many of us, and they tried to stop me knocking on his door. "I told them that John was expecting us. The guards knocked on his door and when he came out he said I was right, and told them never to stop people knocking on his door again." The sale at Cameo auctioneers in Reading takes places on August 3. The album is expected to make several thousand pounds. Alan Pritchard, from the auction house, said: "This is a wonderful collection of unseen photographs and memorabilia. "There are a lot of Beatles fans across the world and I'm sure they'd all love this unique archive. "Already there has been a lot of interest as there always is with good Beatles memorabilia." Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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