Deborah’s Story

Hi my name is DEBORAH.... and I'm from the SAN FRANCISCO BAY area. I was fortunate enough to attend 2 concerts of THE BEATLES, one on 1964 and again in 65. I was just a young girl at the time 13, just ripe enough to fall madly in love with all THE BEATLES.

The one thing that really surprised me, when I seen them for the first time in SAN FRANCISCO in 64 was, how very red JOHN'S hair was and super shinny, with his milky white English skin he looked instead very Irish to me.

GEORGE sang only one song, which was, I believe, DON'T BOTHER ME. The whole time he was singing he looked very shy, and was looking at JOHN a lot with the biggest grin like they had there own private joke. Perhaps it was because he was nervous, as it did show.

RINGO looked incredibly happy just to be in the room and was waving his drumsticks in the air, to the audience’s roar of approval. And then dear PAUL looked so handsome and did the talking between numbers mostly appearing to be out of breath, he was also very nervous. Someone threw a huge paper bag at his feet and he kicked it out into the audience and twirled around in a circle clutching his bass guitar head thrown back looking up at the ceiling laughing.

The crazy thing was in those days someone as big as THE BEATLES played for short amounts of time. In the case of THE BEATLES it was 20 minutes. At that time girls would scream so loud that there was no way you could hear them except for maybe a word or two. But the audience in those days didn’t care if they could hear them. Anyway the thing was here they were in the same room as you, breathing the same air and that’s all that mattered to anyone.

Hey if we had wanted to hear them sing we would of put their records on the stereo anytime we wanted. Ahhh, but to be in the same room with them.... well that could very well be once in a lifetime.

Today I am 50 and I carry those beautiful memories with me and guess I will till the day I die. I still have both of the programs they sold at there concerts and wouldn’t ever consider selling them. I still love them. As in the button I so proudly wore thru much of my teen years that said, "THE BEATLES FOREVER!" in the 20 odd years since that concert, I've never experience any other concert like it!

Thanks Deborah I could almost feel I was there with you