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When The Beatles close their unsuccessful Apple Boutique at 94 Baker Street, London, England, UK, Europe, giving everything away to passers-by, the last item to go is a naked female dummy labelled 'For the attention of John Lennon'.Full article:
Derek Taylor (Head of Press, Apple Records) : I didn't go there. I had a half-acquaintance I saw outside Apple. I said, 'Where are you going?' He said, 'I'm off to the shop, I'm gonna join the queue and get some of those clothes'. I thought that was awful. And I didn't want them to close the shop and I wrote an impassioned open letter…Dear Boys, if you do this…and a lot of other hoo-haa. Because I dreaded to see the thing falling apart.
Barry Miles (label manager, Zapple Records) : The collapse of the Apple Boutique was an early signal of things going wrong. I think they lost about £100,000 on that, which was a huge amount of money in those days.
Maureen Hall (fan from County Clare) : In July 1968 my husband Richard and I went to John Lennon's house in Weybridge, Surrey, while we were travelling through southern England on our way to a wedding.
We didn't know exactly where he lived, so we just asked people - and they told us. As the gate was open and there was no security we just drove up to the house.
We rang the bell and a maid answered the door. 'Is Mr Lennon in?' we asked. We had seen him shaving through an upstairs window, but we expected the maid to say he was away. But she said she would have a look and the next thing I knew was that John Lennon was saying 'Hello' to us, closely followed by his son Julian. "
He showed us his psychedelic Rolls-Royce and the multi-coloured gipsy-type caravan he had decorated for JuIian. He also asked us if The Beatles were as popular as the Press made them out to be. He said they didn't know because they had no real access to people 'on the ground'. We couldn't believe he was giving us so much of his time.
After chatting for about 45 minutes, we asked for a souvenir. We thought we'd get an autograph, but he went back inside the house and came out again with his Ivor Novello award for the song She's Leaving Home. We were astonished We said we couldn't take it, but he said: 'It's only gathering dust here. We now keep it in a bank vault. Just like John, it's something we'll never forget.
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Barry Miles (label manager, Zapple Records) : The collapse of the Apple Boutique was an early signal of things going wrong. I think they lost about £100,000 on that, which was a huge amount of money in those days.
Maureen Hall (fan from County Clare) : In July 1968 my husband Richard and I went to John Lennon's house in Weybridge, Surrey, while we were travelling through southern England on our way to a wedding.
We didn't know exactly where he lived, so we just asked people - and they told us. As the gate was open and there was no security we just drove up to the house.
We rang the bell and a maid answered the door. 'Is Mr Lennon in?' we asked. We had seen him shaving through an upstairs window, but we expected the maid to say he was away. But she said she would have a look and the next thing I knew was that John Lennon was saying 'Hello' to us, closely followed by his son Julian. "
He showed us his psychedelic Rolls-Royce and the multi-coloured gipsy-type caravan he had decorated for JuIian. He also asked us if The Beatles were as popular as the Press made them out to be. He said they didn't know because they had no real access to people 'on the ground'. We couldn't believe he was giving us so much of his time.
After chatting for about 45 minutes, we asked for a souvenir. We thought we'd get an autograph, but he went back inside the house and came out again with his Ivor Novello award for the song She's Leaving Home. We were astonished We said we couldn't take it, but he said: 'It's only gathering dust here. We now keep it in a bank vault. Just like John, it's something we'll never forget.