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Gather i in Chicago’

2 ,000 Beatles fans|.

Aumoctebea Press .
‘CHICAGO ~The staid

Palmer House, Which bills

itself. as “the epitome of

opulence in hotel ae

commodations,” was taken

.over at the weekend by-more

than 2,000 Beatlenianiacs. |
- Instead of tie-wearing

. patrons and society matrons:

reading opera guides, the
ornate hotel lobby was filled
with hundreds of blue - jean -
wearing young (and no.
longer young) Beatle fans.

It's. been a long and
troubled .road ‘since the
Beatles cut their firat record,

"Love Me Do, in Liverpool in’

1962. Ringo Starr is 37 years

old, John Lennon, 38, Paul
McCartney and George.

Stew up in the 19604 because.

‘the Beatles represented
good things in an era filled
with trouble.”

“Today's teenagers want

to share the magic the

Beatles .made. And the

‘people in their mid-20’s now -
who grewup withthe Beatles .

won't let that magic die.”
For ($8 ‘a day, the
Beatlefest offered 12 hours of

Beatles films, a series of -

talks by people who know the
Beatles,'.a flea market
selling Beatles memorabilia,
soundalike and look-alike
Beatle contests,

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, September 6, 1977, PAGE 3

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’ trivia
contests and lots of music...
Lapidos has held similar

events in New York,

September, 1964, when they

were_on Ed Sullivan,” he

said. “There’s a whole new .
generation of Beatles fans,
We had a nine-year-old girl
call us and promise te! win

the Beatle trivia contest.She. °

said she knew
conceivable about .the-

‘Beatles.

“And she Wasn't even born

when the - Beatles ‘were -

together.’”* .
He, sald the Beatles are.
important to people who

r

Feeling listless? Out of
sorte?

Harrlaon, both 35. They Philadelphia and Los
haven't performed ‘together Angeles. -
in more than eight years. But He sald he got . the
Beatlemania lives on. Beatlefest idea “over a-dish |
. . ANd it wasn’t- nostalgia of ice cream at a place on
thatbeought together 2,000to | New York's upper East Side. -
3,000 fans for a twoday I figured we had to have
Beatlefest, said Mark something to commemorate
Lapidos, the 29-year-old the 10th anniversary of | e.
organizers. - Beatles coming to the U.S.
“The, Beatles are as im- —
portant today as they were in ee

a

Y harder when,
you're not in the

game, Get fit —

and turn the

clock back,

-- Fitnessisfun.
| Try same.

Your heart works |

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