From March 9, 2013, Reuters "Good Ol' Freda: Beatles' secretary breaks silence in new film" by Corrie MacLaggan.
Freda Kelly was secretary for the Beatles and chief of their fan club. She would sometimes go to the barbershops where they boys would get their haircut and collect the strands and mail them to their adoring fans.
She was one of the Beatles' longest-serving employees, working for them for more than a decade. The film is a documentary and shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
She was 17 when she started working for the band.and had to learn how to run their fan club. She remembers girls sending 4 sticks of gum which she would hand out to the Beatles and collect after they'd chewed them and send it back.
The film title comes from the Beatles 1963 Christmas recording in which George thanks their secretary in Liverpool, and they all yell in unison, "Good Ol' Freda!"
Kelly Freda was once fired by John Lennon after arriving late for a show because she'd been having drinks with an opening band. Lennon ended up on his knees begging her to stay.
Freda Kelly is a good friend with Terri Hemmert on WXRT, 93.1 FM who has the famous "Breakfast With the Beatles" show on Sundays from 8-10 a.m..
Good Ol' Freda. --RoadDog
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I saw this last year at the Nashville Film Festival where I went for the premier of FOLK. I thought it was quite good with stories you won't hear elsewhere.
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