Word: ringo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auction ItemWinning Bid Beatles Lunchbox $10.50 'Love Me Do' Single $6.00 Paper 'Beatlemobile' $10.00 Unreleased Album Cover $200.00 Revere Ringo Model $11.00 Beatle Sneakers $45.00 Beatle...
Strawberry Fields Forever, a fan club devoted to "the care and preservation of The Beatles," has spent most of July pushing its first Annual Beatle Convention. And now, all the hype bears its fruit. Devotees of Paul, John, George and Ringo have made the pilgrimage to Boston's Bradford Hotel. From California, from New York, from France, they have come for five hours of live Beatle music, ten hours of Beatle films, and an orgy of buying, trading and auctioning...
...look like your father." At hundreds of airports police erected barricades to protect the idols from those throbbing hearts; the Beatles staged daring escapes from their hotel rooms in refrigerated meat wagons. "I was in shock for five minutes," says a blonde girl wearing an over-sized "I Love Ringo" tee-shirt. Her eyes blur as she recalls her first sight of The Beatles: "Then it comes to you like total disbelief: These are them! You're seeing The Beatles, and they walk and breathe--the gods are really real! It's all the happiest emotions combined into one. Like...
...with the psychedelic Beatle posters. Joe Pope, founder of Strawberry Fields Forever, serves as auctioneer. Wearing a white Beatle-buttoned tee-shirt and a tuxedo, Joe holds up a "Genuine Beatle Lunchbox." Well kiddies, you remember those little metal cases with the smiling faces of Paul, John, George, and Ringo. "OK, I have 50 cents, $2, $4, $5, $6...$10.50 once, twice, sold!" The crowd snatches up other rarities: a Beatlemobile, made of paper and string, for $10; a Revere plastic model of Ringo, just like your favorite songbird or racing car, for $11. Joe picks up a hand-painted...
TOMMY; Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr and other rock stars; the London Symphony Orchestra (Ode, 2 LPs, $11.96). To record and package this LP extravaganza, Ode President Lou Adler spent more than $400,000, then quickly earned it all back in sales that last week zoomed past the $1,000,000 mark. Sad to say, symphonic treatment dulls the edges of Pete Townshend's now classic, some times pretentious "rock opera." Stick to the original version...