Frieda Kelly: My life with the Beatles

“It was my own life. I just had to take breaths and tell myself to get over it. It happened a long time ago.”

And how do you follow 10 years with The Beatles once it ends? For Kelly the choice was to keep her mouth shut and have a private life. For decades she didn’t mention another word about it.

Then one day she was asked to share some of her memories on BBC 4.

“After the show broadcast I get an email on my screen from a young trainee solicitor at my office. He wrote, ‘I can’t believe what you did in your youth.’ I wrote back, ‘And what do you think I did?’

“He replied, ‘I nearly crashed my bloody car when I realized it was you who was talking. That’s got to be our Frieda in the office.

You’re talking about going to John Lennon’s house! What the hell is Richard’s secretary doing on Radio 4?’”

Kelly had worked at the solicitor’s office for 17 years before almost any of them had a clue about her past.

“I was extremely lucky, I was in the right place at the right time, I lived where they lived and I happened to know them. And I actually got paid for it.

“I am so glad I was a teenager in the 1960s because we had a ball! The world opened for us. I just loved that era.”

Rain, A Tribute to The Beatles on Broadway, is playing at the Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd Street, New York.  Visit www.raintribute.com.

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