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More than just a beatle boy

“[Maureen’s] face lit up as the group tore into ‘All My Loving’ [on The Ed Sullivan Show, as featured in the documentary The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit]. ‘My God, look how young George was!’ she exclaimed. […] Maureen Donaldson [née Payne] was sixteen-years-old when she went to work in the Beatles Fan Club offices in 1963. She was paid the equivalent of eighteen dollars a week to answer phones and sort mail. As the band’s popularity increased, so did her chores. One day Derek Taylor, the group’s publicity director, asked her to take a crack at writing a press released. For most of 1964 that’s what she did, as well as serve as hostess at the Beatles’ press conferences. […] [T]he real reason she wanted to work for the Beatles was the she—like millions of other girls—was in love with Paul McCartney. ‘I was convinced that once he met me, he would see I was unlike all the other girls who adored him. And he would marry me.’ Four days after starting work at the NEMS (North End Music Stores) offices in London, Maureen finally met Paul. ‘He’d come to take all us hardworking girls to a Chinese lunch,’ she recalled. ‘I was so awestruck being in the same room with him, I couldn’t eat. I just picked at my plate. And all Paul talked about was Jane Asher. It was Jane this and Jane that. It broke my heart.’ Working for the Beatles, Maureen had an inside view of what the group went through during the hectic days of Beatlemania. 'It was amazing what they had to put up with from the fans and the media, but at least they always did it with a sense of humor. They were so funny, you could wet your knickers laughing when you were with them.’ […] ‘The boys were so close back then. They were kids from ordinary backgrounds and they didn’t get big-headed. They were in awe of their own success. They didn’t really understand the magnitude of it then.’ Each Beatle had a very different personality: ‘John was the funny one, and after I got to know them all, my favorite. Paul was the sensitive one. If someone was poking fun at somebody, Paul would know when to stop. George was the serious one, but with a wicked sense of humor. And Ringo was the good time Charlie.’” - article by J.P. Cantillon, The Beatles: Anthology of a Band (1996) “The Beatles’ magic was a combination of their charisma and the brilliance of their music, [Maureen] said wistfully.  ‘Hope and love was what it was about.’” - article by Joan Crowder, Santa Barbara News Press (November 29, 1995) In 1965, Maureen accompanied Derek Taylor to the U.S. (as a nanny to his and his wife Joan’s children); she went on to stay in California, first working as a file clerk at Teen magazine, then as an interviewer on American Bandstand, for instance, and eventually becoming a photographer. In 1989, she published a memoir — An Affair To Remember — about her relationship (when she was in her twenties) with Cary Grant. 

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