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A local fan was lucky enough to meet the Beatles in 1966

A local fan was lucky enough to meet the Beatles in 1966

A local fan was lucky enough to meet the Beatles in 1966
April 25
12:14 2022

Apr. 23—It was evident to Cathy Johnston who she was catching when her police detective uncle invited her to a show in Seattle in August 1966.

“He said do you want to go to a concert?” Johnston recalled. “I asked who it was that we would be seeing, and he said he didn’t know. ‘It’s some guys with long hair, and the band is some kind of bug.’ That made it easy to figure out. It was the Beatles.”

During the summer of 1966, there was nothing as big as the Beatles. Three weeks prior to the show Johnston caught with her sisters, the Beatles released their groundbreaking album, “Revolver.”

The world was trying to comprehend the sonic miracle unfolding before their ears while the Beatles’ performances were washed out by the din of screaming, hysterical fans.

Johnston experienced it for free as her uncle slipped her into the Seattle Coliseum. “I was 15 and a Beatles fan like everyone was,” Johnston said from her downtown home.

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Martin Nethercutt

Martin Nethercutt

Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music. Creative Director at McCartney Studios Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc. Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel Lives in Playa del Rey From Kassel, Germany Married to Ruth McCartney

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