A concert in Manchester nearly sixty years ago by the Beatles made George Harrison’s mother ashamed to be female
Louise Harrison wrote in a letter to a teenager called Janet Gray about the hysterical scenes she witnessed at a gig in Manchester in November 1963.
“Last Wednesday I went to Manchester and I was really disgusted at the way the so-called fans just screamed right through the whole of the Beatles act.
“Nobody with any sense would pay and queue for a ticket just to stand on a seat and scream and not hear one sound from the stage. I was really ashamed I was a female.“
The letter is one of 25 that are up for auction from Mrs Harrison, who died in 1970, have been put up for sale by Gray’s family.
They will be among items listed at the Liverpool Beatles Memorabilia Auction, which takes place in the city on Saturday August 26.
