Thursday, May 14, 2015

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

I finally got around to seeing the 2013 documentary "Good 'Ol Freda," about Freda Kelly, the young and vivacious
Liverpudlian who served as the Beatles secretary for 11 years, outlasting the group itself by a couple of years.

The film, which has rekindled my love and fascination of all things Fab Four (not that either was all that far away), is charming, delightful, wondrous, and even bittersweet. It's hard not to fall in love with Freda, with all her innocence, and harder still not to reminisce fondly about the music and era itself.

I love this music more than any other, and if I tend to romanticize it perhaps a tad too much, well, can you blame me?

Fifty-one years after the start of the revolution was televised on that late-winter's Sunday night, the magic still remains.

And "Good 'Ol Freda" brings it all back home again, one more time.

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