Do You Want to Know a Secret

“Do You Want to Know a Secret?” is the story of the Official George Harrison Fan Club,  the only independent fan club sanctioned by one of the Beatles.  A 16 year old when it all started, Pat ran into many problems with the Beatles organization, and became friends with George’s family before it all ended abruptly in 1972.  Along the way, Pat made many life-long friends and took the fan club’s sponsored child from Thailand into her own family.  Pat spent many years trying to uncover the “Secret” of why George and the Harrison Family eventually shut her out of their lives.  Rare photos taken by the author.

The book starts out in Philadelphia where I was attending American Bandstand.  I loved that show, and my mother managed to get tickets for my friends and I to attend one of the tapings.  That became a regular thing, since you could easily get tickets to the next show taping once you got in there!  I saw many famous people at American Bandstand, but I only cared about the “Bandstand Regulars”.  They were regular kids, like me only lots more popular! 

I thought it was the most exciting thing in the world to meet famous people, and when the Beatles became popular, I wanted nothing more than to meet them and to marry George!  What I learned from the experience of getting close to George was that famous people are only normal people who were caught up in a whirlwind they probably were not expecting.  The experience changed them as people, and not always in a good way.  This story is how I learned all that – the hard way!

This is the complete story of the Official George Harrison Fan Club, the only independent fan club sanctioned by one of the Beatles, written by Pat Kinzer Mancuso, the President/Founder of the Club.  Rare photos taken by the author.

I hope you enjoy it.

Pat Kinzer Mancuso

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