George Harrison’s mom tells of ‘disgust’ at screaming Beatles followers in letter to Liverpool teenager

The mom of the Beatles’ George Harrison mentioned she was “really ashamed to be female” after she watched screaming followers at one of many band’s concert events.

Louise Harrison instructed teenager Janet Gray about her disgust at ‘Beatlemania’ scenes at a gig in Manchester in November 1963.

Ms Gray despatched a sequence of fan letters to the Harrison household house in Woolton, Liverpool, on a weekly foundation from 1963-1966.

In a sequence of 25 letters, just lately put up on the market, Mrs Harrison usually responded to Ms Gray, taking a eager curiosity in her private life, in addition to sharing the exploits of her son as his fame skyrocketed.

The teenager was one out of hundreds of followers world wide, who Mrs Harrison wrote and replied to.

“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,” Mrs Harrison wrote in 1963.

“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.”

Addressing {the teenager}’s quarrels together with her mom, Mrs Harrison wrote: “I do hope my writing to you will not be the reason for any bother at house. For in that case, I’ll positively not write any extra.

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“Now Janet I hope you’ll attempt to do not forget that your mum is your greatest pal, even in case you do not see eye to eye on some points. Thank God I get on high-quality with all my 4 kids and so they with one another.

“Anyhow I shall pray that everything will be just fine for you in the very near future. Lots of love, Louise Harrison.

“PS I’ve about 90 letters not opened but and tons of opened awaiting replys (sic).”

In another letter, dated July 1964, Mrs Harrison appears to mention a minor road accident that the Beatle was involved in after crashing his E-Type Jaguar in Fulham, London.

“George was house for 2 days, or reasonably nights – out all day rehearsing at Blackpool. George was not damage, thank God, in a crash,” she wrote.

Just a few months later in September, Mrs Harrison mentioned she had “3,000 letters to answer at least,” describing her son as “very thin but okay”.

Nearly two years later, in August 1966, Mrs Harrison wrote: “Dear Janet, I have just been away on holiday touring around France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and now I am back to about 500 letters and so I am afraid this will have to be rather short.

“I hope the boys could have a profitable tour of America regardless of all of the rumours we’ve heard.”

The pair’s letters will likely be amongst gadgets listed on the Liverpool Beatles Memorabilia Auction which is happening on Saturday 26 August.