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Good Ol’ Freda Witnessed Musical History from Within

Hired by manager Brian Epstein just as the Fab Four were crawling out of Liverpool’s Cavern Club, the charming and cheerful Freda Kelly kept the Beatles’ office humming for 11 years — and then, out of loyalty and modesty, spent the next 40 keeping mum about it all.  In the new documentary Good Ol Freda, she finally tells her tales to director Ryan White.  This week they both stop by the studio to tell Rico.

Ryan White: I’ve actually known Freda for my whole life. My uncle is Billy Kinsley — he was in a band called The Merseybeats. So, I grew up going back and forth to Liverpool my whole life, and Freda was in my uncle’s group of friends.

I did not know she was the Beatles’ secretary — 0as we explore in the film, she really has lived a life of anonymity and is that private — and so it just never came up until a few years ago, when she approached me about doing “a little DVD,” as she calls it, for her family.  Just a family film.

Rico Gagliano: Too

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SXSW Interview: Former Beatles Secretary Freda Kelly Finally Speaks

Freda Kelly is one of the unsung chapters of Beatles history. One of few surviving members of the band’s inner circle, Kelly became the Beatles secretary, head of the fan club, and Brian Epstein’s personal assistant shortly after seeing them live in Liverpool in 1961. As a fan who became in charge of the fan club, Kelly, more so than anybody attached to the Beatles, could speak authoritatively about the band as well as the nature of Beatlemania.

Ryan White’s documentary Good Ol’ Fredais a wonderful testament by and character study of a woman who had been, up until now, one of the quietest members of the Beatles community. It’s a piece of Beatles history we didn’t know we were missing.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Kelly a few days after the film’s premiere at SXSW, and here’s what she had to share about her history with the most popular band of all time.

What do you think about watching the film ‐ seeing yourself talk and tell these stories?

Oh, I didn’t like seeing myself talk. I thi

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Freda Kelly

Irish secretary

Freda Kelly

Kelly during the International Beatleweek 2018.[1]

Born (1945-07-14) July 14, 1945 (age 79)

Dublin, Ireland

Occupations
  • Secretary to Brian Epstein
  • President of Beatles' Fan Club

Freda Kelly (born 14 July 1945) is an Irish secretary who was employed by the Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein from 1962 until 1972, and was president of the group's official fan club. Kelly worked with the band as they rose from local popularity to world-wide fame, and through their dissolution. A 2013 documentary, Good Ol' Freda, chronicled Kelly's ten-plus year association with the group and its members.

Background

Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland to Irish parents.[2] When she was 13, her family moved from Sandymount in Dublin to Liverpool, where by the early 1960s she had found work as a typist.[3] She became a fan of the Beatles after seeing them perform at the nearby Cavern Club, and soon became a devoted regular – by her own estimation, attending almost 200 of their

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