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Pop phenomena like the success of the Beatles eventually come to seem weirdly pre-ordained. But when Freda Kelly first got to know them, they really were just the ‘good little rock ’n’ roll band’ that Paul McCartney regularly proclaims them to have remained.
In fact, Kelly only really became their fanclub coordinator by accident. So when the fan mail trickle turned into an avalanche and frantic Beatlemaniacs started turning up on her doorstep having stowed away from the States, she was somewhat unprepared.
In spite of the myriad ways in which she could have monetised her intimacy with the Fabs, Ryan White’s film represents the first time Kelly has told her story – and what a likeable, modest and perceptive witness to the men behind the musical history she is. A charming fresh angle on the most familiar rock ’n’ roll story ever told.