Post by beatlies on Mar 18, 2007 22:43:17 GMT -5
Beryl Adams is on the list in Revolution 9 of celebrities who have been replaced with imposters. She was with NEMS and was "Brian Epstein's secretary." She died of new variant CJD: human Mad Cow Disease !!!!
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Book specifications:
by Lew Baxter
224 pages with 19 black and white photographs
ISBN: 0-9531995-4-1
Retail price £14.00, €22 and US$30
Size 240mm x 160mm - hardback
First published in November 2004 by Guy Woodland as a Cities500 project in association with Bargepole Press.
MY BEATLES HELL:
The Tragical History Tour of Beryl Adams - by Lew Baxter
This is the fascinating but often harrowing account of the life of Beryl Adams who was Brian Epstein's secretary when he 'found' the Beatles and began to shape them into a world-shattering phenomenon.
IN everyone's eyes it was a dream job but it was to turn into Beryl's personal hell. She dramatically quit Epstein's expanding empire just as it and the Beatles hit global stardom. Many of her friends thought her mad but the helter-skelter lifestyle took its toll and she even attempted suicide.
Bizarrely Beryl was also married to the late and legendary - and homosexual - Cavern Club disc jockey Bob Wooler who is today affectionately regarded as the 'Father of Mersey Beat'. He was famously given a good hiding by John Lennon but according to Beryl wasn't averse to lashing out himself.
Curiously, after ditching Epstein claiming she hated the lifestyle, Beryl went to work in Italy for showbiz impresario Alan Watts who was the manager of the outrageous Scouse comedian Freddie Starr. After that turned sour, she took a job with Ray McFall, owner of the fabled Cavern in Liverpool. She also became the first woman in Britain to manage a rock band.
Years later, in an astonishing twist of fortune, Beryl became the lover of the Beatles first manager, the irascible Allan Williams. She also remained a lifelong pal of Pete Best, the drummer ousted from the Fab Four in favour of Ringo Starr. Pete has even written an affectionate foreword in the book.
Fate dealt Beryl a final wicked blow just as she found the courage and determination to confront her old demons from the past. Two She died unexpectedly and horribly from vCJD - the human form of what is tagged Mad Cow's Disease, an affliction that strikes only a handful of people every year.
This book is the 'tragical history tour - to pun a popular Beatles song - about that 'ordinary' woman who was swept up and almost destroyed by the madcap circus that became Beatlemania.
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SiobhanMar 03, 2003, 04:48 AM
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2237994.stm
A woman who helped launch The Beatles' career has died of suspected CJD.
Beryl Adam was secretary to the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.
She was also married for three years to Cavern Club DJ Bob Wooler, who was credited with launching The Beatles.
Beryl's body will be sent to Scotland for tests to see if CJD was the cause of death.
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HMVNipperMar 03, 2003, 04:53 AM
Umm...I might be ignorant here, but what's CJD? Is that Mad Cow Disease (Kreutzfeld-Jakob Disease)? No clue...
Sad, anyway... images/icons/frown.gif
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SiobhanMar 03, 2003, 04:56 AM
Originally Posted By HMVNipper:
Umm...I might be ignorant here, but what's CJD? Is that Mad Cow Disease (Kreutzfeld-Jakob Disease)? No clue...
Sad, anyway... images/icons/frown.gif <font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Yes, it is what is known as Mad Cow Disease.
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HMVNipperMar 03, 2003, 04:58 AM
Originally Posted By Siobhan:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Originally Posted By HMVNipper:
Umm...I might be ignorant here, but what's CJD? Is that Mad Cow Disease (Kreutzfeld-Jakob Disease)? No clue...
Sad, anyway... images/icons/frown.gif <font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Yes, it is what is known as Mad Cow Disease.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks, Siobhan...geez, that's a sad and miserable way to go...
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Savoy TruffleMar 03, 2003, 09:12 AM
That is sad indeed! She was interviewed in the documentary The Long and Winding Road. She seemed a very nice, sincere lady and I was expecially touched by the loving way she spoke of George!
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beatlebangs1964Mar 03, 2003, 03:10 PM
This is a very sad loss, Tim. Thank you for posting this.
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Maggie MaeMar 03, 2003, 03:43 PM
Originally Posted By Savoy Truffle:
That is sad indeed! She was interviewed in the documentary The Long and Winding Road. She seemed a very nice, sincere lady and I was expecially touched by the loving way she spoke of George!<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">I saw that too. It was really touching - George was her favourite, she said.
How terrible graemlins/cry2.gif
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SF4-EVERMar 03, 2003, 04:21 PM
It's a shame she won't be able to make the Liverpool Beatles Convention. My condolences to her family.
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TimMar 03, 2003, 11:50 PM
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12695474&method=full&siteid=50061
Witness to the Beatles revolution, dies
Mar 3 2003
By Lew Baxter
Daily Post Correspondent
A WOMAN who helped lead the Beatles on their first steps to international stardom has died of suspected CJD.
Beryl Adams, the first secretary of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, died early Saturday afternoon after a short savage illness.
Doctors think her condition may have incorporated the symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the rare condition that kills about 120 people a year in Britain.
Last night, her younger sister, Dot Ash, said it was impossible to confirm the diagnosis but that the family has agreed to allow medical analysis on Ms Adam's body which will be taken to a special Edinburgh research unit later this week.
Ms Adams had been confined to the palliative care unit in the Royal Liverpool Hospital for several weeks after being transferred only a few weeks ago from an observation ward in Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool.
Her friends and family had maintained a day-long vigil at her bedside as her condition deteriorated rapidly over the weeks.
She began to develop the symptoms - confusion, memory loss and speaking impairments - only in late January but, according to medical experts, the gestation period for the disease is considerable and it strikes without warning. It acts quickly and there is no known cure at present.
Yesterday tributes were flowing to mark the unusual, if tragic, life of 66-year-old Ms Adams who had worked for Brian Epstein in the early 60s when he was forging the fledgling Beatles.
She also later worked for Cavern Club owner Ray McFall and had even briefly managed her own band, The Kirkbys, who have recently reformed.
Her sister, Mrs Ash, and son Simon Mullins said they were grateful for the wonderful care
Beryl had received at the hands of the medical teams both at the Royal and Broadgreen hospitals.
Mrs Ash added:
"They have displayed patience and consideration, especially as no one really knows even yet what was wrong with Beryl.
"At present it is just theory." Ms Adams's partner for the last 12 years was Allan Williams, ironically the man who managed the Beatles before Brian Epstein.
Yesterday Mr Williams told of his devastation at Beryl's unexpected passing. "The years with her have been the best of my life.
"I have lost a rock and a dear friend and companion."
Peter Grant, who set up the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo website dedicated to the Beatles and Mersey Beat music, said: "Beryl's story as part of that fantastic musical revolution is one that has never been properly told.
"She was loyal to the band and Brian Epstein for years and yet was there right at the beginning.
"She was a terrific lady." Ms Adams was once also married for three years to Cavern disc jockey Bob Wooler who died a little over a year ago.
Theirs was a special if turbulent relationship, which continued even after divorce and Beryl was a leading mourner at Mr Wooler's funeral.
She married her second husband, Peter Mullins, in the 1970s after abandoning the wild life she had led as part of the Mersey Beat boom. They had a son Simon, now in his 30s, to whom she was devoted.
For years, Ms Adams worked as a doctor's receptionist in West Derby unwilling to talk about her helterskelter life in the wake of the Beatles and Epstein.
She was a long-time neighbour and friend of Pete Best who had been sacked from the Beatles early on.
Ms Adams had been living alone for several years in a flat in the Alfred Stocks Housing complex in Dingle, Liverpool, just a few doors down the corridor from Mr Williams who was her constant companion.
Earlier this year, she was excited to learn that a book tracing her fascinating life - called presciently The Tragical History Tour - was to be launched at this summer's Estrel Beatles Festival in Berlin and later at the Liverpool Beatles Convention.
According to Mr Williams, she was looking forward to talking to the expected thousands of Beatles fans about her involvement.
"Now she won't be able to enjoy these latter day moments of reflected glory. It is just so sad," added Mr Williams.
But her sister and son last night revealed that they want the book to ahead as a tribute to her life.
"It is what she would have wanted," said Mrs Ash...SUPL:
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Books InPrint: - back to booklist
Book specifications:
by Lew Baxter
224 pages with 19 black and white photographs
ISBN: 0-9531995-4-1
Retail price £14.00, €22 and US$30
Size 240mm x 160mm - hardback
First published in November 2004 by Guy Woodland as a Cities500 project in association with Bargepole Press.
MY BEATLES HELL:
The Tragical History Tour of Beryl Adams - by Lew Baxter
This is the fascinating but often harrowing account of the life of Beryl Adams who was Brian Epstein's secretary when he 'found' the Beatles and began to shape them into a world-shattering phenomenon.
IN everyone's eyes it was a dream job but it was to turn into Beryl's personal hell. She dramatically quit Epstein's expanding empire just as it and the Beatles hit global stardom. Many of her friends thought her mad but the helter-skelter lifestyle took its toll and she even attempted suicide.
Bizarrely Beryl was also married to the late and legendary - and homosexual - Cavern Club disc jockey Bob Wooler who is today affectionately regarded as the 'Father of Mersey Beat'. He was famously given a good hiding by John Lennon but according to Beryl wasn't averse to lashing out himself.
Curiously, after ditching Epstein claiming she hated the lifestyle, Beryl went to work in Italy for showbiz impresario Alan Watts who was the manager of the outrageous Scouse comedian Freddie Starr. After that turned sour, she took a job with Ray McFall, owner of the fabled Cavern in Liverpool. She also became the first woman in Britain to manage a rock band.
Years later, in an astonishing twist of fortune, Beryl became the lover of the Beatles first manager, the irascible Allan Williams. She also remained a lifelong pal of Pete Best, the drummer ousted from the Fab Four in favour of Ringo Starr. Pete has even written an affectionate foreword in the book.
Fate dealt Beryl a final wicked blow just as she found the courage and determination to confront her old demons from the past. Two She died unexpectedly and horribly from vCJD - the human form of what is tagged Mad Cow's Disease, an affliction that strikes only a handful of people every year.
This book is the 'tragical history tour - to pun a popular Beatles song - about that 'ordinary' woman who was swept up and almost destroyed by the madcap circus that became Beatlemania.
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SiobhanMar 03, 2003, 04:48 AM
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2237994.stm
A woman who helped launch The Beatles' career has died of suspected CJD.
Beryl Adam was secretary to the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.
She was also married for three years to Cavern Club DJ Bob Wooler, who was credited with launching The Beatles.
Beryl's body will be sent to Scotland for tests to see if CJD was the cause of death.
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HMVNipperMar 03, 2003, 04:53 AM
Umm...I might be ignorant here, but what's CJD? Is that Mad Cow Disease (Kreutzfeld-Jakob Disease)? No clue...
Sad, anyway... images/icons/frown.gif
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SiobhanMar 03, 2003, 04:56 AM
Originally Posted By HMVNipper:
Umm...I might be ignorant here, but what's CJD? Is that Mad Cow Disease (Kreutzfeld-Jakob Disease)? No clue...
Sad, anyway... images/icons/frown.gif <font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Yes, it is what is known as Mad Cow Disease.
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HMVNipperMar 03, 2003, 04:58 AM
Originally Posted By Siobhan:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Originally Posted By HMVNipper:
Umm...I might be ignorant here, but what's CJD? Is that Mad Cow Disease (Kreutzfeld-Jakob Disease)? No clue...
Sad, anyway... images/icons/frown.gif <font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Yes, it is what is known as Mad Cow Disease.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks, Siobhan...geez, that's a sad and miserable way to go...
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Savoy TruffleMar 03, 2003, 09:12 AM
That is sad indeed! She was interviewed in the documentary The Long and Winding Road. She seemed a very nice, sincere lady and I was expecially touched by the loving way she spoke of George!
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beatlebangs1964Mar 03, 2003, 03:10 PM
This is a very sad loss, Tim. Thank you for posting this.
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Maggie MaeMar 03, 2003, 03:43 PM
Originally Posted By Savoy Truffle:
That is sad indeed! She was interviewed in the documentary The Long and Winding Road. She seemed a very nice, sincere lady and I was expecially touched by the loving way she spoke of George!<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">I saw that too. It was really touching - George was her favourite, she said.
How terrible graemlins/cry2.gif
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SF4-EVERMar 03, 2003, 04:21 PM
It's a shame she won't be able to make the Liverpool Beatles Convention. My condolences to her family.
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TimMar 03, 2003, 11:50 PM
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12695474&method=full&siteid=50061
Witness to the Beatles revolution, dies
Mar 3 2003
By Lew Baxter
Daily Post Correspondent
A WOMAN who helped lead the Beatles on their first steps to international stardom has died of suspected CJD.
Beryl Adams, the first secretary of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, died early Saturday afternoon after a short savage illness.
Doctors think her condition may have incorporated the symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the rare condition that kills about 120 people a year in Britain.
Last night, her younger sister, Dot Ash, said it was impossible to confirm the diagnosis but that the family has agreed to allow medical analysis on Ms Adam's body which will be taken to a special Edinburgh research unit later this week.
Ms Adams had been confined to the palliative care unit in the Royal Liverpool Hospital for several weeks after being transferred only a few weeks ago from an observation ward in Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool.
Her friends and family had maintained a day-long vigil at her bedside as her condition deteriorated rapidly over the weeks.
She began to develop the symptoms - confusion, memory loss and speaking impairments - only in late January but, according to medical experts, the gestation period for the disease is considerable and it strikes without warning. It acts quickly and there is no known cure at present.
Yesterday tributes were flowing to mark the unusual, if tragic, life of 66-year-old Ms Adams who had worked for Brian Epstein in the early 60s when he was forging the fledgling Beatles.
She also later worked for Cavern Club owner Ray McFall and had even briefly managed her own band, The Kirkbys, who have recently reformed.
Her sister, Mrs Ash, and son Simon Mullins said they were grateful for the wonderful care
Beryl had received at the hands of the medical teams both at the Royal and Broadgreen hospitals.
Mrs Ash added:
"They have displayed patience and consideration, especially as no one really knows even yet what was wrong with Beryl.
"At present it is just theory." Ms Adams's partner for the last 12 years was Allan Williams, ironically the man who managed the Beatles before Brian Epstein.
Yesterday Mr Williams told of his devastation at Beryl's unexpected passing. "The years with her have been the best of my life.
"I have lost a rock and a dear friend and companion."
Peter Grant, who set up the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo website dedicated to the Beatles and Mersey Beat music, said: "Beryl's story as part of that fantastic musical revolution is one that has never been properly told.
"She was loyal to the band and Brian Epstein for years and yet was there right at the beginning.
"She was a terrific lady." Ms Adams was once also married for three years to Cavern disc jockey Bob Wooler who died a little over a year ago.
Theirs was a special if turbulent relationship, which continued even after divorce and Beryl was a leading mourner at Mr Wooler's funeral.
She married her second husband, Peter Mullins, in the 1970s after abandoning the wild life she had led as part of the Mersey Beat boom. They had a son Simon, now in his 30s, to whom she was devoted.
For years, Ms Adams worked as a doctor's receptionist in West Derby unwilling to talk about her helterskelter life in the wake of the Beatles and Epstein.
She was a long-time neighbour and friend of Pete Best who had been sacked from the Beatles early on.
Ms Adams had been living alone for several years in a flat in the Alfred Stocks Housing complex in Dingle, Liverpool, just a few doors down the corridor from Mr Williams who was her constant companion.
Earlier this year, she was excited to learn that a book tracing her fascinating life - called presciently The Tragical History Tour - was to be launched at this summer's Estrel Beatles Festival in Berlin and later at the Liverpool Beatles Convention.
According to Mr Williams, she was looking forward to talking to the expected thousands of Beatles fans about her involvement.
"Now she won't be able to enjoy these latter day moments of reflected glory. It is just so sad," added Mr Williams.
But her sister and son last night revealed that they want the book to ahead as a tribute to her life.
"It is what she would have wanted," said Mrs Ash...SUPL:
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