Post by amonre on Feb 8, 2014 19:01:21 GMT -5
"Where's the bus? Where's the bus?"
Well... here it is!
Something absolutely wonderful happened to me. Let me tell you.
I first visited the "Beatles Stammtisch Hannover" in April 2013. It is a monthly meeting of Beatles Fans in my hometown Hanover. We meet to discuss Beatle related toppics and visit some places all over Germany. For example museums, exhibitions, concerts of Beatles tribute bands and - for my great pleasure - we went on to visit places where they made the movie "How I Won the War" in Celle, Verden and Osterode, not to far from our home in Hanover. We saw the hotel John Lennon was sleeping in autumn 1966 and the place where they cut off his hair. In Verden there is also a Lennon statue:
This was an excellent, interesting and funny experience for me. But now there was something so much better happening. We bought the bus! What bus? THE BUS!
THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR BUS!
Well, it's NOT the original bus used in the movie, but it's the ONLY identical twin ever made (built in 1968).
It all began with Simon, who was a child actor in MMT. He and his sister played in a couple of scenes when he was 7 years old. He now lives and works in Germany for some decades and has one of the largest collection of MMT collectibles in the world. Last autumn he saw the chance of his liftime, to buy this magical vehicle.
With a little help from our "Stammtisch" he got it. We really bought the bus!
Simon and some others travelled to Scotland to collect the one. It's now here in Germany and I can't hardly wait to see it. I'm so excited about it. A childhood dream comes true to me. When I was a little kid I was listening to the Beatles' psychedelic records everyday, watched "Yellow Submarine" and "MMT" uncountable times and dreamt to be collected by the Beatles to be taken on magical mystery tour in their bus or in the submarine to a place like Pepperland.
So it will be a holy moment for me to get in the bus picture myself on a trip of my lifetime.
I still can't believe it. This is really magic with a "K"!You can find some press articles (some of them in english) on the "Beatles Stammtisch" homepage.
www.beatles-stammtisch-hannover.de/MMT-Bus.html
