I Met The Beatles Too

by Debra
(Missouri)

It was Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana that I was seeing when I was a school girl in Poplar Bluff, Mo. located over the Missouri bootheel area. Eric wanted me to meet some of his circle of friends that he knew I would like to meet. The story I'll tell now is the one that I'll be putting in my book. I think I first met The Beatles in 1970 or 71 and think they came to my hometown a couple more times with Eric, I don't have a good memory. In 1984/5 I had just told Eric I wasn't going to marry him and he came to Ft Worth Tx and brought George with him. We were in a country and western club on Cooper St in Arlington Tx near Dallas. At the time Cooper St was the fastest growing street in the country, it was like a boom town on that stretch of highway and the club was switching over to rock n roll or modern music. I was trying to dance with George and he wasn't moving. He started singing, "Run So Far" to me which is a symbolic meaning to me, symbolic like in the bible. He wanted to go beat someone up that was involved in organized crime and I wouldn't let him do that, I begged him not to fight." Then I asked, "Can I ask you something a little personal?" George said, "Yes." I asked him, "I don't think you wrote "Something" about Patti did you?" and he said, "No." I said, "Can I ask you something else?" George said, "Yes." I asked, "Did you love Patti?" George said, "Yes." (Eric was wanting to divorce her at the time) Then he asked me to see him. He said, "It's revenge, you know, on Eric." We laughed it off but Eric heard what we were saying and he went after George and I stopped him. Eric said, "I know what he said." I said, "You heard me tell him no so leave him alone." I don't know who was filming us I guess it was some of Eric people or the local media. I think I just saw George one more time a few months after that; he came to thank me for something I did. He was like a good friend, I don't know how anyone could not liked George. I pictured him as a brother to everyone and I cherish that. He was soft spoken, good natured and well mannered and I cryed for everything that went wrong in his life. I loved him like a bunch of other people loved him and I miss him.