Life had never been so wild, and this strange behaviour was getting scary to the Beatles. John had always been a rebel and his sharp tongue lead the Beatles into trouble. Fortunately the world was ready to forgive the fab four and welcome them back with open arms.
Touring had become impossible to John, Paul, George and Ringo. It meant being a prisoner wherever they went, not having their music heard above the screams, and living an impossible life. It was amazing that they had all survived so long with their sanity. They longed for the cavern days when they did as they liked, but they could never go back.
It had to end somewhere. At Candlestick Park in the USA, the Beatles ended their touring days forever and returned to the recording studios and their families.
Susan couldn't believe how she would cope without seeing The Beatles. She loved them more everyday, and decided that one day she would see them again. When some fans drifted but still loved the music, Susan stayed in the past along with Beatlemania. The fashions and thoughts of people changed over the years, as did the Beatles who still lead the sixties ahead.
She still thought of them everyday, and waited for the opportunity to see them again. She wrote letters to Beatles monthly often, and attended the fan-club meetings, but it wasn't the same.
She left school and got a job to save to money for a trip to London. Whilst she was saving, the Beatles were meditating, shocking the world with taking drugs, and John divorced his wife to marry a strange Japanese woman. They changed their minds so often, but Susan kept track of what they were up to.
In August, Paul and his girlfriend Jane Asher split up, and Susan felt that if she could only meet Paul he would have to fall in love with her - what else could happen when she loved him so much? She began saving frantically, and then in March of 1968, horror struck the Beatle population of the world............ Paul McCartney - the only "free" Beatle left was getting married!
Girls from across the world began to gather in London to get to see Paul and make sure it wasn't true. This was the moment Susan chose to finally set off for England’s capital city.
She had saved enough money to stay in London for a long time, and fully intended to do so. When she arrived, she found a suitable hotel and then headed straight for number 7, Cavendish Avenue - the home of James Paul McCartney. When she turned down the street, she was faced with crowds of sobbing girls everywhere. These were Paul's girls and they were devastated.
After a while she got friendly with one of the girls called Margo. She lived in London and showed her around. It seemed that Margo was among a group of girls who spent all of their time waiting outside 3 Saville Row - the home of the Beatles company "Apple Corps". These girls were now trying to organise the mass of girls streaming into London for Paul's wedding.
Margo taught Susan all of the secrets of "Waiting Out" for the Beatles, and soon she was spending all of her time hanging around the Beatle places.
Eventually the day of the wedding arrived, and the whole area surrounding Marylebone Register Office was surrounded by sobbing girls from all over Britain, and indeed the world. The press were having a field day, but to Susan it was the end of her world. She had finally got closer to the Beatles, but why did it have to be like this?! She had once sat down in the cavern at the same table at the fab foursome, chatting to sweet Ringo and being winked at by darling Paul. Now she was reduced to standing outside in the biting cold, seperated from her newly-wed Paul by a mass of girls and reporters, and being asked to sob into the camera by an over enthusiastic photographer from the Times! What a cold inconsiderate world this was to a lonely girl who only wanted the attentions of the boy - or rather Beatle - that she loved.
A couple of weeks later, the girls had recovered as much as possible from the tragedy that had happened, and Susan joined Margo and the group of girls at "Waiting Out" for The Beatles. They became the worlds most loyal and amazing fans, and went by the name of "Apple Scruffs". They became friends with the Beatles and saw them every day. And they were the witnesses to a disaster.
All of the Apple Scruffs had started off to follow their dream of meeting their idols and getting to know them. For this they paid the heaviest price they could. As time went by, The Beatles became so well-known to them that they were no longer idols. They became normal people to the Apple Scruffs. The life they had lead had turned the Beatles into something their fans could never imagine. They had become selfish, petty, and untrusting towards everyone. This was the result of Beatlemania.
The Apple scruffs still loved The Beatles more than anything, but as they began fighting amongst each other, they also grew to hate them. Susan had become very close to Paul and the other Beatles, but this closeness had revealed the real them, the horrible side of the once lovely and even normal Liverpool lads.
As Yoko Ono and Linda Eastman entered the scene, John and Paul grew against each other. George couldn't stand being a Beatle anymore and Ringo couldn't live with the way the others were treating him.
The break up of the group was bitter and painful, and the most loyal of the fans were there to see it happen and live through it. As the time went by, Susan found herself hating Paul and John for the way they acted towards the other members of the group. John had gone as far as smashing Paul's windows with a load of bricks placed in the car boot of his rolls whilst George, Ringo and the Apple Scruffs stood by and watched in horror. John and George were fighting fiercely against Paul and sent Ringo across to see him. In his anger, Paul had hit Ringo for the others actions. Susan would never forgive him. He just wasn’t the same person he used to be.
By the time Paul was taking the other three to court, she couldn't bear to have anything to do with The Beatles anymore. Everything she loved seemed to be in a war zone. As the partnership of the greatest group to ever live dissolved in a great and bitter feud, Susan swore never to wait out for them again, and left London and her troubles there far behind. From then on the thing at the front of her mind was her new family: a child and husband, there was no place left for even a memory of her days at Apple.
