00:00I've been a secretary for half a century.
00:09It's not as exciting as my last job.
00:19The Beatles needed a secretary.
00:21I just couldn't believe that I was starting my dream job,
00:24working for the Beatles.
00:26The Beatles were together 10 years.
00:29Freda, she was there right before they made it
00:31and right after they finished.
00:33On behalf of us all, I'd just like to say a great big thank you
00:36to our secretary, Freda Kelly.
00:38Hello, Freda!
00:39Silly me, I gave out my home address as the fan club address
00:43and the van rolled up.
00:46I was very naive.
00:52Once I joined the Beatles organisation,
00:54I grew up overnight in more ways than one.
00:56I was out with Paul, walking somewhere.
00:59Somebody saw us and then it was, you know, I was marrying Paul.
01:03They got a quote, Paul McCarney is not marrying Freda Kelly.
01:08Somebody sent a pillowcase in and said,
01:10can you get Richie to sleep on it?
01:12I remember saying to us, mum, can you make sure he sleeps on it?
01:15Freda was far more than a secretary to the Beatles.
01:19She was a family member.
01:24It's all fun when we were teenagers, but your life changes.
01:28Obviously, we can't keep playing the same sort of music.
01:31It wasn't what the Beatles were doing as a group anymore.
01:34It was what they were doing individually.
01:35Is the atmosphere today anything like it was ten years ago?
01:39Yeah.
01:39What's missing?
01:40The closeness.
01:45This story of Freda Kelly's will be one of the last true stories of the Beatles
01:49that you'll ever really hear.
01:51I don't know why they picked me.
01:53Maybe it was just fate.
01:54I was taken along for this ten-year exciting ride.
01:58I was, and still, a Beatle fan.
02:13Did you go out with any of them?
02:15Pass.
02:17There's stories there?
02:19Oh, there is stories, but I don't want anybody's hair falling out.
02:22Me know, I haven't caught like this before.
02:40See you next time.
02:42See you next time.
02:42Bye.
02:47See you next time.
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