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.
00:29Frida, 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, Frida Kelly.
00:38Without Frida!
00:39Silly me, I gave out my home address as the fan club address
00:43and the van rolled up.
00:45I 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 and somebody saw us
01:00and then it was, you know, I was marrying Paul.
01:03They got a quote,
01:04Paul McCarney is not marrying Frida Kelly.
01:08Somebody sent a pillowcase in and said,
01:10can you get Richie to sleep on this?
01:12I remember saying to his mum,
01:13can you make sure he sleeps on it?
01:15Frida was far more than a secretary to the Beatles.
01:19She was a family member.
01:21It was all fun when we were teenagers,
01:26but 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.
01:36Is the atmosphere today anything like it was 10 years ago?
01:39No, no.
01:39What's missing?
01:40The closeness.
01:41This story of Frida Kelly's will be one of the last true stories
01:49of the Beatles that 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 10-year exciting ride.
02:04I was, I'm still, a Beatle fan.
02:07Did you go out with any of them?
02:15Pass.
02:17There's stories there?
02:19Oh, there is stories,
02:20but I don't want anybody's hair falling out.
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