Ticket to Ride a Magical Mystery Tour ; Tony Bramwell Tells John Grimes How His Life Changed for Ever the Day He Met Old Friend George Harrison On the No 81 Bus at the Dawn of the Sixties

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THERE'S a line in a Beatles song about being on a bus when "somebody spoke, and I went into a dream..." That's what happened to Tony Bramwell.

It was 1960 and the 15-year-old schoolboy got on a bus in Liverpool to go to see a band "direct from Hamburg, Germany" who were giving a concert in the city. On the bus, he saw his old pal George Harrison sitting there with his guitar. Tony asked George where he was going and he told him he and the band were playing a concert.

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Ticket to Ride a Magical Mystery Tour ; Tony Bramwell Tells John Grimes How His Life Changed for Ever the Day He Met Old Friend George Harrison On the No 81 Bus at the Dawn of the Sixties

Slowly, it dawned on Tony that George was a member of the "German" band - and offered to carry his guitar so he could get free entrance to the concert.

It was the first time he had seen them perform as The Beatles. He loved what he heard and from that day on, Tony was at all their concerts, carrying guitars and generally making himself useful.

He didn't know it at the time, but meeting George on that No 81 bus would lead to a dream job, travelling the world, good pay and...

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