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While Sinatra sneered about 'kid singers wearing mops of hair thick enough to hide a crate of melons' and Noel Coward blustered that they were 'totally devoid of talent' and Lou Reed thought they were 'garbage', classical composers and critics, maybe smarter or perhaps just less bitter and envious, were often (and often very quickly) more embracing.

She wasn't old enough to vote. She wasn't old enough to drink in a pub. She couldn't get married without her father's consent. Freda Kelly was just 17(.) She worked (.)as The Beatles' fan club secretary. On her first day in the job, the mailbag consisted of two letters. A couple of weeks later it was forty. Soon there were eight hundred a day, which made Freda regret giving her home address as the fan club contact.