This photograph is part of San Angelo resident Leslie Healy's collection
of Beatles-related keepsakes. George Harrison autographed the photo
during Healy's visit to London.
Contributed photo
Leslie Healy and Ringo Starr at Ringo's home in Weybridge, Surrey, a town southwest of London. The photo was taken in 1967.
Leslie Healy was filmed this summer in Corpus
Christi for the PBS's "Antiques Roadshow." She and her Beatles
collection are featured in an episode of the popular show scheduled to
air Monday.
SAN ANGELO, Texas —
Leslie Healy's "Beatles story" begins like this: "I have always been in
the right place at the right time, and I've been blessed," began the San
Angelo Realtor.
Who can argue with her?
As a 14-year-old New Yorker, she screamed along with a crowd of other
teen girls in Ed Sullivan's auditorium as the Beatles performed.
"They were amazing," she said. "I couldn't hear anything they were
singing for the screaming. I don't even know why I was screaming, but I
was."
After that she knew what she had to do.
"From that day on, I said when I graduated I was going to England to see the Beatles."
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