My Ticket to Ride: How I Ran Away to England to Meet the Beatles and Got Rock and Roll Banned in Cleveland (A True Story from 1964)
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A real-adventure, coming-of-age story set within the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania …
It’s 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in an sad dwelling in Cleveland when she falls all of a sudden, deeply in love … with the Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a pal, she hatches a daring plan to flee their dreary lives and run away to London to satisfy the Fab 4.
On their very own for the primary time―in “Beatleland”―they discover a brand new metropolis, a brand new tradition, and a brand new life, visiting the hippest golf equipment of Soho, assembly some good English boys, hitchhiking to Liverpool …
However unbeknownst to them, the runaways have grow to be worldwide information―and a hunt is on.
Journey and newfound freedom finish abruptly when Janice is apprehended by London police and hauled dwelling to Cleveland and an unforgiving juvenile justice system. Warned by accountable adults to place all of it behind her, she doesn’t communicate of her extraordinary journey for greater than fifty years.
On this memoir, she seems to be again with contemporary perception on the heady early days of Beatlemania and an period in America when younger ladies exercising some management over their lives introduced a critical risk to grownup society.
Writer : Grey & Firm, Publishers; 1st version (September 1, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 1598511165
ISBN-13 : 978-1598511161
Merchandise Weight : 12.9 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.76 x 8.5 inches
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