WINGS FUN CLUB - recollections?
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Fiona M:
Me too but I only started being interested in Paul and the music in 1982 and joined not long after.
I became a Paul devotee in October 1984, but didn't get to join until my birthday in December 1989! I wanted to join earlier, but as a kid with no queque book convincing my mum to cough up (it's not as if it was expensive!) was tough
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And all the interesting things one could buy directly from the Fun Club. I still have the Wings jacket I bought from the Fun Club.
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The subject of the Fun Club cropped up in another thread today. I had to search a few pages back to find this topic, so this post is to bring this topic back into the daylight again onto the front page of the Not Such A Bad Boy forum. Martin
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Eeee Cor Blimey:
Fiona M:
Me too but I only started being interested in Paul and the music in 1982 and joined not long after.
I became a Paul devotee in October 1984, but didn't get to join until my birthday in December 1989! I wanted to join earlier, but as a kid with no queque book convincing my mum to cough up (it's not as if it was expensive!) was tough
How old were you?
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Checking the mail constantly, every time the next issue was due.
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So did I, I remember sitting in the window watching for the postman
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Those newsletters etc from the Fun Club were little treasures! So special to receive them in the post. I ordered a lot of the t-shirts and press kits. Linda's calendars were something I always bought. I think it's hard for people who weren't around then to understand just how wonderful it was. These days you have access to so much information; back then we were starving for news, pictures, anything about Paul. Did anybody here get in on video tapings etc?
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wow i wish it was still around so i can join it and get stuff!...Is there a Beatle club like this anywhere?
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beatles1909:
wow i wish it was still around so i can join it and get stuff!...
Same here... I was a Beatles fan while the Fun Club still existed, but I did not find out about it until after it went defunct. I really wish Paul would resurrect this club...
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i have some copies of club sandwich left, just pm me
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When the Official Beatles Fan Club disbanded, it left a void. And then, one day, right on the back of the newly released RRS, there was a tiny ray of sunshine that blossomed into a huge beautiful rainbow. I saved every single issue of Club Sandwich & all that came with it.
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macbrat:
Those newsletters etc from the Fun Club were little treasures! So special to receive them in the post. I ordered a lot of the t-shirts and press kits. Linda's calendars were something I always bought. I think it's hard for people who weren't around then to understand just how wonderful it was. These days you have access to so much information; back then we were starving for news, pictures, anything about Paul. Did anybody here get in on video tapings etc?
I got invited to Take It Away but could not go due to family illness at the time. I think when we were, as you say "starving for news" the excitement and anticipation was wonderful and when the news did come through it was as if it had been personally delivered just to you through the Club Sandwich, it united everyone that received it and made you feel special for belonging to it.
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The fun Club held it's own special magic for all of us. I remember how we'd call each other up & say: "Mine came in today's post! Did you get yours yet?" And we'd either share the news or wait til the others got theirs & not say what was in the current issue, not wanting to spoil the fun.
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I miss it very much
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I was a member for one year ('83). I remember the membership was $10.00. I was SO excited to get my first issue, and every one thereafter! But then in '84 I was living in many different places, without a permanent address. Also spending even $10.00 on something fun was our of the question....so I didn't renew
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Awwww it sounds like so much fun By some weird coincidence I crossed paths with an ad for Linda's calender for 2010. I had never seen one before. It has the most beautiful picture of a spider web, with dew... plus lots of other really nice ones... I so much would love a fan club, if it was brought back... I miss Lovely Linda So beautiful inside and out... *sigh*
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All the great photos in every issue, the free postcarrds & pull-out posters!
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It did feel to us members in the States that the UK members got tons & tons of opporunities to be filmed for some of Pau's videos & got invites to gigs, while we hardly got anything. We felt left out.
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I scanned 2 of my Club Sandwiches to my Facebook- The membership fee for me Was $13.00 per Year. http//www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=240855&id=698467138&l=270973e895
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I also need to add that I got to see PAul in Chicago in 1989 for $18.50 row 35 at Rosemont horizon,and Arrowhead Stadium Row 10 for $18.50, because Paul requested that his funclub members get priority seating.I never felt left out of anything,or cheated-from time to time I wished I lived in the UK just so I'd have those advantages-but it was all good. CHOBBA B CCCP was awesome! I dearly miss Sue Cavanaugh and The Funclub. The only issue I am missing is the last one.I remember asking to join when it first started,to no avail.Then after a few Years,I took pix of my entire McCartney collection and sent it with a letter saying please let me join-and they FINALLY did let me in. thus the 5/87 part of my membership #.I was looking through these and there are some crosswords I never did finish-I guess I'd better get to Work on them!