harrisonstories:George Harrison and Mary Wilson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988)KEN SHARP: T
harrisonstories:George Harrison and Mary Wilson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988)KEN SHARP: The Supremes Hits A’ Go-Go knocked The Beatles’ Revolver from the number one perch on the Billboard Top 200 album charts. Over 50 years ago, The Supremes met the Beatles in New York City, what do you recall about that meeting? MARY WILSON: This was in ’64. I’m not sure if we were doing The Ed Sullivan Show at that time or if we working at the Copa in New York City, I can’t remember. The Beatles were meeting lots of American artists so somehow or another our person got with their PR people and said we should get these two mega groups to meet.Their PR person said The Beatles couldn’t leave their hotel so The Supremes went over to their hotel in our limo. We pulled up and all these girls came screaming up to the car; I guess they thought it was one of the Beatles and once they saw it was three girls they ran the other way. (laughs) They didn’t want to know. We went up to The Beatles’ suite and met them there. It was dark in the room and we weren’t quite accustomed to that type of meet and greet. (laughs) So we didn’t stay long and then we left. (laughs)George Harrison and I became very dear friends later on and he and I talked about it. He said, “We couldn’t wait for you girls to get out of there because you were all kind of square and had gloves on.”I think they were waiting for the Ronettes or something. That meeting with The Beatles was kind of odd. But as I said, later on George and I became very dear friends; in fact, I bought a limo from him.- “A Supreme Conversation with the Legendary Mary Wilson”, Rock Celler Magazine (Aug. 2017)Rest In Peace, Mary Wilson. -- source link
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