{"id":1035,"date":"2011-06-13T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/news\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-06-13T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:59:32","slug":"fri-june-13-1969-london-mark-meets-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/fri-june-13-1969-london-mark-meets-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri, June 13, 1969 &#8211; London &#8211; Mark Meets John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/3907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1037\" title=\"3907\" src=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/3907-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/3907-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/3907.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>After graduating college a few weeks earlier, my friend Bob and I went to Europe for two months, beginning in London. The first stop was 3 Savile Row, Apple&#8217;s Headquarters. John &amp; Yoko were there, so we waiting outside for 2 1\/2 hours when a truck pulls up and opens its doors to reveal a Fireplace!. A few minutes later John comes out by himself to have a look at it. I said hello and shook his hand. I even offered him my passport as it was just after the Montreal Bed In for Peace and he wasn&#8217;t allowed int he U.S. at that time. There were about a dozen fans waiting, including three Apple Scruffs, but I was the only one he spoke to. I asked him if I could take some photos, which I did and also got his autograph on Apple stationery (occasionally show the autograph and photos in the Art Museum at the FESTS, At that moment, I decided I wanted to work for The Beatles. That didn&#8217;t happen, but I ended up selling Beatles records at Sam Goody for four years before thinking up the idea of Beatlefest, met with John and 37 years later, still going&#8230;It has been a wild and special ride. Thanks for joining.<\/p>\n<p>The image is from the Bob Bonis Archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating college a few weeks earlier, my friend Bob and I went to Europe for two months, beginning in London. The first stop was 3 Savile Row, Apple&#8217;s Headquarters. John &amp; Yoko were there, so we waiting outside for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}