Author Ivor Davis Featured Speaker at The Fest for Beatles Fans 2014, October 10, 11 & 12 at Los Angeles Airport Marriott.
The Fest for Beatles Fans 2014, the oldest and largest Beatles fan experience, will feature author Ivor Davis at this weekend’s Los Angeles event. Ivor was added as a featured speaker in Los Angeles after his appearance at BeatleFest Chicago in August. The event takes place October 10 – 12 at the LAX Marriott hotel and features live entertainment, speakers and what is dubbed as ‘the ultimate Beatles expo’. Mr. Davis will have a booth at the event for fans wishing to have him sign copies of his new book.
The schedule for his speaking appearances is:
Friday at 6:30 PM in the main room
Friday at 10:30PM – Discussion room – A Year to Remember.
Saturday at 7 PM is a special speech by Ivor about his experiences on the tour
Sunday at 2:45 PM – Ivor will be interviewed on the main stage
Ivor Davis met the Fab Four as a young reporter for the Daily Express. Ivor traveled with the Beatles as the only British newspaper writer invited on the entire tour. Through thirty-four days, Davis traveled with the Beatles watching them make rock history. He enjoyed unrestricted access to the four boys fresh from Liverpool – from their hotel suites to backstage at concert arenas to their private jet. He fended off excited girls (and their insistent mothers) and their attempts to hook up with the band. Ivor played all night games of Monopoly with John Lennon, became the ghostwriter of a newspaper column for George Harrison, and witnessed the night Bob Dylan “deflowered” the young marijuana virgins.
Later on his his career Ivor served as a foreign correspondent, traveling throughout the western hemisphere covering riots, floods, earthquakes and politics. As Editor at Large for Los Angeles Magazine, he and his late wife, Sally Ogle Davis, wrote more than 100 major magazine and cover stories. He reported four World Soccer Cups for CBS radio.
In “The Beatles and Me on Tour,” Davis recounts in frank and amusing fashion, the rip-roaring adventures of the most legendary band at a critical moment in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. The book recreates a world long gone but not forgotten, especially for the hundreds of thousands of girls who spent a summer night fifty years ago screaming for their dream, the Beatles.
Ivor continues to write from his home in Ventura, California.
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