Plays

Album by David Rimmer
Trish is a 16 year old in August 1965 she now loves the Beatles.  In this scene she is sprawled on her bedroom floor, holding a picture of John Lennon.  She has turned defiant with the new music and mood.
Trish:  Okay Okay! (she grudgingly turns down the radio, and the volume of "Ticket to Ride" goes down. She gets up, muttering and grumbling as she walks around the room in frustration) Haven't you gone yet?....God...(She looks out the window and hears the sound of a car starting up and pulling away.  She yells) I'll listen as loud as I want! (Afraid she said it too loud she takes a quick look outside, then relieved, goes to her radio and turns it back up.  She sings along with the second verse of the song, changing the lyrics to show her anger toward her parents: from "she" and "me" to "I" and "you."  As she sings, she sits on the floor and defiantly lights a cigarette.  After a second or two of pleasure, the smoke gets in her eyes and she reacts in pain.  The she turns her attention to the album. leafing through it, writing in it, turning down the radio a bit) Written' in your sacred old picture album again, Mom.  "A Thousand Stars," "Surfer Girl," Ecch.  Ancient history. (smiles) "Eight days a week," "Help!" "Ticket to Ride."  Here's what happens, Mom:  I met John Lennon at a party and he needed help just like a regular person, he's having problems with Cynthia and he's just waiting for the right bird to fly away with and I'm it and we run away together and leave you and your old album behind.  And he's my Ticket to Ride...(she kisses the picture of John on the lips and gets up) Sick, gotta stop fallin' in love with pictures.
 

The Day They Shot John Lennon By James McLure

• This one act play premiered  fro January 19-February 6, 1983 by the McCarter Theater Company at Princeton University.  The play focuses on how a group of people reacted to Lennon's death.  The setting is December 9, 1980 at the corner of 72nd and Central Park West as nine people watch the crowd which formed across the street from the Dakota in the first hours after the shooting.  There are three teenagers, two 60's teenagers now working in the business world, two Vietnam vets who have become pushers and pickpockets, a black dude complete with baret and big box radio and an old Jewish man from the neighborhood who is unaware of what has happened.   Each person tells his/her story about where they were when they heard the news that Lennon was shot and their reaction to it.  <This information was taken from the February/March 1983 issue of Beatlefan magazine>

• Alright, I am not sure exactly what this play has to do with the Beatles, but it does have a Beatles reference in the Title.

Books

Love Story by Erich Segal
(this reference is very similar to the movie reference by the same name)
What can you say about a 25 year old girl who died?  That she was beautiful and brilliant.  That she loved Mozart and Bach.  And the Beatles.  And me.  Once, when she specifically lumped me with those musical types, I asked her what the order was, and she replied,  smiling, "Alphabetical."  At the time I smiled too.  But now I sit and wonder whether she was listing me by my first name-in which case I would trail Mozart-or by my last name, in which case I would edge in there between Bach and the Beatles.  Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers the hell out of me.

Other

Ty Beanie Babies have released a raccoon named Ringo and a walrus named Paul (which HAS to be a direct reference to "Glass Onion")
 

This is from the Animaniacs comic #31 "101 Darnations"  I think the Beatle reference on this one speaks for itself.  <Found on the Wakko Warners Animaniacs/Beatles page>
 

As you see, I really need help with the plays and books.  I also want to ad tv commercial that use Beatles songs on this page, although I haven't gotten started compiling that list quite yet.  The only guidelines I have for the books is please no Rock and Roll biographies.  The Beatles are mentioned in almost every one that I have read, and it is too many.  Try to stick with Fiction (not true) books please.  Thanks so much Beatlefans everywhere for your interest and help.

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