For the last five years, Nikki has been living in America. She's now known as Nikki Hale and is a full grown 31 year old woman. So where is she now? This should come as no surprise but Little Nicola is no longer Little. And John hadn't brought enough underpants so my mother-in-law bought him some." In the evenings, John or Paul played piano and led everyone in sing-songs. But the Beatles were always nice and polite. "Nikki was more interested in the cameras than the Beatles!" But he also goes on to say that "My mother-in-law expected the Beatles to be strange and weird. Her father remembers it a bit differently, as might be expected. I remember Ringo played soccer with me and he bought me a little African drum. Everybody there was dressed up in Superman costumes and stuff and I felt kind of out of place. There was a party the whole family dressed up real weird as witches and wizards. I remember John Lennon asking my mother for sixpence. "I have a vivid memory of fighting with Paul McCartney on the floor of a hotel," she relates, "and playing table football with John Lennon and Ringo Starr. so, as one of the Magicians said, "back on the bus!" A little nepotism goes a long way Amy brought along her daughter, Pam Hale, Nicola's mom, and since Nicola was only four she certainly couldn't stay at home alone. She only went along because her second cousin was given the job of recruiting the passengers for the trip and the first one she picked was Nicola's grandmother, Amy Smedley. Little Nicola wasn't specifically chosen, or cast, to go on the bus. So who was the Walrus? Was it Paul? Was it John? Does it matter? Probably not, but one person was sure that it wasn't John! In the sleeve notes to "Magical Mystery Tour" John says, "I am the Walrus." "No, you're not," said Little Nicola! She sure was an obstinate young things.you couldn't even talk her into having a guess without some overt form of physical threat! But we suppose, when all was said and done, she was just a sweet little girl who would gladly have a guess and who couldn't care less who really was the Walrus. Anyhow.I think this article is from the early 1990's, so it might not be the most up to date, but still neat. Seems like there was a discussion about her in the comments recently. Anyhow, in issue #51 there is an article in the 'zine that is about the girl who played "Little Nicola" in the Magical Mystery Tour movie. Joe Pope was a great Beatles fan and had an amazing humorous side (reminds of me Greg from The Beatles photo blog at times actually). I recently won a lot Strawberry Fields Forever magazines on ebay.
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