Remember fan clubs?

My mother introduced me to the sweet teenage girls who lived nearby .
They were much older than I was and had been at work for a couple of years .
I had just hit puberty and was paralysed by shyness .
They were members of many fan clubs and I turned crimson when I asked when they went to their clubs .
They had to explain the concept to me !

I was in the Harold Hare fan club!

I was in the Adam Faith fan club briefly, 6/3d it cost for a year! Besotted, ( till David McCallum took my fancy 😀

I was in the Beatles fan club. I still have my membership card (member no. 1852). I also have the first 24 Beatles Monthly magazines.
Do you remember at Christmas they sent us all floppy records with them talking and maybe singing a bit. I wish I still had mine - they might be worth a bit.
I also went to see them at Heathrow airport that famous day they came back from their first trip to the US. My friend pauline and I got on the first bus at about 5 am.
The next day we hung around Teddington studios waiting for them to arrive to record Big Night Out. We'd been quite regulars at that show on the odd Sunday so the lovely doorman recognised us and got us seats. We were SO thrilled!

I was a little girl (maybe 7ish) when I adored Steve Hodson from Follyfoot so my mum sent off a postal order and joined his fan club for me. I was thrilled at the time. They do seem to be a thing of the past now. It's all online.

I was in the Leonard Nimoy fan club I had a huge crush on Mr Spock in Star Trek. I even went to a couple of conventions and met Dr McCoy at one of them

My first one was the Pinky and Perky club!
When I was older I was in the David Cassidy fan club and the Bay City Rollers 😊

The Rubettes. I even won one of their LPs - that's going back a bit!

I was in the Beatles fan club. Sadly my parents wouldn't let me go to see them when we were in Blackpool cos they said I was too young. The 16-year old DD of the landlady was allowed to go and I was green with envy.

Yes I remember the floppy discs too - and I got a copy of John Lennon's poems. My DM chucked out all that stuff before I left home at 19, including my autograph book. I got loads of stars in it, the last being Barbara Windsor who I met buying fags (her, not me) at a kiosk near to the Palace in Manchester. She was absolutely lovely. She took my book back to the theatre and got lots of other autographs for me, including that of Ken Dodd.

I am still in the Elvis Presley fan club

I’m embarrassed to admit that I was once in the Liberace fan club. My best friend and I weren’t interested in pop music, but everybody else was, so we compromised with Liberace, who was at least a proper pianist. It did get us a nice trip to London once, and a visit to the London Palladium, which was very exciting.

Fails, I was in the Pinky and Perky fan club as a child. I was also a huge David Cassidy fan and got tickets for his show at Hampden Glasgow for my 15th birthday. My mums cousin wangled a meet and greet with him as a surprise, never washed my cheek where he’d kissed for days😂😂

No.

And I was a member of the "Dr Kildare" fan club (gawd help me). I was only saying to my OH the other day that I really think that I really do remember a( quite glossy and professional ) fan magazine where the interviewed star Richard Chamberlain said of himself and of his co-star Raymond Massey that both of them "considered the human body inviolable... and both blanched at the sight of blood". Is this false memory syndrome ?
Why have I remembered this( if I have) when there are whole swathes of my actual life that I can't remember at all ???
Strewth.......

I was in the ABBA fan club, the Dennis the Menace fan club ( and Gnasher's fang club) and The Desparate Dan Pie Eaters club.

Adam Faith for me! Even won a very large photo of him from Valentine magazine. I've still got it, my Dad had it framed for me all those years ago

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I am still in the Elvis Presley fan club

I don't like to tell you this, but Elvis has left the building.

No, I wasn't in any fan clubs but I did see the Beatles.

I'm a member of the Brian Jones fan club (Rolling Stones)
Free to join but I bought all of the magazines

David Cassidy fan club for me! Oh I was so in love with him!

I was a fan of Billy Fury and Kenny Ball and was in their fan clubs. I got a monthly newsletter and the opportunity to buy tickets for their concerts.

I was a member of the 'Tingha and Tucker' club and had the badge.
Do you remember Auntie Jean?
I think I was in the Rolling Stones fan club.

Cateq- I was in David Cassidy fan club in his heyday when he'd just left the Partridge family- i went to the David Cassidy comeback concert in Blackpool, many years later with a newspaper group trip- we did'nt know it, but we were staying in same hotel as David, the Hilton, and he and his wife, and his manager walked in after the concert- myself & these 2 other ladies (a bit older than me i think) were sat chatting about the concert, and were surprised when they sat in the foyer too, i said "i'm going over to speak to him" but they did'nt dare- David was a lovely man, with time for his fans, we chatted a bit, & i told him my eldest daughter shared his birthday, which he seemed geniunely pleased to hear.After a few minutes we shook hands & i thanked him, gave him a little peck goodbye on the cheek. Those 2 other ladies were well envious, & wishing they had dared to go speak to him.😄

I think i was only 12 or something when i joined David's fan club.

Think I might have been in the Tufty Club.