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  • My Ticket to Ride

  • How I Ran Away to England to Meet the Beatles and Got Rock and Roll Banned in Cleveland (A True Story from 1964)
  • By: Janice Mitchell
  • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
  • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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My Ticket to Ride

By: Janice Mitchell
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
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A true-adventure, coming-of-age tale set in the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania.

It's 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love...with The Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four.

On their own for the first time - in "Beatleland" - they explore a new city, a new culture, and a new life, visiting the hippest clubs of Soho, meeting some nice English boys, and hitchhiking to Liverpool. But unbeknownst to them, the runaways have become international news - and a hunt is on.

Adventure and newfound freedom end abruptly when Janice is apprehended by London police and hauled home to Cleveland and an unforgiving juvenile justice system. Warned by responsible adults to put it all behind her, she doesn't speak of her extraordinary adventure for more than 50 years.

In this memoir, she looks back with fresh insight on the heady early days of Beatlemania and an era in America when young women exercising some control over their lives presented a serious threat to adult society.

©2021 Janice Mitchell (P)2021 Tantor
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A must for Beatles fans

How great to here about the group that changed the world from a unique angle. Charming and interesting

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Any Beatle fan would appreciate this

Im a Clevelander and really enjoyed this book. A few people she mentioned i have personally encountered during my young adulthood.
I admire her determination and her journey to success while overcoming a tramatic childhood. Very inspirational. Thank you for sharing Janice.

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