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Beatles fans receive response to fan tape from Paul McCartney 50 years later

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When two young Beatles fans, swooning over the pop stars they'd seen in concert, recorded a tape to the band, they said they would "live in hope" for a response. And 50 years later, they've finally received one.

BBC News reported Barbara Bezant and Lyn Phillips had cued up their reel-to-reel tape recorder in December of 1963, when they were 17 and 19, and recorded a message they would mail to the venue for an upcoming Beatles concert, the Finsbury Park Astoria.

"This dream is just to come round the back and see you, but I don't suppose that'll ever happen. But we can always live in hope, can't we?" the teens said during the 15-minute tape, according to the BBC.

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Bezant and Phillips told Express the tape was full of funny stories and silly jokes from the Goon Show.

Now, 50 years later, the goofy tape has reunited the two women and caught the attention of Paul McCartney. BBC reported the tape had surfaced after a local historian bought it at a flea market, listened to it and sent it to the the broadcaster's The One Show.

The sh0w found the two women, who had lost touch with each other, and reunited them on television, where they also received a letter from Paul McCartney, according to the story.

"Hi Lyn and Barbara, thanks for your lovely tape. It finally got through - better late than never," McCartney wrote. "Great to hear that you found each other again after all these years. Keep enjoying the music. Love Paul."

It was a letter that surely would have made those young Beatles fans giggle, but now, Bezant joked to Express, it will probably get her disowned when her family hears the embarrassing tape.