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Left: Larry Lawson (as Ringo) won $15
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Right: A holiday greeting card from
the Beatles to their fans, 1964

important that they
entered into two family events. Their
song “And I Love Her” played as she and
husband, Mark, shared the first dance at
their wedding six years ago. A concert
remembrance was part of the eulogy at
her dad’s funeral one year ago.
“I was 11 years old when I saw
the Beatles at Olympia,” says Diem, a
Shaarey Zedek member who practiced
piano by playing Beatles songs. “My
dad, Thomas Nessel, was a Beatles fan
himself, and he surprised my younger
sister and me with tickets to their per-
formance.
“The packed crowd was hysterical,
and a young woman behind us passed
out. My sister had to sit on my dad’s
shoulders to see the stage. I mentioned
this performance in my father’s eulogy
to explain just how he thought of every-
thing to make our childhood so sweet
and exceptional.
“The Beatles remain my favorite musi-
cal group because of their energy and
freshness. I believe they have held the
pulse of what makes us human.”
Andi Benderoff
Sklar, a wellness
counselor living in
West Bloomfield,
danced to “In My
Life” with her son,
Brent Wayburn, at
his wedding. She
remembers going
Andi Sklar
to Beatles’ concerts
with her late mother,
Beverly Benderoff, also a fan, and two
best friends.
“My grandfather had a connection to
Olympia so he could get tickets,” Sklar
recalls. “Because of all the screaming
girls, I couldn’t hear the music at the first
concert even though we were in the fifth
row. At the second, I still couldn’t hear,
but we could take pictures. Wendy Spira,
who now lives in Nashville, holds on to
those pictures.”
Larry Lawson, a retired radiologist
with a side career as an entertainer
working on radio with Dick Purtan and

for Mitch Albom, has been the emcee
for a Beatles tribute concert at Freedom
Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights.
He took note of the audience enthusiasm
when the band joined him onstage.
“I always loved the
music and went to the
Olympia concert in
1964,” he says. “Kids
threw jelly beans on
the stage because
they knew the Beatles
liked them.”
“While My Guitar
Larry Lawson
Gently Weeps” is
Lawson’s favorite
Beatles song because
of the tone of George Harrison, his favor-
ite Beatle. Another Beatle, Ringo Starr,
helped win him $15 in a radio station-
sponsored lookalike contest, where his
looks most resembled the famous drum-
mer.
“I took my younger sister, Minde,
to the concert,” says Lawson of West
Bloomfield. “She still talks about it.”
Cheryl Katz
Weiss, a resident of
Farmington Hills and
director of education
for the Jewish Hospice
and Chaplaincy
Network, thought
being a Beatles fan
made her like every-
Cheryl Weiss
one else. At the 1966
concert, she screamed
along with the rest of the crowd.
“Karen Katz is my sister-in-law, and
when I got to know her, she told me
about meeting the Beatles,” Weiss recalls.
“I couldn’t get enough of the story. I
know every word to every Beatles song.
As I watch the two surviving Beatles in
later years, there’s such a fascination in
seeing where life has taken them.”

*

The Beatles will be celebrated 7:45-11 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek
in Southfield. $36 until Nov. 30; $40 afterward. For
tickets, contact Tobye Bello at (248) 357-5544 or
tbello@shaareyzedek.org.

