BEATLES fan Brian Mcintire has turned his home into a shrine to the Fab Four – yeah, yeah, yeah!Memorabilia of the band’s ’60s heyday lines the walls and floors – including a replica set of guitars, drum set and amps.
Dad-of-three Brian proudly shows off a framed card sent from America by Yoko Ono in his living room but the bulk of his collection is kept upstairs.
The band’s LPs are displayed in chronological order and hordes of DVDs and CDs fill shelves around the room.
Taxi driver Brian has a Beatles mop-top wig as well as lighters, watches, phone cases and iTunes vouchers styled with the band’s logo.
And it is a good job no-one needs to sleep in the spare room, because the single bed does a good impression of a library as it overflows with books on The Beatles.
The centrepiece of Brian’s shrine is a full band’s worth of kit complete with a drum kit and amp which cost him around £2,000.
Brian, 59, got in touch with the Chronicle after seeing our story on Chester-le- Street couple Mike and Wendy Scott who have a framed Frisbee on their wall thrown into the crowd by Paul McCartney during a Newcastle City Hall gig in 1973.
Mike and Wendy named their children Paul and Michelle after Macca and the classic song from the Rubber Soul album.
And it is a case of snap for Brian who also has children called Paul, 31, and Michelle, 38, while he was only just overruled on naming his other son Craig, 35, after his hero John Lennon.
“I saw the story and thought people might like to have a look at all my stuff,” Brian said from his home in North Shields.
Brian’s most unique piece of memorabilia is proudly displayed on his living room wall.
John’s wife Yoko Ono sent him a card along with a golden disc commemorating one million sales of the Baby, It’s You EP.
“I wrote to Paul McCartney in 2002 and asked if he had any photos or an autograph,” he said.
“Yoko One replied, he must have passed it on to her. I was over the moon when it came back, I was jumping around.
“The envelope has a New York City postmark and the card says ‘let’s meet up in 10 years’, I know she came to the Baltic but it hasn’t happened yet.
“I’ve been a fan since 1962 but I really started to collect in about 1998.
“They were the best band in the world, the music is timeless.”
Brian’s collection is often bolstered with presents from daughter Michelle at birthdays or Christmas and he admits he is fast running out of space.
“I could do with expanding – the room’s not really big enough,” he said.
“I can just come up here and look through the books, I put the film A Hard Day’s Night on and then the voices of Paul, John, George and Ringo are in the room.
“It’s very relaxing.”
