New book, "Ticket to Ride," tells the story of U.S. teens who ran away to England to meet the Beatles

Janice Mitchell and Martha Schendel left Cleveland for London when they were 16, hoping to meet the Fab Four. The New York Post features an excerpt from Mitchell's book, "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)." 

“We read that they hung out in Soho a lot,” said Mitchell, now 73, referring to the neighborhood in London that was the epicenter of the Swinging Sixties.

“I was the planner and it was my idea to go to England,” she added, explaining how she persuaded Schendel to come along for the ride. The duo truly believed they would meet the Fab Four on the trip. Mitchell even wrote to their manager, Brian Epstein, to ask for a job in his office.

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