A few days ago Paul McCartney, with a great publicity stunt, decided to respond to a message from a fan who in 1964, interviewed by CBS, had sworn eternal love to the Beatles: «I love the Beatles and I will love them forever. Even when I'm 105 and an old grandmother, I will love them. Paul McCartney, if you're listening, Adrienne from Brooklyn loves you with all her heart.”
Sixty years later, and for the promotion of his exhibition Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the musician finally responded to the fan: «Hey Adrienne, I'm Paul. Listen, I saw your video, I'm in Brooklyn, I'm in New York, I'm finally here. We have an exhibition, a photography exhibition. Come and see it.”
All nice, all very nice, if it weren't for the ending proposed by Rolling Stone US. According to what was reported by the American magazine, in fact, the identity of the fan could be Adrienne D'Onofrio, who died of lymphoma in 1992 at the age of 41.
Adrienne's daughter Nicole recognized her mother after seeing McCartney's video on Tik Tok. «She looks like her and talks like her. So we thought, 'Oh my God, our mom is Adrienne from Brooklyn,'” Nicole's brother John said after seeing the clip.
Adrienne D'Onofrio, daughter of a Swedish father and an Italian mother, was the mother of 4 children. «She told me she had taken a train to go and see them» John still remembers speaking. In the CBS clip Adrienne would therefore have been 13 years old. According to her children, most of the family members who were alive in 1964 are now dead, making further confirmation difficult.
“I feel a little sad to give this news,” explained Mike, Nicole's husband, referring to his responses to the Tik Tok audience. «Whether people believe it or not, she passed away many years ago. And people seem really disappointed by that.”
