Remember fan clubs?

I was in the David Essex fan club loved him.

Oh dear, I was in the Bee Gees fan club in 1968. I got a membership card that said 'Bee Gee Bopper'. I was furious when my parents said I was too young to go to one of their performances!

I was in the Duran Duran Fan Club.
Happy days! I don't know if there are still Fan Clubs these days. If there are, they are probably all online.

I was in the Monkees fan club.

Another Beatles Fan Club member here. I'd forgotten about the bendy records we were sent, but remember Beatles Monthly magazine.

There was an afternoon event for fan club members held at Wimbledon Palais that I attended - winter of 1963 I believe. It was the first time I saw them perform, and we all queued up to shake their hands after the performance. I was all a-quiver, and managed to tell George Harrison (my favourite) that he and I shared a birthday. "Happy birthday, love" he said - I nearly fainted on the spot and swore I wouldn't wash my hand ever again.

I wasn't in the Beatles fan club, but when I started my paper round, I spent some of my money on the magazine from the paper shop. My friend's brother started a group, and we set up a fan club for him. Went to all their gigs? Some of the group went on to play in other bands. I found out he died a few years ago in his sixties. Not sure if there are still fan clubs. Those were the days.

OMG yes! I well remember being a star-struck and love-struck kid and teen being a member of various fan clubs, excitedly waiting for the postie to bring me envelopes with posters, badges etc.

Great days!

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I was a member of the 'Tingha and Tucker' club and had the badge.
Do you remember Auntie Jean?
I think I was in the Rolling Stones fan club.

Me too! I still have an Annual

IIRC I was in the Elvis one when I was about 12. My mother laughed when she found out, which was mortifying. TBH I’d have preferred a Rowdy Yates (Rawhide) fan club but I don’t think there was one.

However I went right off Clint Eastwood around the time of 9/11 - when the big ‘tough guy’ cancelled a premiere in London because he was too scared to get on a plane. At around the same time dh and I flew the other way across the pond for a memorial showing of a couple of late BiL’s documentary films.

I was a huge beatles fan from 9 years old,(still am) i thought Ringo was amazeing. I still remember watching them land at Heathrow.
Didnt really no much about Fan Clubs.
But i did join the David Cassidy Fan Club,
Saw him at White City Stadium in 1974 ,i was 19.
Sadly it was the concert that the girl got crushed to death at the front.
Saw him when i was a lot older in 2008 at wembley.
David was and still is my favorite singer.

Does anybody remember Dickie Valentine ? I got a (supposed) piece of his blue gaberdine suit, as "special" member of his fan club. Makes me cringe now, but then ... ah!

Yes I still have my Tingha & Tucker membership badge!