In a promotional video, Paul McCartney invites ‘Adrienne from Brooklyn’ to his photo exhibition; the publication also shows the fan declaring herself
To announce a photography exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Paul McCartney invited a fan to watch the screening. In a video published on social media, a young woman says: “Paul McCartneyif you’re listening, Adrienne Brooklyn loves you with all his heart.” The excerpt was taken from CBS News and it’s from 1964.
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After waiting 60 years, the fan received a response. “Hey, Adrienne. Listen, it’s the Paul. I saw your video,” says the musician. “I’m in Brooklyn right now. I’m in New York. I’m finally here. We have an exhibition, a photographic exhibition. Come see.”
Fans created expectations about the identity of Adriennebut the mystery seems to have been solved and gained a relatively sad resolution. Nicole D’Onofrio told the Rolling Stone USA that her daughter was browsing TikTok when she came across the promotional video for McCartney.
“I was like, ‘Wait a second. Put it back on,'” he recalled. “When I saw it, when I heard it, I was like, ‘That’s Mom.'”
“She looked like her and sounded like her, with that thick Brooklyn accent,” her brother added. Nicole, John. “We were like, ‘Oh, my God, Mom is the Adrienne from Brooklyn.'”
Daughter of a Swede and an Italian, Adrienne He reportedly told his children that he often skipped school to attend events in New York. The arrival of Beatles to the United States would be one of those occasions, which was even recorded by the CBS.
“I remember her saying she took the train to see them, and it was like a dime, if you had 50 cents, you could buy a 10-cent hot dog and a pack of cigarettes,” he said. John.
Adrienne gave birth to her first child, John, in 1967, when he was just 15 years old. She married the father of her four children, HarryIn the same year.
Second Nicolethe mother dedicated herself to her children her entire life: “She was the mother who helped with every science project. If she had one last dollar, it would be ours.”
In 1992, when he completed 25 years of marriage, Adrienne was diagnosed with lymphoma. “The doctor said she had stage 4 cancer, and she just gave up,” he said. John. “She didn’t even get a chance to do the radiation treatment. She called me and left me a voicemail: ‘Johnny, I’m dying’. It was terrible.”
In the same year, Adrienne He fell into a coma after contracting pneumonia and died at the age of 41. His children found several records of his Beatles in your closet. They were the only ones she played, although she also liked bands like Rolling Stonesconfessed John. On a vinyl, she would have written “Adrienne It is Paul” inside a drawn heart.
For Nicolewhich deals with stage 4 breast cancer, came across the video of Paul McCartney it was like “receiving a message from your mother saying: ‘Look, I’m here, I’m here taking care of you'”, he continued John.
“She would be ecstatic” with the news that McCartney invited him to his exhibition. “But she would have to clarify it with my father. My father would say, ‘It’s better that Sir Paul talk to me before I talk to you.'”
Harryhusband of Adriennepassed away in 2012, also as a result of cancer.
Source: Rollingstone
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