Fran Raya

Beatles and Beacons

Once upon another time, about a million songs ago, there lived a musical group on a teenager’s bedroom wall. These persons raided her Queendom on an ordinary October day through her father’s Bakelite wireless. The song they sang was a tuneful newness and she helped it touch number seventeen in a memorable chart of yesterday, specifically 1962.

Take a trip throughout the 1960’s through the eyes and mind of Rebecca Beacon, who is just twelve years old when she becomes aware of The Beatles, at the very beginning of their burgeoning fame.

Her teenage years are exciting but also saturated with angst and harsh realities, made bearable by her musical icons, as she retreats into a world of imagination. She perceives them as beacons of light shining through the darkness, lifting her spirit, and touching her soul.

This semi-autobiographical story by Fran Raya will strike a nostalgic chord for fans of the same generation, but also for the many admirers of the band who are too young to have witnessed Beatlemania in full flow. Nothing prepared the world for their emergence.

Rebecca Beacon finds her own identity as a result of her obsession and that proves to be both inspirational and turbulent in equal measure.