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. Will love them even when I’m 105 and an old grandma. 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 fan could be Adrienne D’Onofrio, who died of lymphoma in 1992 at the age of 41.
Adrienne’s daughter, Nicole, reportedly recognized her mother after seeing McCartney’s video on TikTok. «She looks like her and talks like her. So we thought, oh God, Adrienne from Brooklyn is our mother,” Nicole’s brother John said after seeing the clip.
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Adrienne D’Onofrio, daughter of a Swedish father and an Italian mother, was the mother of four children. «She told me she had taken a train to go and see them», John recalls. In the CBS clip, therefore, Adrienne would have been 13 years old. According to her children, most of the family members alive in 1964 are now dead, making further confirmation difficult.
“I feel a little sad to break this news,” explained Nicole’s husband Mike, referring to his responses to TikTok users. «Whether people believe it or not, she passed away many years ago. And people seem really disappointed by that.”
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