BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A brick from the Cavern Club, a check for 11 pounds signed by Ringo Starr, an “authentic” Beatles wig. These and thousands of other objects related to the Fab Four are luring Beatles fans to a new museum in Buenos Aires.
The museum is a product of the particular Beatlemania obsession of Rodolfo Vazquez, 53, an accountant who became a fan at age 10 when he got the “Rubber Soul” album.
“With the song ‘In My Life,’ I fell in love with the Beatles,” he told The Associated Press.
Vazquez scooped up all the memorabilia he could find in Buenos Aires about history’s most famous rock band, an obsession that grew until he made it into Guinness World Records in 2001 as having the planet’s largest collection.
At that point, Guinness noted that he had 5,612 items in the attic of his home in Buenos Aires. His hoard has grown to more than 8,500 rec ords, gadgets, puppets and games since then, more than 2,200 of which are on display in the Beatle Museum that just opened this month on Avenue Corrientes.
“The idea is to show my collection permanently. In a year, I would like to rotate the items on display with others from my collection,” Vaz quez said.
