It’s been a long and winding road, but we may have finally found “Adrienne from Brooklyn.”
The bubbly teen who professed her love for former Beatle Paul McCarthy in a famous 1964 movie clip has been revealed to be the former NYPD detective’s late mother, Staten Island mom Adrienne D’Onofrio. The Post has learned that he was identified by his family.
“I love the Beatles and I’ll always love them even when I’m 105 years old and an old grandma,” the teenager says in the now-viral video. Spoken in a Brooklyn rhythm. The title of the Fab Four is “Eight Days a Week” – Tour era. ”
“And Paul McCartney, if you’re listening, Adrian from Brooklyn loves you dearly.”
Sixty years later, McCartney has finally responded with a clip of his own, promoting a collection of rare photos from his Beatles days. exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum.
“Hello Adrian, this is Paul.” the rock legend said on TikTok. “Listen, I watched your video. I’m in Brooklyn now, I’m in New York. I’ve finally arrived here. I’ve put on an exhibition, a photo exhibition. Come and see it with me. .”
D’Onofrio is It was first identified in a report by Rolling Stone magazine. magazine.
Unfortunately she passed away in 1992, but her children – Including retired police officer John Donofrio and his sister Nicole Donofrio Panepinto. – Her adorable declaration of love for the former rock ‘n’ roll craze has become something of family lore, she said.
“I was like, ‘What! That’s my mother,'” said D’Onofrio, who saw the 1964 footage a few years ago. “She looked like her and she sounded like her. I took a screenshot of her and sent it to her sisters. ‘Is this mom?’ And they were laughing. They said, “Oh, that’s mom.”
“My mother always talked about the Beatles,” added the 56-year-old former detective. “She told us how it was outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. I remember that story vividly. She was goofing around.
“Her father died when she was nine or 10 years old, and her grandmother, who was a widow, had to work to support her mother and brother,” D’Onofrio said. “Her mother basically had little to no supervision, so it was easy for her to skip school and hang out with her friends. So there she was.”
Panepinto, 43, the youngest of Adrienne’s four children, said her family accidentally discovered the video in 2016 and that her brother urged the children to come forward with the identity of the mystery teenager. Told.
“He said, ‘We can do something with this,’ but we never did that,” she said Tuesday. “We were like, ‘Oh.’ That’s not us. It was just good for us.”
However, things changed after seeing McCartney’s overdue reply to his mother.
“At that point, I thought, ‘Wow, this is a sign. This is a sign that we are Adrian of the Brooklyn family,'” she told the Post. “It feels like a sign of something. Looking at it now, it’s a sign from her saying, ‘I’m still with you guys.’
“That’s how I feel. The truth is, she passed away in 1992 and I have four beautiful children, so they are connected to her through this story.”
McCartney, 81, is one of the most iconic figures in rock music, having been one of the Beatles’ best songwriters, and went on to form the band Wings, amassing a catalog of solo songs over the years.
Asked about the belated invitation to McCartney’s photo exhibition, Adrian’s children said their mother would have been very happy to hear back from their beloved Beatle.
“My mom would love it,” Panepinto said. “He hasn’t reached out his hand. Will he? Who knows? It’s like magic.”
