According to American journalist Al Aronowitz, who documented the scruffs' all-night vigils during the 1970 recording sessions for All Things Must Pass, George Harrison's first post-Beatles solo album: "In the morning they'd go off to their jobs and in the evening they'd be back outside the studio door again. Apple Corps press officer Derek Taylor recalled that unlike the groupies that bands such as the Beatles and the Byrds attracted in the United States, the scruffs' motives were innocent, as they sought merely to be supportive of their heroes. Almost all of the scruffs were young women. The Apple scruffs had a membership hierarchy, which helped ensure that newcomers refrained from screaming at the sight of one of the Beatles, and printed membership cards. Harrison's song " Apple Scruffs", from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass, is a tribute to the Apple scruffs. They built a rapport with the band members and became associated with the Beatles' history in the years before and shortly after their break-up in 1970. The scruffs carried membership cards and sought to protect the Beatles from the frenzied fan worship of Beatlemania. According to Apple press officer Derek Taylor, when The Sunday Times wrote a feature article on the company in the late 1960s, their map included a location for the scruffs, on the steps of the offices at 3 Savile Row. The Apple scruffs were a group of devoted Beatles fans who congregated outside the Apple Corps building and at the gates of Abbey Road Studios in London during the late 1960s, in the hope of seeing or interacting with one of the band members. For the George Harrison song, see Apple Scruffs (song).
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