Lizzie Bravo was a Beatles super-fan from Rio de Janeiro who was just 15 when she and a good friend convinced their parents to let them travel to London to try to meet the Beatles in person. Not quite a year later, Lizzie appeared in The Beatles song “Across the Universe.” We remember Lizzie Bravo, who died in October at the age of 70.
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