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“I was being mobbed on the street, and every family had a calendar with my face on it,” she says of the film’s reception in China when she was just 18.

But they were more excited to be out on the town without being mobbed.

"I remember going down to a gathering of all the Women's Institutes in Cornwall,” June recalled, “and I was mobbed. It was quite frightening."

Across the Bay Bridge at John’s Grill in downtown San Francisco, streets were closed off and already mobbed by early afternoon with election day celebrants crowding in for the restaurant’s traditional election day lunch.

After performing for thousands of fans, he said, the band often would be confined to their hotel rooms, lest they be mobbed on the streets.