John and Paul also came to see [Len, while he was ill in hospital with tubercular meningitis]. “I could see a close bond had formed between them while I’d been ill. They came to see me once out of hours, not at the proper visiting time, and had to escape through a French window into the garden when the nurse arrived. They then stood outside making silly faces at me as the nurse gave me various tests. “George came to see me on his own. He was now a proper member of the group, but I didn’t really know him well. He was at my school, but a year younger. I really appreciated his visit as he seemed so understanding and caring.”
The Quarrymen, Hunter Davies (2001)
Paul McCartney and George Harrison in Manchester (November 1963)
LINDA EASTMAN at the Apple Press Conference. May 15, 1968.
Linda Eastman at the Americana Hotel in New York on behalf of Town & Country magazine covering the press conference held by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to announce the Beatles new company Apple Records. Linda famously slipped Paul her number that day.
Sometimes I get sad because I remember that the Beatles could never love me but then I remember how much they love each other and everything is okay again
“When you start with the Beatles, your résumé looks pretty good,” Chris O’Dell says. A new documentary charts the extent of that CV, as a music manager with bands including Fleetwood Mac, Genesis and Santana, but it all began with a chance encounter in Los Angeles in 1968.
Derek Taylor was heading publicity at the Beatles’ company, Apple Corps, and O’Dell was a low-level assistant in radio promotion. When Taylor suggested she come work at the Apple office in London, she dropped everything and moved halfway across the world. “Paul [McCartney] was there every day organising everything,” she says, on the phone from her home in Arizona. “One day he came into my office and said, ‘Chris, should we use paper towels or cloth towels in the bathroom?’ That’s how detailed he was.”
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1968 Paul I am obsessed with you