Bootleg Beatles interview

He’s met Paul McCartney a couple of times and spent a happy two hours at a party with George Harrison once, but still his voice falters when I ask if he ever saw the Beatles in action during his childhood in Liverpool. “I could have seen them but I didn’t. I was living with my parents. I wouldn’t have gone on my own but I could have seen them at the Liverpool Empire. But my parents . . . I was up in boarding school when they were playing one time. So I didn’t actually see them live. I would absolutely love to have seen them.” His girlfriend, however did see The Beatles. “She saw them in Denmark. She’s Danish and she saw them when she was very, very young, 12 I think. But she said it was all screaming. She wanted everybody to shut up, she couldn’t hear the songs.” [read more]