a Beatle was not something he looked back on with joy. He once remarked to me that being an ex-Beatle was ‘marginally better than being an ex-Nazi’.Paul was more businesslike and very opinionated in our meetings about which records we should re-release – despite our objections – and how we should market them.
And he was pretty good at it.Ringo was the joker in the pack, forever cracking one-liners, but anxious to forge a career as a solo artist and not just be remembered as the Beatles’ drummer.One person, of course, was missing and that was my hero – John Lennon.
It was his voice, his passion and his irreverence that attracted me, but as he was living in New York, our paths never crossed, even though I was involved with his solo releases..
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