Paul McCartney

“We sat in there one evening, just beavering away while my dad was watching TV and smoking his Players cigarettes, and we wrote ‘She Loves You’. We actually finished it there because we’d started it in a hotel room. We went into the living room – ‘Dad, listen to this. What do you think?” So we played it to my dad and he said, ‘That’s very nice, son, but there’s enough of these Americanisms around. Couldn’t you sing, “She loves you. Yes! Yes! Yes!”‘ At which point we collapsed in a heap and said, ‘No, Dad, you don’t quite get it!’ That’s my classic story about my dad. For a working-class guy that was rather a middle-class thing to say, really. But he was like that.” Paul McCartney – Barry Miles (Many Years From Now)

George Harrison

George Harrison was two and a half years younger than John Lennon. He met Paul on a school bus, and the two bonded over music and playing guitar. John was not so sure. George joined ‘The Quarrymen’ aged 15 after Paul found he was too nervous to handle guitar solos onstage – so George got the gig and the rest is history.