![]() He’d got himself a channel for a month just to promote that. I had a conversation with him on his channel on Absolute Radio via satellite when he put out his new Fireman record. That was the only reason why he didn’t emigrate, which was funny. The trouble was he was dyslexic: because he was so sick as a kid he never went to school and therefore he couldn’t fill out the official forms. He wanted to live in Texas and become a cowboy. He was desperately trying to go to the States. He told me he was going to emigrate when that band were demoing because they didn’t look close to a deal. Once we had a conversation about the early days of Rory Storm And The Hurricanes and how it was all about the cowboy thing in Liverpool, the C&W names, the Chet Atkins licks. He’s come back on the show several times. He has a good memory for background details he’s kind of an unpublished Beatles historian in a way. Then he cleaned up his act one day just like that and became the nicest guy in the world. I knew him before he quit drinking and y’know he could be a touchy guy. Name drop time! Ringo I’ve known off and on for many years. And he loved every minute of it, although maybe not as much as I did! A real legend. We played Farmer’s Daughter and Cherry, Cherry Coupe, real weird Beach Boys oddities. I figured he’d walk out at any time so I tried to get him off on odd things he’d done which don’t get aired anymore. He has trouble concentrating, or relating to others for long, but he was totally coherent and together when he co-hosted a two-hour show with me. Brian Wilson turned up via a mutual acquaintance and this guy told me it was the longest he’d ever spent with anyone since the 60s.īrian suffers badly from Attention Deficit Disorder, which I also do. I find them through mutual friends or just because they happen to be in town. We’ve had a few however and their contributions have always been spontaneous. In her photobook ‘Linda’s Pictures’ Linda McCartney incorporates a photo of the house where the McCartneys probably stayed, while in Benitses.When I started the Underground Garage radio show as host and programme director in 2002, I consciously decided I didn’t want to find guests and ask them to appear every week. Soon after his return from the holiday in Benitses the Beatles started going separate ways. It is unknown wether Paul, now of course Sir Paul McCartney, has ever visited the island again. Over the last years Benitses is picking up and has witnessed the opening of a new marina, new tavernas and cafes. Soon however the tourist trade set in and changed the unspoilt scene in many ways, not always for the better. Apparently Beatle John Lennon stayed there too, and Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman. Paul and Linda were not the only celebrities that discovered the traditional fishing village in the Sixties. Snapshots taken during the McCartneys’ holiday in 1969 on Corfu. The song was finally released in april 1970 on McCartney’s solo album. During their stay on Corfu’s east coast Paul seems to have completed his song ‘Every Night’, an early version of which he had performed in January 1969 during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. Half a century ago, from May 16th till June 17th 1969, Beatle Paul McCartney, his wife Linda and her daughter Heather holidayed in the village of Benitses. ![]()
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