:08:00
He was rough, ready...
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and not my type at all. To start off with.
:08:07
But again, this enigmatic character...
:08:10
you couldn't resist.
:08:13
He was like a Teddy boy.
He walked around without his glasses...
:08:17
a guitar over his shoulder...
:08:20
and a look that said, "Kill."
:08:26
Paul met me the first day I did
Be Bop a Lula live onstage.
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A mutual friend brought him to see
my group, called The Quarry Men.
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And we met and we talked after the show.
:08:37
And I saw he had talent.
He was playing guitar backstage...
:08:40
doing Twenty-Flight Rock,
by Eddie Cochran.
:08:42
And I turned around to him right
then on first meeting and said:
:08:45
"Do you want to join the group?"
And I think he said "yes" the next day.
:08:49
Now George came through Paul...
:08:51
but the person I actually picked
as my partner was Paul.
:09:01
Hamburg? That city of sin?
:09:03
No, certainly not. You can't go there.
:09:06
He said, "Oh, come on, Mimi.
We'll get 100 pounds a week. "
:09:11
So in the end, he went.
:09:15
I can remember the time
when one drunken Kraut...
:09:18
tried to get onstage
and John Lennon was eating onstage...
:09:22
and he threw his knife at him.
:09:24
And then, not deterring the fellow...
:09:27
he promptly kicked him in the face
to boot him off the stage.
:09:30
And so you had this town
full of gangsters...
:09:33
who used to love the Beatles...
:09:35
and used to send them
crates of ale onstage.
:09:38
And they'd be legless.
Absolutely legless onstage.
:09:48
Everywhere they played,
they would finish up in a fight.
:09:52
In actual fact,
one place that I sent them to play...
:09:55
they used to have to hide
behind the piano...
:09:58
because the popular thing was
to throw the chairs at the group.