When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.