The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her