The Beatles have been so surrounded by myth, fantasy and speculation that determining anything other than the basic facts
of their lives has been virtually impossible. This book is an attempt to sort out and dispel some of the inaccuracies which are passed on from biography to biography, and to give a close-focus portrait of Paul and his circle in sixties London. In the course of writing this book, Paul talked about every Lennon and McCartney composition. Paul and Johns song writing elevated the Beatles far above all other rock’n’roll bands and this book attempts to explore both that relationship and the genesis of those songs. The core of this book is based upon a series of thirty-five taped interviews with Paul conducted over a period of six years, from 1991 to 1996, as well as from information gathered in the course of many other conversations with him at events, rehearsals, concerts and get-togethers.
”The whole
meditation experience was very good and I still use the mantra. I found it very useful and still do. Meditation is great. I find it soothing and I can imagine that the more you were to get into it, the more interesting it would get.” – Paul.
“Each man has within himself a great storehouse of creative energy, peace and happiness… In order to feel the benefit of this storehouse, however, a man must have access to it; he must know that it is there, know how to reach it…” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
“My best experience of the whole time was very pleasant. I remember having a great meditation, one of the best I ever had. It was a pleasant afternoon, in the shade of these big tropical trees on the flat roof of this bungalow. It appeared to me that I was like a feather over a hot-air pipe, a warm-air pipe. I was just suspended by this hot air, which was something to do with the meditation. And it was a very blissful feeling. It took you back to childhood when you were a baby, some of the secure moments when you’ve just been fed or you were having your nap. It reminded me of those nice secure feelings. And I thought, Well that’s great, I couldn’t buy that anywhere. That was the most pleasant, the most relaxed I ever got. I really felt so light, so floating, so complete.” – Paul.
“I still meditate every day for half an hour in the morning and half an hour every evening and I think I’m a better person for it. You know, if you’re working very hard and things are a bit chaotic, you get all tensed up and screwed up inside. But if you spend a short while in the mornings and evenings
meditating, it completely relaxes you, and it’s easier to see through problems. If everyone in the world started meditating, then the world would be a much happier place.” - Ringo
“I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.” – Paul.