Jane Asher and Paul McCartney...

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I SAW HER STANDING THERE
THE ASHER FAMILY
AND I LOVE HER
YESTERDAY
YOU WON'T SEE ME
FOR NO ONE
LINDA
SUMMER OF LOVE
MAHARISHI
THE FOOL
INDIA
THE BREAK-UP
HONEY PIE
LET IT BE
MANY YEARS FROM NOW
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WHAT YOU'RE DOING?

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By probandousers

In June 1964, Paul went on tour again.

Philip Norman: The Beatles' on-the-road sexual activities were well-known to the large media contingent who travelled with them, at close quarters that today seem extraordinary. But no newspaper or TV reporter would have dreanmed of dishing the dirt on the sacred Fab Four, any more than of delving into their murky Hamburg past. The media were as complicit in preserving the illusion as White House correspondents during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The same rule also held good when, as inevitably happened, figures from their past began to pop up, seeking a share of their supposedly unlimited wealth either for having contributed to their success or suffered wrongs at their hands. In this second category, the most potentially ruinous were from the ranks for young women they'd carelessly had sex with when they were nobodies.

Two of the earliest such claims involved Paul, threatening to unravel all the positive PR he had worked so hard to create. They came at the worst possible moment, both at the start of his idyllic relationship with Jane and the apogee of the Beatles triumph as ambassadors for Britain and Liverpool. The first was by a former Reeperbahn club waitress named Erika Hubers, who'd allegedly dated Paul throughout the Beatles' intermittent spells in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962. In January 1964, she came forward, claiming he was the father of her 14-month-old daughter, Bettina. The story reached the London Daily Mail early in February, during the band's all-conquering first trip to America. The Mail's New York bureau chief, David English, joined their media-packed train journey to Washington DC and, in a quiet moment, put the allegation to Paul. No clarification was forthcoming, however, and the Mail decided not to risk running the story.

The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, premiered at the London Pavilion on 6 July 1964. The premiere was attended by the Beatles and their wives and girlfriends, as well as a number of important guests, including Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. Nearby Piccadilly Circus was closed to traffic as 12,000 fans crowded in to see the group. It was a charity event held in support of the Variety Club Heart Fund and the Docklands Settlements, and the most expensive tickets cost 15 guineas (£15.75). Four days after the world premiere of A Hard Day's Night in London, the Beatles arrived in Liverpool for the first screening in the north of England.

The only unfortunate incident was due to the uncle of a girl named Anita Cochrane, who placed thirty thousand leaflets in Liverpool, telling the story of his niece's love affair with Paul and its aftermath.

Howard Sounes: Just months after a Mail reporter confronted Paul with the story of a German barmaid who claimed to have borne his child, a Liverpool man had papered Liverpool with fliers claiming Paul had got his 'niece' pregnant. The girl in question was a typist named Anita Cochrane, who claims she met Paul just prior to her 16th birthday in 1961, going to see the Beatles play the Tower Ballroom on Friday 1 December that year.

"It was my sixteenth birthday that day" Anita told the Daily Mail in 1997. (In fact, her 16th birthday was the next day, one of two factual inconsistencies in her story.) Anita claims she and Paul went to bed that night, and that she slept with him twice more over the ensuing 16 months. "We used to go back to John Lennon's flat in Gambier Terrace..." she told the Mail. (Here is the second problem with Anita's story: John didn't live at Gambier Terrace at this stage.) When Anita found herself pregnant, in the summer of 1963, she decided that Paul had to be the father and told her family as much. "When my mum and grandmother found out I was pregnant, I thought ld write to Paul and tell him what had happened. I was that sure the baby was his." When Anita didn't receive a reply, her mother Violet went to see Jim McCartney, who said his Paul didn't know her Anita. On 10 February 1964, Anita gave birth at Billinge Hospital, Merseyside, to a boy named Philip Paul. No father's name was entered on the birth certificate. Anita's family then took her to a lawyer, who contacted NEMS.

In truth neither Paul nor Brian Epstein had the slightest idea whether this typist, or the German barmaid, had a genuine claim. The boys had been such libertines, especially in Hamburg, that it wouldn't have been surprising if they had fathered some illegitimate children. While Paul did not, and never would, accept the paternity claims of the barmaid or the typist, the decision was made to pay off any such claimants for the sake of expedierncy. 'Brian Epstein, on behalf of the Beatles, took the stance that, unless they were talking vast sums, it was better to buy off people who were threatening to expose small things about the Beatles, and that included paternity [claims],' explains Tony Barrow.

I think Brian was particularly sensitive about sex, because of his own sexuality, and at all costs wanted to avoid intrusion upon his Own private life, because what he was at the time was not just gay, but doing illegal things.And I think he realised that anything about him would brush off on the boys... The policy was pay 'em off, get rid of them, move on.

Anita Cochrane claims to have been offered two pounds ten shillings ($3.82) a week by NEMS: The solicitor put in a request for more money and we got this offer of a one-off payment of £5,000 ($7,650). That was more than a house in those days.' An agreement was drawn up, dated 23 April 1964, on the basis that Anita wouldn't go public. But her 'uncle' (actually her mother's boyfriend) took issue with what had happened and distributed leaflets around Liverpool describing Paul as a 'cad'. Epstein heard about this the morning of the Liverpool première. Leaflets had been left at the Press Club in Bold Street. They were [also] given out in Castle Street, round the Town Hall, saying Paul give a girl a baby in Waterloo, and I think it named her, recalls Anita's brother, lan, who believed the story. A poem parodying 'All My Loving' was sent to newspapers:

My name is Philip Paul Cochrane, I'm just a little boy In spite of all her lovin've got no thanks from hinm, It seems he loved my mother, just long enough to sin...

Brian Epstein asked Derek Taylor to break the news to Paul. 'He shrugged with astonishing nonchalance, said "OK" and that was that,' Taylor later wrote. The trip to Liverpool went ahead and the press - in love with the Beatles, and wary of unsubstantiated, defamatory allegations - didn't touch the story, while Anita's 'uncle' was warned by the police he could face charges if he wasn't careful. Like the German claim, however, this tale had a long way to run.

(Both accusations turned out to be false).

Christopher Sandford: Others saw the Cochrane affair as less a paternity suit than a warming sign for Jane. To them, it was the same Paul who slept with dozens of women while on tour and told those who asked what his chick thought,

"I don't care what she thinks. We're not married."

Around the Beatles in '64 gossip had it that McCartney was, in so many words, a randy sod. What struck them was how much he seemed to love the whole Asher set-up, with its heady mix of good conversation and free food, more than he loved Jane herself. Things We Said Today, a tune he wrote for her, may have sounded on the surface like yet another big, brown-eyed ballad. But to insiders it was Paul taking stock ("You say you will love me/lf I have to go') and predicting the worst. "Jane was very naive," says a friend.

Philip Norman: At the same time, he was a Beatle, adored by millions of young women, many only too willing to turn adoration into positive action. To resist the temptation to be unfaithful to Jane that daily-hourly-came his way would have needed the superhunan self-control of some medieval saint. Sex had always been pressingly on offer, whether on the Reeperbahn or outside the Cavern, when roadie Neil Aspinall and his hulking deputy, Mal Evans, would bring in willing females along with the takeaway fish and chips or chicken. After Brian arrived and the world touring began, it became part for room service. Among the Beatles' welcoming delegation at airports across America would usually be four high-priced, prepaid hookers to console them for being unable to set foot outside their hotels. Not that it ever needed to be a commercial transaction, especially not for Paul. In any room he entered, he knew he could have his pick of the most beautiful young women there. During carly Beatlemania, he would often act as a judge at bathing-beauty contests-as yet unchallenged by feminism--whose winners might then receive an extra prize along with a crown, a sash and a bouquet of roses. Pop musicians with wives or steady girlfriends observed an unwritten rule that 'sex on tour doesn't count', but for Paul it was more often a matter of keeping count. To his cousin, Mike Robbins, he once described a four-in-a-bed session in which he'd been the only male. The holiday camps where Robbins once worked used to be saturated in sex, but even he had to admit Butlin's had nothing on this.

PAUL: To tell the truth, the women at that time got sidelined. Now it would be seen as very chauvinist of us. Then it was like: "We are four miners who go down the pit. You don't need women down the pit, do you? We won't have women down the pit". A lot of what we, The Beatles, did was very much in an enclosed scene. Other people found it difficult - even John's wife, Cynthia, found it very difficult- to penetrate the screen that we had around us. As a kind of safety barrier we had a lot of in jokes, little signs, references to music, we had a common bond in that and it was very difficult for any 'outsider' to penetrate. That possibly wasn't good for relationships back then.

(Jane photographed by Paul)

Philip Norman: Jane seemed in every way his perfect partner with her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, her natural poise, charm and lack of actressy airs and graces - in short, her total dissimilarity from all his fellow Beatles' chosen consorts. Even the eternal female pickets on their doorstep, once so vocally and even physically hostile to Jane, had been won over by her unfailing niceness and tolerance. Many, indeed, now copied her clothes and grew their hair to similar shoulder-length, pressing it with a warm iron on an ironing-board before setting out on another day or night of Paul-stalking. She seemed equally at ease wherever life as a Beatle's girlfriend took her. When they visited racehorse-trainer Wilfred Lyde to buy Drake's Drum for Jim McCartney, she charmed the beefy racecourse types they met (not least by, at one point, innocently wandering into the jockeys changing-room). They stayed overnight with Lyde and his wvife, who later remembered them as the most gracious and unassuming of guests. Not until after their departure did Beatlemania break out, the Lydes' domestic staff rushing into their room and cutting their bedclothes into souvenir strips.

Chris Salewicz: The previous month Jane Asher had had her own flm open, Tbe Masque of the Red Death, in which she starred. Jane was discovering there were penalties to pay for going out with a Beatle, even from those of a similar, or higher, stellar status. On ITV's "The Celebrity Game" on June 28, she sat on a panel that included Zsa Zsa Gabor. When the panel was asked "Is it possible to fall in love at first sight?" Jane replied in the negative. "So she does not like the Beatle," purred Zsa Zsa. Jane responded with an icy glare.

(Paul and Zsa Zsa)

The same week she appeared in ITV's "Play of the Week," A Spanner in the Grassroots. The play is true to life," said Jane, "for it shows there are certain things wrong with both classes, and there is hope for the future in the intermingling of people without set ideas. But I never think of a play as anything like my real life. I don't think of myself as a certain class-this class thingummy is all so silly."


On 23 July 1964, they shared the bill for the only time in a special show at the London Palladium, entitled The Night Of A Hundred Stars, in aid of the Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council. Other celebrities, including Sir Laurence Olivier and Judy Garland, also performed. The Beatles performed in a ballet sketch in which they were suspended in mid-air. Jane and other young actresses danced the can-can.

While his bandmates moved to the outskirts of London. Paul continued to live at the Asher house.

Chris Salewicz: In London, meanwhile, it was increasingly evident that the solid foundation provided by his domestic situation at the Ashers' was advantageous for Paul. And in turn, he was able to bring financial security to the house: in April, Peter Asher, with his friend Gordon Waller, .opped the charts with "World Without Love," a song written by Paul while "'sagging off" from Liverpool Institute. Tony Barrow, the NEMS publicist, told the Daily Telegraph Colour Supplement: "Paul is now leading a very organized life. The other three don't know what they are doing. They wait for others to tell them. But Paul always knows-you ring him up and he will say, 'No, not Thursday, I am dining at eight. Not Friday, because I have got to see a man about a painting. But Saturday's okay.' It isn't that he's changed. But out of all of them, he has developed the most."

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In mid-August, the Beatles travelled to the United States for their first major tour there. Paul was at it again and some of his "romances" became public.

Peter Ames Carlin: “Paul was wild,” recalls Chris Hutchins, by then at the New Musical Express, who both wrote about and partied with the Beatles throughout the tour.

“He was lovesick for Jane, pining all across the country. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to get his rocks off wherever he could.”

Paul admitted as much in the early nineties, noting that the Beatles tours turned the musicians into “trawlers, trawling for sex, everywhere we went it was on our minds.” Just like any other twenty-twoor twenty-three-year-old male, it seems. Except these particular males were the most popular band on earth, which made the seduction fairly instantaneous. The fun began at the tour’s first stop in San Francisco, but when Hutchins foolishly mentioned this to an editor at his paper, and that guy turned it into a puckish brief on the gossip page (Hutchins recalls it as something like “Paul McCartney left his tart in San Francisco ...”), the musician responded angrily, noting the potential hurt to his beloved at home in London. “He didn’t speak to me for days afterwards,” Hutchins says.

Chris Hutchins: In one of my regular calls to Maurice (Kinn) in London, I carelessly mentioned that Paul had had a fling with a girl at the previous venue. He did me no favours by writing in the NME'S Alley Cat gossip column, How sad: Paul McCartney left his tart in San Francisco.' The atmosphere froze when McCartney and I next came face-to-face. Having had a minor role in his getting together with Jane Asher that night at my flat, I may also have made a small contribution to their subsequent break-up. We had always got on well and had spent hours during the 13-hour flight to California playing cards. Now, it appeared, I had had my last warm conversation with the Beatle I'd dubbed 'the charmer'.

Perhaps the most famous of these clandestine romances was with actress Peggy Lipton, who would tell the story years later in her autobiographical book "Breathing Out".

During that tour, Paul used marijuana for the first time.

Upon returning to London, Paul was quick to update the Asher's on his adventures.

Christopher Sandford: A few hours after the big reunion, Jane found herself sitting in the kitchen at Wimpole Street, rapt, as Paul spun tales of the road. These were both funny and dramatic, if also selective. There was a bottle of wine and music from Margaret's pile of records - Handel, Stravinsky, Cage- to fill the lulls. McCartney seemingly told his girlfriend that he'd behaved himself immaculately, and she had 'nothing to worry about'. And Jane did, by and large, buy Paul's line. Even when gossip about all the groupies and love children began to surface, says a friend, 'she thought the sun rose and set on him.' A more serious issue, by far, was Asher's blunt refusal to give up her job. Paul liked a fixed routine and his 'old lady' there to cook and clean for him. Jane wanted what she'd had since the age of twelve the chance to perform for her public. The spate of songs McCartney wrote about Asher in 1964-5 would offer a good chance to study their ups and downs. While it was admirable McCartney chose to exorcise his personal demons through work instead of wallowing in self-pity, Jane's friends could only wonder. 'She remained Paul's genial cheerleader?'.

Barry Miles: Despite her forays into the pop business, Jane saw herself primarily as an actress. Most of her friends were in the theatre and she regarded the pop business as rather frivolous in comparison. She was a hard­working actress, prepared to apply herself to most jobs she was offered. In one week in June 1964 she appeared both in ITV's Play of the Week, a serious look at the class problem in modern Britain called A Spanner in the Grassroots, and on ITV's panel show The Celebrity Game. Only the month before, her film The Masque of the Red Death had opened in London. It was all work: television, films, pop journalism or the legitimate theatre. They went to all the new plays, and Jane introduced him to her friends. The two of them quickly became a fixture of London's theatreland.

PAUL: It was a very exciting period in the theatre. I used to love to go to the National, just to see such class! I figured this must be the best anyone could see anywhere in the world. I remember seeing Colin Blakely in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock and thinking, This guy is just damn great! It was good fun because it was meeting professional people who were doing something exciting. Jane and I as a couple would start to be invited to things and it was a reciprocal thing. We'd go to dinner with other actors that Jane knew. They'd invite us, we would invite them back. A lot of socialising went on at that time. You'd build up your phone book. [...] We went to a party with Harold Pinter, when he was married to Vivien Merchant. It was great sitting around at parties discussing stuff with Harold Pinter with a few drinks inside you. I loved it. We would see Kenneth Williams and Jill Bennett. We used to see quite a lot of Arnold Wesker. You'd meet people like John Mortimer, and Penelope Mortimer when they were married. I remember one or two of Kenneth Tynan's parties; what would now look like very interesting rooms with let's say a Beatle, a playwright, a novelist, an actress, an opera singer, a ballet dancer all just cross-fertilising.

Barry Miles: Paul's involvement was not just with theatrical London. Through A Hard Day's Night producer Walter Shenson they met the American writer Larry Geldoff, who later wrote MA.S.H., as well as the horror-film actor Vincent Price, the actress Coral Browne and many of the American film people who passed through London. Jane had been in movies all her life and already knew numerous producers and directors. Paul visited John Schlesinger, who made Midnight Cowboy and Sunday, Bloody Sunday, both classic sixties movies. He met the British director John Dexter and the producer Ned Sherrin, who later made The Virgin Soldiers together. Life then was the fantasy of Swinging London at its best: intimate candle-lit dinners in the little French bistros that were just opening in Soho and Chelsea, followed by drinks at one of the new 'in' clubs: the Ad Lib, the Scotch of St James, Dolly's on Jermyn Street or Sibylla's on Swallow Street, which was 10 per cent owned by George Harrison. For glamour and showbiz he could dress up for a society party and see his picture afterwards in the gossip columns of the glossy magazines. He could go anywhere, do anything he wanted. Paul could not get enough of it. He systematically explored the city's night life, taking in the fashionable hotel bars, the cabaret clubs, the late-night gambling salons and the international nightclubs, some­times with Jane but often alone.

Philip Norman: Jane also brought out a serious side of Paul, until now suppressed by his Beatle duty to be chirpily non-committal on all subjects. It's generally forgotten that throughout those so-envied Sixties, West ern Europe lived under permanent threat of mutually-annihilating nuclear war with Soviet Russia. America's 'anti-communist' war in Vietnam was also increasingly inflaming Britain's young people, even though - unlike in American foreign invasions of the early twenty-first century - the British government firmly withheld any support. Thus, well before any talk of gurus or spiritual guides among the other Beatles, Paul and Jane sought an audience with Bertrand Russell, Britain's greatest twentieth-century philosopher and a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The nonagenarian Russell listened to their concerns, then delivered advice of great wisdom: they should enjoy every minute to the full for as long as they could.

Another place Paul and Jane used to visit together was Rembrandt, the McCartney's new home.

Geoffrey Giuliano: Purchased in July of 1964 for a respectable $8750, the five-bedroom bungalow among other things boasted its own rambling wine cellar. Intent on seeing the place made as comfortable as possible, McCartney imnmediately sunk in an additional $8000 for decorating and furnishing the place, even installing a first-class centra-heating system, something of a rarity in Britain even today. One of the great advantages of being a homeowner for McCartney was that he now had someplace relatively private to be alone with Jane. Summer afternoons were spent picnicking in the large back garden, downing a pint or two at their favorite local, or casually motoring along Cheshire's winding back roads on matching motor scooters.

In October the Beatles began recording new songs for their next album, two of which were apparently written with Jane as inspiration.

The first of these was "Every Little Thing".

Barry Miles: "Every Little Thing", Paul escribió en Wimpole Street sentado en su buhardilla solo, rasgueando su guitarra.

When I'm walking beside her
People tell me I'm lucky
Yes, I know I'm a lucky guy
I remember the first time
I was lonely without her
Can't stop thinking about her now

Every little thing she does
She does for me, yeah
And you know the things she does
She does for me, oh

When I'm with her I'm happy
Just to know that she loves me
Yes, I know that she loves me now
There is one thing I'm sure of
I will love her forever
For I know love will never die

The other song was "What You're Doing".

Wikipedia: Inspired by his often turbulent relationship with girlfriend Jane Asher, McCartney has gone on record as not liking "What You're Doing", regarding it as "a bit of filler" for the album. Neither The Beatles, nor McCartney as a solo artist, ever performed the song live.

Look what you're doing, I'm feeling blue and lonely
Would it be too much to ask you
What you're doing to me?

You got me running and there's no fun in it
Why should it be so much to ask of you
What you're doing to me?

I've been waiting here for you
Wond'ring what you're gonna do
Should you need a love that's true
It's me

Please stop your lying, you've got me crying, girl
Why should it be so much to ask of you
What you're doing to me?

Many biographers suggest that the lyrics of this song are autobiographical and reflect Paul's current relationship with Jane Asher. While there may be some truth to this, Paul himself has never confirmed it.
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From the beginning of the relationship, Jane was careful not to talk too much about Paul, despite the obvious press interest in the affair. In an article published in the February 1965 issue of 16 Magazine (on sale 25 December 1964 in the US) and in the UK's Rave Magazine, Jane did not mention Paul at all, despite the fact that the article was entitled: "Paul's love affair". Jane did not mention Paul at all, despite the article's title:

HOW PAUL CHANGED JANE'S LIFE"?

By Alan Freeman:

For Jane the cinema and the theatre are not just a lark. They are her whole life. "I've never been really satisfied with anything I've done," she said. "I don't think anybody should be. We've been acting on and off since I was five and Peter was seven. We did six or seven Robin Hood episodes on television together and in 1956 Peter was one of the boy actors of the year." I asked Jane her great ambitions. "In the theatre," she said, "to play Shakespeare. I was offered two years at Stratford, but it would have meant leaving so many things that mattered to me, friends... and everything." She didn't go deeper but I'm sure I know what she meant.

"My life is not in pop but I'm constantly surrounded by it" she said. "For one thing, people always want me to make a record. I'd only make one if I were an outstanding singer, really remarkable. But since I'm not, I don't want to do it. If I did, and the record did get anywhere, people would say it was only because I was Peter's sister. Or because..." She didn't finish it. She didn't have to. "What do you want for yourself, personally?" I asked. "The same as every other single girl, Alan. To eventually get married and have children. Nothing unusual."

Paul's father married for the second time in November 1964 to a woman named Angela Williams who had a young daughter from a previous marriage named Ruth. They both remember Jane fondly.

Geoffrey Giuliano: Although Paul and Mike would later reject both their new stepmumn and kid sister, in the beginning the family was quite close. Ruth remembers being taught to ride her bicycle by Jane Asher and racing around the front yard with both sheepdog Martha and Paul in hot pursuit. 

Philip Norman: Paul seemed thrilled with this new extension to his family, so much so that at Christmas he invited Jim to bring Angie and Ruth down to London, stay in an hotel and join him for Christmas lunch with Jane's family at 57 Wimpole Street. To Angie and Ruth, the Ashers' home was like a dream' with its enormous Christmas tree and gold-wrapped presents. Also there for the festivities were Peter and Gordon and Peter Asher's latest girlfriend Betsy Doster, a publicist for the American group Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The McCartneys were made to fel thoroughly at home, Jim getting on especially well with Jane's father, who - primed by Paul - gave him the perfect gift of an Oxford English Dictionary.

Paul and Jane also spent the New Year holidays together.

Barry Miles: December 31 - Paul, Jane, George y Patti asistieron a la fiesta de Nochevieja del productor de EMI Norman Newell en su piso de Londres.

(December 1964)

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On 4 February 1965, Paul and Jane flew to Hammamet, Tunisia, for a holiday, staying in a free villa provided by the British Embassy.

Barry Miles: It was hard for the Beatles to go anywhere without the press intruding, and this was an ideal set-up, discreet, secure, fully catered and free. The actor Peter Ustinov had stayed there and recommended it. This was the sort of thing that Peter Brown, the Mr. Fixit at Brian Epstein's office, excelled at organising. Hammamet had been an artists' centre since the 1920's when wealthy Europeans had built a number of secluded villas to which they retired with their Siamese cats and long cigarette holders to contemplate their collections of modern art. Paul Klee had stayed there. The light was wonderful; there were two exquisite beaches fronting the bay, colourful gardens and an old medina surrounded by much restored ramparts. The villa had a small amphitheatre in the garden and was designed as a showcase for British culture. At the furthest end of the house, away from most of the activity, was a magnificent bathroom with a sunken bath and decorated throughout with Islamic tiles. It was isolated and the acoustics were ideal for songwriting. Here Paul wrote "Another Girl".

The villa was almost perfect but for one thing.

PAUL: "You'd be sitting there having a cup of tea when the Russian delegation would be shown through by the government. You didn't have any control over that. "This is one of our cultural guests." "Hello, how are you?"

Ian MacDonald: As a recording, ANOTHER GIRL is distinguished by its dark shading, McCartney singing at the low end of his very wide range. Lyrically, it may be another refection on his relationship with Jane Asher, throughout which he maintained a secret flat in London for assignations with many another girl.

Chris Salewicz: Paul had never been faithful to Jane Asher. Unbeknownst to her, he maintained a bachelor apartment close to Claridge's Hotel in Mayfair; there he entertained young ladies of his fancy.

For I hove got another girl, another girl
You're making me say that I've got nobody but you
But as from today, well, I've got somebody that's new
I ain't no fool and I don't take what I don't want

For I hove got another girl, another girl
She's sweeter than all the girls and I met quite a few
Nobody in all the world can do what she can do
And so I'm telling you, "This time you'd better stop"

For I hove got another girl, another girl
Who will love me till the end
Through thick and thin she will always be my friend

I don't want to say that I've been unhappy with you
But, as from today, well, I've seen somebody that's new

On 11 February, Ringo married Maureen Cox at Caxton Hall Register Office, London; John, George and Brian Epstein attended, but Paul was still in North Africa. On 14 February, Paul and Jane returned to London from Tunisia.


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Sources: McCartney by Christopher Sandford / Beatles Bible / Fab: An Intimate Life Of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes / Many Years From Now by Barry Miles / Paul Mccartney: The Life, Philip Norman / McCartney by Chris Salewicz / Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney by Geoffrey Giuliano / Revolution In The Head: The Beatles' Records And The Sixties by Ian MacDonald /

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