I just strung those together rather in the way that you might string together Dr Hook and the Medicine Show. There’s lot of those about, the equivalent of a dating agency now. Then, ‘Lonely Hearts Club’, that’s a good one. So I said, ‘Sergeant Pepper,’ just to vary it, ‘Sergeant Pepper, salt and pepper,’ an aural pun, not mishearing him but just playing with the words. Mal said, ‘What’s that mean? Oh, salt and pepper.’ We had a joke about that. Me and Mal often bantered words about which led to the rumour that he thought of the name Sergeant Pepper, but I think it would be much more likely that it was me saying, ‘Think of names.’ We were having our meal and they had those little packets marked ‘S’ and ‘P’. I thought we can run this philosophy through the whole album: with this alter-ego band, it won’t be us making all that sound, it won’t be the Beatles, it’ll be this other band, so we’ll be able to lose our identities in this. We could say, ‘How would somebody else sing this? He might approach it a bit more sarcastically, perhaps.’ So I had this idea of giving the Beatles alter egos simply to get a different approach then when John came up to the microphone or I did, it wouldn’t be John or Paul singing, it would be the members of this band. What would really be interesting would be to actually take on the personas of this different band. Let’s develop alter egos so we’re not having to project an image which we know. Then suddenly on the plane I got this idea. There was now more to it not only had John and I been writing, George had been writing, we’d been in films, John had written books, so it was natural that we should become artists. It was all gone, all that boy shit, all that screaming, we didn’t want any more, plus, we’d now got turned on to pot and thought of ourselves as artists rather than just performers.

We really hated that fucking four little mop-top boys approach.

It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!Available for purchase at:AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A MillionHudson BooksellersIndieBoundPowell'sTargetWalmartApple Books - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Google Play Store - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Kobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.We were fed up with being the Beatles. Readers will learn about their childhoods in Liverpool, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up.

Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was.? book.

Who Were the Beatles? by Geoff Edgers