When John Lennon Met Paul McCartney

"The famous meeting with Lennon and McCartney was 6 July and, a couple of weeks after that, I remember practicing at [John's] Aunt Mimi's [house] and it was the only time I ever remember being there," he recalled. "I turned up at Mimi's and there was this guy there, who I didn't know. So I said to John, 'Who's this, John?' And he said, 'That's Paul; he's come to listen to us practice.' By then obviously they'd offered him the banjo player slot; so if I hadn't been such a rubbish banjo player, Paul McCartney wouldn't have got in the group."