Let me tell vou what is known to me of the Fabulous Four, which they were not referred to then but would be. John. the leader grew up away from the others. His house was said to have a butler and vet no mother just an aunt. Paul and George two of the others attended the same school in the city and met through a mutual enjoyment of smoking. They and their friends would smoke all day and could often not be seen. Although they did not smoke as much as the French they tried. Ringo, or Ricard grew up in a house made of dust and rubble in the poor quarter known as Diggle. There are said to be playground rhymes about this place but I have not heard them. They first played all their gigs on the back of a truck. The truck was of a kind used in the world war to move ration cards from town to town. These were vears of great deprivation for the people of Liverpool and they learned to do without. One of Paul's early songs was about a ration card but no one can remember what it was called. It is said that Paul's prother found this song many vears later but thinking it was an old shopping list he tore it up and threw it away. I must also tell you about the black poppies that grew in Paul's garden. They were rumoured to have been red once but the soot blew in from the factories and made them so. The others were all envious of John's garden which was said to have red poppies. George, who did not know what a poppy was because he was vounger was known to all around the city for playing his guitar upstairs on the bus. His father, although ashamed of this practice did little to discourage it and had once punched a teacher in the face when he had told his son this would never lead to paid work. Next I shall tell vou about what happened when John met some existentialists and declared rien n'est rée/. I will continue this story when the events occur to me.
Wasn't "I Love You Alice B Toklas" a movie that would last a lunchtime?
(Version w/ #AltText because it deserves the widest audience #Fabs)
