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We thought of ourselves as Lennon and McCartney from very early on. It was because we’d heard of Gilbert and Sullivan, Rodgers and Hammerstein. Lennon and McCartney? That’s good. There are two of us, and we can fall into that pattern. We put our names next to each other in our school exercise books.

"Now I can look back on it and think “God, what a lovely guy, how privileged was I to run into him in Liverpool”. And I think we’ve both felt the same about each other. Just really quite chance meeting. It was through a mate of mine that I met John. But it was by chance. It was no setup. We didn’t go to the same school, but I went to the same school as the guy who introduced us. So thinking back on it, I do think “Oh, God, we’re very lucky”. I was thinking the other day, I wish I just sat and hugged him all the time we were together. But as you know, Adam, that probably would be slightly out of line. But it’s the kind of thing you think, you know, what about that? But guys didn’t do that kind of thing where I’m from." -Paul (Adam Buxton podcast, 2020)

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"One time Paul had a chick in bed and John came in and got a pair of scissors and cut all her clothes into pieces and then wrecked the wardrobe. He got like that occasionally; it was because of the pills and being up too long."