“Dot Rhone, who had rented the basement flat below John and Cynthia, recalls being invited upstairs one night in early October and being asked by John to phone Radio Luxembourg to request ‘Love Me Do’. Dot didn’t mind doing the favor. John had shown enormous sympathy following her breakup with Paul, going so far as to give her the rent sometimes when she was short. There was no problem getting a deejay on the phone, nor responding that it was ‘fantastic’ when he asked her personal opinion of the song. But her heart skipped when, out of the blue, the deejay confessed he ‘wasn’t at all that thrilled with it’. It startled Dot, and it must of have shown on her face, because as soon as she hung up, John sneered: ‘He didn’t like it, did he?’”
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
