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“When we sang together,” Lennon told Mintz in one of their conversations, “Paul and I would share the same microphone. I’d be close enough to kiss him. Back then, I didn’t wear me specs onstage – Brian Epstein said they made me look old. So we’d be playing these concerts, in front of thousands of people, but the only thing I could see was Paul’s face. He was always there next to me – I could always feel his presence. It’s what I remember most about those concerts.”

John was a great jumper-off of cliffs. I often remember him saying, ‘Look, you’ve come to a cliff. Why don’t you jump off it?’ I would say, ‘You would probably get dead, John.’ He was always coming up with hare-brained schemes, and so I developed a defence against them: ‘I’ll tell you what, you do it first and give us a shout. If it’s OK, I’m jumping. If I hear nothing, I’m staying here.’ He came up to me once at a dinner and said, ‘Have you ever thought about trepanning? It’s an ancient Roman thing – you have a hole drilled in your skull.’ And we talked about it a lot, as you did in the Sixties. I said, ‘No, not really.’ He said, ‘I think we should all have it done.’ I was still saying, ‘I don’t know about that. You have it done, and if it’s fine we’ll all have it done as well.’ That was the only way to get rid of John’s madcap schemes, otherwise he would have had us all with holes in our heads the next morning.

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