That became a very big bond between John and me, because he lost his mum early on, too. We both had this emotional turmoil which we had to deal with and, being teenagers, we had to deal with it very quickly. We both understood that something had happened that you couldn’t talk about – but […]

I was rung one day by one of the blokes at the office, who said, “Hey, there’s a rumour started by a DJ in America that you’re dead.” I said, “You’re kidding – just tell him I’m not.” He said, “No, that won’t do. You’ve got no shoes on on the cover (of the ‘Abbey […]

On the “Pepper” stuff, I got into the more melodic bass lines. In fact, some of the best-paced bass playing I ever did was at that time.

Just to show you how wrong one can be: I was in Germany on tour just before “Revolver” came out. I started listening to the album and I got really down because I thought the whole thing was out of tune. Everyone had to reassure me that it was all okay.

It was a hot day in London, a really nice hot day… Barefoot, nice warm day, I didn’t feel like wearing shoes. So I went around to the photo session and showed me bare feet… Turns out to be some old Mafia sign of death or something.