<B>What did you find special about that time both personally and on the world stage, and how did you feel once the whole thing had ended?</B>
That was a catalytic time period in my personal life. Knowing John and Yoko, and knowing the Beatles as four people who hadn't finished college, but had done exactly what they wanted to do instead, being there made me decide I could actually be a real writer instead of an advertising copywriter, which I'd hated. J&Y made a real love, an equal partnership between man and woman seem possible for me. That's a biggie, in my life.
I arrived in London the day before Martin Luther King was killed. I got back to America the day after the police riots at the Democrat Convention in Chicago. Being insulated from the pain of these events (and Bobby Kennedy's death, too) by complete immersion in BeatleWorld, I received the shock and rage long after the events took place. I think that time in the world was incredibly intense for everyone, young or old, rich or poor, black or white. I have a sort of unusual perspective on the "Summer of 68 Turmoil" because of the Beatles. Once "the whole thing had ended" I was drained, shattered, dissolved for a while. But I came out of it once I was able to start writing "Body Count." I've had another 25 years of adventuring, now, and another memoir is on its way.
<B>I'd like to hear more about this next book...</B>
You'll be hearing about my next, THE WAR ON SEX, DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL: Life After Paul McCartney, after "Body Count" has had a chance to introduce herself to the newest generation of Beatle lovers.
<B>How did it end with Paul, and how did you gravitate away from the Beatle world?</B>
How it ended with Paul was I left him in bed one morning. He was only half awake and megacranky. I didn't gravitate away, I shot myself up into the sky direct from Cavendish Avenue, I jetted home to Newark where my parents lived in this beautiful Mies Van der Rohe tower apartment. I stared down at the snow on the railroad tracks and the husks of buildings that had burned in the riots. But which riots? I'd missed so many big ones.
<B>And what was it like being in love with a Beatle?</B>
And what was it like being in love with a Beatle? Which Beatle are we talking about?
