<B>Did Paul so much as mention that to you?</B>
He did much more than mention it. In Body Count, there's an extremely sketchy paragraph or two about the night he decided on the final remix and sort of invited everyone into this room above the giant "pit" where the brass section had been laid down under his direction. I remember J&Y were there of course, and shadowy George in back, George Martin, some others. Can't remember if Rings was there that night. I was pretty distracted, because Paul was acting like a real boyfriend right in everybody's face. He sprawled on the couch and pulled me close and put his arm around my shoulder.
<B>Did you see him composing and rewriting it at home?</B>
I saw him rewriting Jude on the piano for several WEEKS. Well I left him alone to work on it, but I could certainly hear the different versions if I wanted to. He left demo pressings at home, where I spent some time alone before J&Y came, and I played them often, comparing, listening for the magic mix. Also wondering what the song meant.
In Body Count I wrote something like: "He said he still couldn't hear it." We were very psychic with each other so I heard and felt him saying he was trying his darnedest to deliver the message to himself, sometimes in the words that quoted me directly. That didn't mean he was offering me the song as a tribute. Far from it. John and Paul and George and Ringo each pick up things in their daily lives and wanderings and stick them into songs for no reason more significant than they like the way the words fit the notes. I remember some Jamaican or Trinidadian guy was trying to sue Paul for using his trademark "Obla-di-Obla-da", and this was maybe six months before the White Album was released! The bottom line is, what you say to a Beatle may be used in a lyric, but who in their right mind would try to put words in Paul's mouth? I was only trying to help. I'm a writer now just like I was then. I came to him as a writer. Since he was the composer, I accepted that. It would have been petty if I had done otherwise. The Beatles were about giving love away as well as getting it - at least in their music as I know it.
<B>What was Paul like as a mate? How would you compare him to other men you've dated?</B>
Gemini. Need I say more?
<B>No, you don't, because I'm one as well. </B>
Seriously, I can't compare him to other men I've dated, because a) Paul and I never "dated", and b) I was attracted to Paul's mind more than his physical self. Usually it was the other way around when I was one and twenty...
<B>What were Paul's thoughts on acid (LSD)?</B>
We discussed this in a taxi after our first meeting in Wigmore Street. He said he hated the way acid made him lose control. This after he asked me if I'd ever done it. I hadn't, so I think he felt safe telling me the worst things about it, or what he hated most about it. Also it was a cool way of letting me know he was a control freak!
