Thursday, May 1, 2014

Widening our Paul's Still-Public Presence to August, 1966

I was reading Piet Schreuder's (et al) 1994 book, The Beatles' London:  A Guide To 467 Beatles Sites In And Around London and I found a listing for Paul and George visiting English song-and-playwright Lionel Bart's home sometime in August, 1966.  As I said in my March post, I'm trying to track down when Paul disappeared from public view.

In the listiing, it said that soccer player Bobby Moore was also at Bart's house that night.  So I went looking for a book about Moore and found he wrote one, in 1970, called England! England!.

He wrote an entire chapter on England's first World Cup win in 1966.  He was a member of the winning English team and they won in England, giving a special meaning to the title and the players amongst the English.

They won the match and trophy on Saturday, July 30, 1966.

The team was treated to a special banquet in their honor the evening of July 30th.  Moore said:
          "No wives or girl-friends were invited to the banquet and as finally we took our various presents up to our rooms in the Royal Garden when the feting was over, we all then split up into our parties with our wives and others to disappear into the night here, there and everywhere to continue our various junketings."

And, later in the chapter, Moore said:
          "This last event [the World Cup] in a way, of course, helped to widen my horizon, change my social life and make it busier.  I found myself being feted and asked out here, there and everywhere, making personal appearances."

I found a 1994 book written by David Roper called Bart! The Unauthorized Life & Times Ins And Outs Ups And Downs Of Lionel Bart that states that the 1966 World Cup-winning squad had their post-match party at Bart's house.

So, since Bobby Moore was introduced to Lionel Bart's night scene on July 31, 1966 and since Moore mentioned our Paul's Revolver album song, "Here, There and Everywhere" twice in describing his widening social life, I think it's a good guess that he met our Paul some night at Lionel Bart's house in August, 1966.  But, again, no photos.


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