There's Room At The Top They Are

The First Thing We Did Was To Proclaim Our Liverpoolness To The World, And Say 'it's All Right To Come From Liverpool And Talk Like This'. Before, Anybody From Liverpool Who Made It, Like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, Had To Lose Their Accent To Get On The Bbc.

Yoko [ono] Was Well Into Liberation Before I Met Her. She'd Had To Fight Her Way Through A Man's World - The Art World Is Completely Dominated By Men - So She Was Full Of Revolutionary Zeal When We Met.

When I Started, Rock And Roll Itself Was The Basic Revolution To People Of My Age And Situation. We Needed Something Loud And Clear To Break Through All The Unfeeling And Repression That Had Been Coming Down On Us Kids.

New York Is What Paris Was In The Twenties. . . The Center Of The Art World. And We Want To Be In The Center. It's The Greatest Place On Earth. . . I've Got A Lot Of Friends Here And I Even Brought My Own Cash.

Life Happens Whilst You're Planning Other Things.