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Our songs are good.' It was just like that. Dave then said to him in answer to his question, 'Because we are good. After about 5 minutes of talking to each other he said to us, 'I could get you a recording contract just like that,' and flicked his fingers, 'But why should I?' It was then that he proved to be a human by planting a finger up his nostril. He could have done anything at that time. We then told him our story- we were writing songs and didn't know what to do with them, could he help? Could he help? There is an understatement. We caught Paul and up we shouted to him and he turned around. We abandoned the car and went off in hot pursuit. We would follow him and tell him about our songs. Well Dave looked at me and I looked at him and we both looked at our other friend, Peter McKenna (a childhood friend of mine), and we all reached the same conclusion. The Mini stopped and out stepped Paul - let the dog out and waved to the drive - Jane Asher and he was walking the dog. Now I was holding onto the Mini, thought lights, round corners I never let it out of my sight, and then before you could say Jack Robinson we were at Hyde Park. Without a second thought we were on his tail, and there in the back of the car was a large sheepdog, but we couldn't see who was in the front seat. Then all of a sudden the gates opened and a Mini shoots out and away. So there we sat looking and taking it all in. We knew which house Paul lived in due to a large amount of girls hanging about outside. It took us about 2 minutes to find, there are not too many houses backing onto it. Well as we were driving into London we saw a sign that said 'Lords Cricket Ground,' so off we went looking for Paul's house.

There was an article in a magazine that showed pictures of stars and their houses and there was Paul's house with a lovely picture, saying it was around the corner from Lords. Purely by accident in the car on the way down the conversation got around to Paul McCartney and where he lived. We hired a car and set off for the big smoke. It was then in the summer of 1967 - early May to be exact that we decided to take a holiday in Torquay with a couple of days in London. Where do you go with your songs? Studios and four-track machines in those days were out of our league. It got to the point where we needed to move on to the next stage but we did not know what the next stage was. I spent some time at the disbanding of this band with a band called The Almost Blues, which was formed by a good friend of mine called Alan Peters, but I did not stay for long.

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We had a full brass section with keyboards, bass, two guitars and drums, and Dave and I. We then formed another band called The Big Lox Blue Band, an ambitious effort really.

The band did not last too long as Dave and I spent most of our time writing and chasing women. We played all the old classics with one or two of our original songs. We were like most of the bands at that time. We played around Liverpool at most of the big venues. He left his band and I left mine and we formed a band called Obsession. The first efforts were pretty pathetic, but we kept on going and in the end, we felt we had some acceptable offerings. We decided we should begin writing songs, which we did. He was in a band called the Maracas and I was with somebody else - whose name escapes me. I then met with Dave Rhodes in a club called the Labamba in Liverpool and we quickly became friends. I lost contact over the years with Dave Aspinall. Second to none.įrom 1960 to 1966 I played around Liverpool in various bands, me going one way and The Beatles going another. I have seen them but The Beatles were the best rock and roll band I have ever seen. Since then I have seen many bands live: The Stones, The Who, The Move, you name it. During the following years, I followed them around Liverpool at all the documented venues, learning how they could control an audience. We would go to the Casbah and watch The Beatles at their birth. My school was very close to the old Casbah in Liverpool and my best friend at school was a guy called Dave Aspinall, brother of Neil. In 1960, I began playing guitar seriously, having dabbled for a year or two.

( From this point on it is Paul Tennant speaking) It's time for Paul Tennant to tell us the story. Until now, the story of the Focal Point has not been too clear, rumors that Brian Epstein chose their name is one theory, sadly the group only recorded one single and like so many bands no more was heard. I was part of the 'Ditz' Column,' which was written by Rene van Haarlem. I read this article about the Apple Records group, Focal Point, in the Beatles Unlimited Magazine from January/February 2007 and found it to be really interesting and thought I'd share it with all of you here on MTBFR.