Comments: In the summer of 1967, two young girls from New York visited London and set out to meet the Beatles. One afternoon - possibly July 31st - they lucked out. Both Paul McCartney and George Harrison were not only at home and open to a visit, but allowed the girls to run a tape. The result is unusual in that it shows McCartney and Harrison (who was also entertaining Klaus Voorman at his home) in a more casual mood than is typically heard on recordings of press conferences and formal interviews. Liner notes "borrowed" from Jennifer DeBernardis: ---------- --------- In July of 1967, two teenagers from the United States, Leslie Samuels and Donna Starr, convinced their parents to send them to Oxford for a summer course on Britain Today. Leslie and Donna had other plans, however, and after spending one morning (maybe) in class, they headed for London the next morning and wound up on Paul's doorstep. Leslie is burdened down with pictures from her friends, what seem to be millions of gifts for the Beatles, and most importantly for us all these years later, a tape recorder. She has pictures of the Beatles that her many friends and pen pals back in the States want autographed. One has a note attached, "Here is my fav pic of George. Please ask him to sign it or breathe on it, whatever...." Paul and George both read the inscription and Leslie, not knowing that she will later meet George, has Paul sign it first. Leslie also has gifts for them, some of which are sort of Pepper related buttons that say "All you need is love" or something like that. Apparently she had sent some by mail and they wore them and she got a photographer to send her the pictures with "youse all wearing them." (Apparently she's from Brooklyn?) Anyway, she must have tons of stuff because the tape sounds like the microphone is bouncing off of a kitchen's worth of pots and pans and she's continually pulling stuff out to ask them about or show them. "Were George and John at Monterey?"; "Did you get the thing from Al Brodax?"; she has some article from International Times she asks both Paul and George about; "You're deep!" In chatting with Paul, she asks him lots of questions about the meaning of Sgt. Pepper, the inspiration for "She's Leaving Home", the difference between the Parlophone recordings vs. the Capitol recordings and where to find Radio Caroline on the dial. Jane Asher, "the local farm maid", serves them lemonade, Leslie has Paul say hello to about 100 of her friends by name, and Paul introduces her to his cat's new kittens. Leslie has a recording that she has just picked up in Paris, after hearing Murray the K insist that Lord Sitar is George using an alias. She asks Paul about it, and he says, no, he doesn't think it's George. She later asks George himself, and he says, "Oh, it's sitar. No, that's not me." Leslie says, "It's not very good and you wouldn't do that," to which George mimics, "I wouldn't DO that." From Paul's house, they head to George's house, and find George at home with Klaus Voorman, and George graciously entertains them as well, even recognizing Leslie's name, apparently from the enormous amount of mail she sends him. "Please, stop sending so much paper, there's only so much the dustbin can handle!" When asked, George tells them about his new song, a rocker, "It's All Too Much" and they chat about his passion for the sitar, why he hasn't quit smoking, ("I was off it for a while and now I'm back on again.") and the new paint job on his house. She kept her wits and she must have had a list of questions for them a mile long. No music, just a curiousity piece, but very interesting to hear how accessible Paul and George were to these two girls that just wandered by on a summer's day.