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“ Paul McCartney was a bit of a schmoozer,” Davis continues. The only other person whose mind worked at that warp speed was Robin Williams.
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“John, at the time, was the funniest and the wickedest,” he reveals. The writer describes John Lennon as a cheater at Monopoly and a very bad poker player, which enabled some members of their small press entourage to subsidize the cost of traveling with the group.
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Their shared working-class backgrounds helped establish empathy between Davis and the boys, as did similarly sour, dark senses of humor. They had to talk to somebody, and I was around.” Although I could get out, they were prisoners in the hotels and they didn’t have anybody to talk to.
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“But as they got used to me, they became a lot friendlier and we kind of became companions in arms. They sort of grunted, were watching television - George told me that what they liked about America was color television because they’d never had it in England - and ordered room service. They couldn’t have given a flying (expletive) who I was, and also they were monstrously jet-lagged. “To be honest with you, it was kind of lukewarm. “I managed to get myself into there, and Derek Taylor, their press guy, introduced me to all the Beatles. “I went to the San Francisco Hilton and it was a madhouse there - all of these screaming girls,” Davis, now 76, describes from his Ventura home. One of the few journalists who accompanied the Fab Four on that entire tour, Davis attended every concert (though like everybody else, he didn’t hear much music over the constant screaming of the band’s female fans), flew with the lads on their chartered plane, escaped like them within an inch of his life after the shows and stayed in the same besieged hotels.Īlong the way he got to know John, Paul, George and Ringo intimately - although the introduction before that first Cow Palace concert left a little to be desired. Half a century later, Davis has written a book, “The Beatles and Me on Tour,” filled with anecdotes and observations about that crazy summer of ’64 and more. But he’s not going to write it, you’re going to write it.’ ”Įast London native Davis had recently become the newspaper’s one-man Hollywood bureau, and he had just been assigned to go with t he Beatles on their first North American tour. Write about them, travel with them, eat with them, drink with them - and George Harrison is writing a column for us. “ ‘Get on a plane in two hours and go to San Francisco. “The editor of the Daily Express said ‘Hey, this Liverpool group is coming over,’ ” Davis recalls. It was a little more than 50 years ago when Ivor Davis got a call from London.
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