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John and Imitation German Champagne

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by: Norbert K - Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:43 UTC

"Paul would be doing 'What'd I Say' for an hour and a half and we'd all be drunk. All these gangsters would come in, you know, like the local Mafia, and they'd send a crate of champagne onstage. It was fake champagne and we had to drink it or they'd kill us, you know. They'd say, 'Drink it, then do "What'd I Say."' So then, they'd get us pissed, and we'd have to do this show for them, whatever time of night they came in. If they came in at five in the morning and we had been playing seven hours, they'd give us a crate of champagne and we had to carry on. Then we'd get pills from the waiters to keep us awake an to stop s from being drunk as well."

-- John, quoted in The Beatles Off the Record, by Keith Badman

The pills we Preludin ("Prellies"). I don't know what the champagne brand was, but I remember another quote from John in which he described it as "really shit champagne."

What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -- John Lubbock

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John and Imitation German Champagne	Norbert K