* I Secured Them... A Beatle Drink Even Then *
(Brian Epstein reading an extract from his autobiography
"A cellarful Of Noise". He intended to record enough
material for an album but the sessions were not completed.)
"I secured them an audition at Decca on new years day 1962.
They came to London and stayed at the Royal hotel paying 27 Shillings a night for bed and breakfast.
They were poor and I wasn't rich but we all celebrated with Rum, Scotch and Coke which was becoming a Beatle drink even then."