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2017 EVERGREEN 113<br />
The singers pictured at the height of their fame in the mid-1960s. When they started out<br />
they were known as…Gordon and Peter.<br />
son of a leading light in the medical<br />
profession — an eminent surgeon —<br />
and he too had a couple of younger<br />
sisters: Diana and Anne.<br />
At first Peter was more of a jazz and<br />
folk music fan, but under Gordon’s<br />
influence and the inescapable<br />
nationwide boom in pop music and<br />
beat groups, he soon came to share his<br />
friend’s enthusiasm for rock and roll.<br />
This led to the boys purchasing their<br />
first guitars and sneaking out at night<br />
(a serious violation of school rules!)<br />
to earn pocket money playing in pubs<br />
and clubs.<br />
It was in 1964, after they had left<br />
school and were performing at the<br />
Pickwick Club in London, that they<br />
were spotted by a record producer<br />
who signed them to EMI. By a<br />
happy coincidence, it was around<br />
this time that Paul McCartney<br />
started dating Peter’s sister Jane<br />
and the duo were soon thrust into<br />
the exciting music scene of 1960s<br />
London.<br />
McCartney subsequently moved<br />
into the Ashers’ elegant town<br />
house in Wimpole Street, and it<br />
was at a party there that Peter and<br />
Gordon first heard Paul singing “A<br />
World Without Love”, a song the<br />
precociously talented Beatle had<br />
written when he was just 16.
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