This year I am marking more than 30 years writing about TV, music and the showbiz world.
So, in Scouse Pie Blog, I will be delving back into the celebrity cupboard to share some tales and ancedotes of the stars who came into my life. Those who made an imopact and those who entered and fizzled out.

And so to the Fab One.

Meeting Macca

I recall saving up my pocket money to buy Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
It was £2 in a shop in Lodge Lane Liverpool 8.
I ran home and showed my mum who was ironing. . . mum was always ironing.
I had earlier bought Penny Lane as a single which was supposed to be on the Pepper album originally planned as a musical record of the Beatles' Liverpool childhood.
I had been many times to Penny Lane playing fields to watch Liverpool School Boys with my dad John 'Gunner' Grant, famous Docker and football lover.
I remember hearing Penny Lane on the Radio and tugging at my dad's sleeve asking why it was famous?
And where was that 'pretty nurse selling poppies on a tray?'.
Gunner smiled nd explained later in the pub when he sat me outside with a bottle of lemonade and a packet of crisps.
Anyway year later when I allegedly became an adullt I finally met Paul and told him how important that song was to me and my life.
He smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
And then my mobile went off and the ring tone was Penny Lane he laughed.

Paul has this great ability to make you feel as if YOU are the most important person in the room.
I have met him on numerous occasions since.
He remembers faces and in his world that is something extraordinary.
It was magical to see him and always is.
The Beatles changed my life.
They said love is all you need.
Quite rightly but they also pointed out that four working class lads from Liverpool could go out there and do it live a dream..
This year in July we celebaate the momentous occasion when Paul met John at Woolton Church fete on Ju6 50 years ago.
Music was never the same again.
Liverpool should be proud of their contribution especially when George came along and Richie too.
Fab indeed.

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