When I see him on TV nowadays, I think he's basically an older, wiser version of his young self. He was always polite to me, but "we" were a clique within the extended group (Paul & I, John & Yoko) and Ringo was sort of the outsider. In the studio he rarely spoke or chatted between takes. it's not fun." I made a very vague reference to that incident in "Body Count". RINGO: My heart went out to him (Ringo Starr) the night he came over to Paul's house (with his now deceased first wife Maureen, aka "Mo") and told Paul "I don't want to drum any more. Beatles associate Tony Barrow believed that Paul “used her” to break up with Jane. McCartney apparently made her leave several times before the final split between the two. ![]() A bit later on she came storming out again and drove away.” One of the fans who used to hang around McCartney’s house at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St Johns Wood, London, says that “…Paul brought this American girl home……another car turned into Cavendish Avenue - it was Jane. According to most accounts, Asher returned to find them in bed together. Schwartz says they had nicknames for one another: he was “Mr. While Jane Asher was away on holiday, Schwartz lived with McCartney. McCartney gave her a job working for Derek Taylor, Apple Corps’ Public Relations manager, writing press releases for various Apple Corps artists including James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, Badfinger and Jackie Lomax. A relationship developed and he later invited her to move in with him at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St John’s Wood, where he was living at the time. McCartney was standing there in conversation with some business contacts. This was prior to Apple Corps’ move to Savile Row later in 1968. She came to London on 3 April 1968 and, a few days later, walked into the reception room of their first office at 95 Wigmore Street. She met the Beatles at a critical point in their development, when they were making the White Album. Intrigued by the Beatles‘ formation of the Apple Corps, which she had read about in the American magazine Rolling Stone, she went to London at the age of 23 to see if one of her scripts was of interest to what she regarded as the “non-establishment“. In 1972 Schwartz wrote an account of these events in her “early autobiography”, Body Count. At the time McCartney was engaged to the actress Jane Asher, who broke off the engagement after she found them in bed together. ![]() She was present at the creation (and, in a few cases, contributed) to tracks that later ended up on "The White Album."įrancie Schwartz (born 1944) is an American scriptwriter and the former girlfriend, during the late 1960s, of Paul McCartney, who referred to her as “Franny”. The author of "Body Count" talks about life with John, Yoko, Ringo, George and PaulĪlthough "Body Count" (a very rare book) has a sexy reputation, there's a lot more to Francie Schwartz's story.
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