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Paul McCartney –

Lived with Girlfriend 1964 until 1968 – Jane Asher – who lived at 57 Whimpole Street, London. With her parents.

Played – Alice in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (A ‘children’s story’ that has backwards writing in it. A Walrus and a pot smoking Caterpillar in it)

Inspired –

I’m looking through you

Father

Dr Richard Asher – Who wrote in The Lancet

The Dangers of going to bed (1947) – “one of the most influential medical papers ever written”
The Seven Sins of Medicine (1949, in Lancet 1949 Aug 27;2(6574):358-60)
Myxoedematous Madness(1949)
Munchausen’s syndrome (1951, in Lancet 1951 Feb 10;1(6650):339-41)
Why are medical articles so dull(1958)
The Talking Sense trilogy:
Clinical Sense (1959) with a rueful correction in The dog in the night-time (1960)
Making Sense (1959, in Lancet, 1959, 2, 359)
Talking Sense (1959, in Lancet, 1959, 2, 417)

AND

Respectable Hypnosis(1956)

Amongst Dr Richard Asher’s students were:

Dr Jonathon Miller – Who inspired the character Jeremy Hilary Boob (Nowhere Man ) in The Yellow Submarine animated movie.

and

Dr Oliver Sacks who wrote

The Awakenings (made into a movie starring Robin Williams and Robert de Niro)

AND

Musicophilia:- Tales of Music and the Brain.

One chapter is entitled:

COME TOGETHER.

Jane Asher’s mother was Margaret Augusta Eliot She was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall school of music and drama, and her best-known student was the Beatles record producer George Martin. Eliot was an also honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2011, just before her death at age 97, she appeared in the documentary film Produced by George Martin.

Martin has said that he wasn’t impressed by the Beatles when he first heard them for Parlophone (part of EMI). He was going to reject them but when he asked them if they saw anything they didn’t like Harrison said ‘Well I don’t like your tie for a start’ . It made Martin laugh and it wasn’t their music that made him take them on it was their cheekiness. He didn’t like the drummer Pete Best because he was too serious. Parlophone had previously made its name making comedy records. It is thought that Parlophone had been recommended to the Beatles manager Brian Epstein by Steven Ward of Profumo scandal fame.

Steven Ward lived 100 yards from 57 Whimpole St on Whimpole Mews and he had an Osteopath practice there.

For who don’t know Ward was implicated with prostitutes Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davis with the UK Defense MP John Profumo and a Soviet Spy.

Brief shots of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davis appear in the Beatles video Free As A Bird .

Both Dr Richard Asher and Dr Steven Ward “committed suicide”

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Paul McCartney always insisted that the tune YESTERDAY was in his head when he woke up at Jane Asher’s/hypnotist Dr Richard Asher’s house at 57 Whimpole St.

Now a song from John Lennon on the Imagine Album.

How Do You Sleep?

SO Sgt. Pepper TOOK YOU BY SURPRISE
YOU BETTER SEE RIGHT THROUGH THAT MOTHER’S EYES
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head

HOW DO YOU SLEEP?
HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?

You live with straights who tell you, you was king
JUMP WHEN YOUR MOMMA TELL YOU ANYTHING
The only thing you done was YESTERDAY
And since you’ve gone you’re just another day

How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?

How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?

A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they’ll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years

How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?

AND

Paul McCartney himself

‘I wake up to the sound of Music, Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom

Let it be”.

Paul McCartney ‘s mother died suddenly ………..
her name was Mary………….

And Finally Lewis Carroll was a member of the The Society for Psychic Research.