“We used to think they were soft,” John said—anything “soft” in their eyes being crap, finished, down the nick, fookin’ LAST. As George would explain, they never had any intention of going down that well-trodden, misbegotten road: “We’ve always disliked the phoney ‘star image.’ We’d much rather be ourselves. We always came out as ourselves, and we thought, ‘If they don’t like us how we are, then hard luck,’ and they did. People like natural better, I think.”5
