of ohhhhh, but then we laughed and he did too. Being born in Liverpool you have to be a comedian.” Paul recalls “a little tense second and then everyone laughed,” and Smith’s account would prevail: “It cracked the ice, and for the next fifteen to twenty minutes the Beatles were pure entertainment. When they left, George and I just sat there saying, ‘Phew! What do you think of that lot then?’ I had tears running down my face.”
