Sometimes John joined in with fine harmonies, but mostly he took the piss. Pete says that during one Cavern performance of “Over the Rainbow,” John leaned back on the piano, pointed to Paul, burst into raucous laughter and shouted, “God, he’s doing Judy Garland!” Paul had to keep singing in the knowledge that John was pulling crips and Quasis behind his back or making strange sounds on his guitar to interrupt him. Yet, if Paul stopped in the middle of the number, John would stare around the stage, the essence of innocence.42 There were always several simultaneous reasons why an audience
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