them, swore with them, womanized with them and enjoyed late starts and late nights with them, hanging out after work at the bowling alley or Blue Angel, Joe’s caff or Ma Storm’s. Their religion was different—John, Paul and George all had Irish blood and were the not-so-common fruit of Catholic–Protestant marriages; Ringo was pure Protestant—but his antipathy toward church-going was identical. And where Pete had been solidly into sport, with his boxing background and rugby talent, in Ringo the three of them found just about the only other male on Merseyside utterly indifferent to it. The
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