“I thought I was dead, Eric,” he said. Carried out to the ambulance on a stretcher covered in blood, and quite possibly dying, he said to his two new housekeepers, who had just started working for him and whom he had not yet met, “So, what do you think of the job so far?” The first I knew he was going to survive those dreadful early hours was the unmistakably George quote displayed on the BBC website. When the police asked him about the intent of the intruder, he had said, “Well, he wasn’t auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys.” “Why doesn’t this kind of thing happen to the Rolling Stones?”
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