Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest episode of Life on Planet Porky,

with myself the Porkmeister and, of course, the rock chick writer extraordinaire.

Here's Leslie Ann Jones, who's with me now. Leslie Ann, how are you this fine morning?

Rocking away here,

Michael. It's, yeah, it's good to be alive. Yeah, it is good to be alive as well. I tell you what,

because we don't want to disappoint our audience by not including a story about something to do with the Beatles, I've come across an extraordinary, maybe I'm a bit of a weirder, but I like reading obituaries in the papers, mostly because I like to read about war heroes and young men who at the age of 21 signed up to fight the Luftwaffe, you know, in 1940 and all that.

I can't, you know, I just can't get over the bravery when you think that they were taken out of school sometimes

and trained how to fly Spitfires, it's astonishing. But anyway, you come across all sorts of

other things and you are, of course, a Beatles historian. And so you might know this guy, but I

certainly don't. His name is Harry Pinsker, the Beatles accountant who kept the taxman at bay, but drew the line

at a nude photo of John and Yoko, which he apparently wouldn't endorse for the album cover.

Interesting. Yeah. No, I sort of vaguely came across this guy. You know what it's like with a cast

of thousands upon thousands? Oh yeah, absolutely.

When you're writing about somebody like John Lennon, it's about, it's as much about, I should say,

who you leave out as who you put in. So I didn't include Harry in my book. I wouldn't expect you to.

And in fact, I'm amazed you even know about him because, I mean, as you quite rightly say, over the years,

thousands of people's lives touched on the Beatles, you know, even if it was somebody who sold

John Lennon a car or something, you know what I mean?

Yeah, and there was that woman wasn't there recently who died, who was a life model at the

college at Liverpool's School of Art.

Yes.

Who was said to have been drawn by him.

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