Roll Up for the Magical Mystery Tour
Shirley was my client for many years at Vidal Sassoon and she often used to say to me that she accompanied Cliff Richard, Liberace and Engelbert Humperdinck on their shows.
When I was listing to The Beatles rehearse at Trident Studios, John Lennon happened to say if anyone knew an accordionist. I said to him that I have a client who plays accordion professionally.
John asked if I could you tell her to ring Derek Taylor and he would put her in touch with him.
When she came in a few weeks later I asked her what she has been doing. She said a few TV shows etc, then asked what I have been doing?
Go With The Beatles on a Coach!
I said if you could keep it quiet and don’t tell anyone I have been invited to go with the Beatles on a coach and they are making a film called the Magical Mystery Tour.
She looked at me and said that if I could also not tell anyone she had also been invited by John Lennon to go on the coach.
Shirley’s Wild Accordion
And that is why we had “Shirley’s Wild Accordion.”
You can read may more stories about my time as the Beatles hairdresser in my book THE CUTTING EDGE which can be purchased
The Cutting Edge (Paperback)
The Beatles’ hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties’ psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst of this epochal change was Leslie Cavendish, hairdresser to the Beatles and some of the greatest stars of the music and entertainment industry.
