When I went to see Paul McCartney and Wings at the City Hall in 1973 I wore my Biba dress, I still have the ticket somewhere [Sharon found it in her sisters’ old leather purse some weeks after our conversation]. I went with 2 friends and we got talking to the girl next to me as she was on her own, she was American and we just got on. Next thing she’s taking us down by the stage where the security were stood, this girl is talking to them and she shows them a bit of paper, I have no idea what was on it. They let her through and she beckons us to go with her, I have no idea what’s going on. We follow her through all these corridors and there’s Paul and Linda McCartney coming out of their dressing room. Well I am rarely lost for words but I couldn’t speak, I just stood there gibbering. Paul took my limp hand and shook it, saying “its ok” he must be used to it. Linda who was behind him was talking to the American girl, then she took off her big silvery coloured ring with a turquoise stone in it and pressed it into the girls hand. I still have no idea who that girl was!
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