“‘Pete [Best] can’t be with us today, so would you say hello to Ringo Starr?’ Everyone went wild, Ringo started playing and that was it.”
Alison told the Radio Times that on another occasion, she approached Paul McCartney and John Lennon in the post office and asked for their autographs.
“Paul said, ‘What’s your name, love?’ and put ‘To Alison, love Paul,’” Alison recalled.
“Then he added ‘The Beatles’ in brackets underneath. He said, ‘I thought I’d better put the Beatles because in the future, someone’s going to look at that and think, ‘Who the bloody hell is Paul?’”