I’ve been re-reading Mark Lewisohn’s majestic biography of the Beatles (or at least the first volume thereof; we fans are still waiting for him to release the second volume into the world).
He mentioned No 15 Poland Street in Soho where the Beatles first publicist Tony Calder had his offices. The Beatles likely crammed in here in 1962 to promote first single, Love Me Do.
Meanwhile next door in 1811 the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was living at No 16. He was licking his wounds after being booted out of Oxford University for writing a sacrilegious pamphlet and was in the doghouse with his Dad who held the purse strings .
John, Paul, George, Ringo….& Percy were all at the very start of hugely significant careers. I like to imagine their young ghosts meeting across the 151 years that separate them in Soho and maybe going for a pint of wine in the Star & Garter further along Poland Street.
