When Paul and John showed up on George�s doorstep George�s mouth had, according to John at least, dropped open before he�d decked Paul shouting "Bastards!"
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"Oh Gabby" sighed John "You should have seen it, that boy is getting more like me every day"
"John why are you calling me?"
"Because I�m at Paul�s so I don�t have to worry about the phone bill"
"Oh OK�. Should I worry that George is becoming like you?"
"Oh no, you should be very pleased Gabby. He just opens the door and hits Paulie and they�re all rolling around on the floor hitting and kicking and biting"
"Shouldn�t you have made sure neither of your guitarists kill each other?"
"Nah, I was having fun watching them act like proper hooligans"
"John you are a proper hooligan"
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They�d shortened the silver Beatles to just the Beatles and were now playing at the Cavern club minus Stu. So with out a bassist Paul was forced to go out and buy a bass of his own. Also, their new discovery of the telephone was replacing the letters she�d get every day. Now instead every few days someone would poke their head into her room and say "Those scouse blokes are calling you again."
One day when she�d gotten back from an hours chat with George (who was at the Best house so he didn�t have to pay the bill) when Lucy accosted her.
"Right" she said "Who are those blokes who keep ringing you?" she wanted t o know
"Remember George and Paul?"
"Yeah"
Gabrielle nodded "That�s them"
"That!" Lucy exclaimed and picked up a photograph off the bedside table "The Quarry Men? You still talk to them?"
"Of course" Gabrielle sighed and flopped back on her bed "Why wouldn�t I� and they�re called the Beatles now"
Lucy pulled a face "What a bloody funny thing to call your band"