Then in 1963, whilst draft dodging abroad, I met up with an up and coming group from Liverpool . . .

They were of course The Beatles. They were about to release their second LP when something terrible happened: their bass player (I can't remember his name) was killed in a terrible fishing accident. Since I sort of looked like him, the lads asked me to pretend I was him so the fans wouldn't suspect, so of course I obliged. This is the original cover to that second LP, with the original title. Things were good for a while, but when the album was about to be released the lads started to think that I didn't fit in. George complained the goatee I sported at the time was "way too Sgt Pepper" (which of course wouldn't be released until several years later). Ringo got mad at me for looking the wrong way on the album cover, saying "people will read too much into that". I think he was a little jealous of me. Also, John thought I looked more like Jesus than their dead bass player, so that's what he started calling me; Jesus. As a side note, many don't realize that when John said that The Beatles were" bigger than Jesus", he was merely commenting on the fact that I was the shortest member of the group. Anyway, they eventually ditched me for some other look alike bass player, re-shot the cover photo, and became real famous. I moved on . . .

A few years after The Beatles gig fell through, I grew my hair and met up with a crazy guitar player named Jimi . . .

Jimi was trying to put a band together and needed a bass player. He'd heard of my work with The Fabs and rang me up one day and asked if we could meet for tea. When we met he was wowed by my fro and said "you're in man". I said "Whoah Jimi, I haven't even heard you play yet". So he grabbed his axe, stood on a stool and started playing, and wow . . . he was horribly boring. So I sat Jimi down and showed him a few stage tricks and guitar licks, and the rest as they say is history. Here we are in an early band promo shot. That's me on the left. Jimi loved my hair so much he grew his too. During this period I did alot of drugs, so I don't remember much else. Unfortunatlly, before our first recording session I had to quit Jimi's band and head back to the States to go into rehab, which prompted rumours of my death (although they were greatly exaggerated) . . .

In 1969, after checking myself out of Betty Ford, psychedelia seemed on its way out . . .

That's when I decided to go country . So I cut my hair and hit the road as a solo country act. Although this puzzled and enraged some of my older fans, it caught the attention of country legend Johnny Cash. Johnny liked what I was doing and invited me on his T.V show. I was pretty much booed off stage though, and some guy screamed at me "Judas!" This picture captures the reaction Johnny and I had to that incident . Apparently the T.V censors didn't appreciate this too much, and the episode was never aired . . .

It all began in 1956. Whilst hitchhiking through the mid-western U.S, I was picked up by a young trucker with a funny name . . .

He called himself Elvis. I thought "Okay". While we drove Elvis had the radio on and was singing along when I thought to myself "Hey! This guy might have something"! So I told Elvis that I knew this guy who had a studio and asked if he'd like to try out for him. So we went. This picture was taken during Elvis' impromptu audition at Sun Studios. That's me giving the thumbs up to my bud Sammy Phillips. Long story short, I toured as Elvis accordian player for several hours until one day we both got drafted. Elvis signed up, whilst I took off to England to escape the draft . . .