About A Girl
Bringing women out from the shadows of music history. Familiar characters, new perspectives.
Jane Asher & Paul McCartney — Yesterday
By the time she was seventeen, London actress Jane Asher had already made a name for herself, onstage, in films, and in 1963 as a panelist on the BBC’s Juke Box Jury, a popular musical variety show. Due to her youth and popularity, she was offered an opportunity: interviewing The Beatles after their upcoming Royal Albert Hall concert. This simple assignment would be the start of a five-year relationship with Paul McCartney and a wild journey through the eye of Beatlemania and the 1960s cultural revolution, during which Jane would truly find herself.
SOURCES
- Shout: The True Story of the Beatles by Philip Norman
- Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years (Documentary)
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