"I didn't like music at school because we weren't really taught it. Our class was just thirty teenage Liverpool lads. The music teacher would come in and put an old LP of classical music on this old turntable and then walk out. He'd spend the rest of the lesson in the common room having a cigarette. So as soon as he'd gone, we turned the gramophone off and posted a guy at the door. We got the playing cards and cigarettes out and spent the whole lesson playing cards. It was great. We just thought of music as card-playing lessons. Then when he was coming back, we put the record back on, right near the end. He asked us what we thought, and we'd say 'It was great that, sir!' I really can't remember anything else about music at school. Honestly. That's all we ever did. The music teacher completely failed to teach us anything about music. I mean, he had George Harrison and Paul McCartney in his classes as kids and he couldn't interest us in music. George and I both went through school and no one ever thought we had any kind of musical talent at all."