Paul McCartney had to scratch around for help after getting “crabs” and trying to hide it from his girlfriend Jane Asher.
The Twist and Shout singer’s itchy secret is revealed in a new book by Alistair Taylor, personal assistant to Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
He said: “Paul and I, and Jane, went up to the farm in Scotland.
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“Paul was very weird. He sent Jane out back to look for something and said to me, ‘Can you get down to the chemist? I’ve got crabs. Get me something. Jane mustn’t know. Tell the chemist it’s for you’.
“I called a taxi. I went to town to see Bob Graham, our solicitor, who handled everything for us in Scotland.
“I said, ‘Bob, I’ve got – I’ve got a dose of VD’. ‘Christ,’ he said, and he just grinned. I said, ‘I must get something for it’.”
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The solicitor told Taylor, aka Mr Fix It, to go and have a drink and to come back later. Taylor, who died in 2004, added: “When I came back he had this bottle of clear liquid. He said, ‘Here’s the bill’. It said: For Sheep Dip, £3.15. I just thought it was lovely, you know, the sheep dip.”
Crabs are also known as pubic lice and can cause intense itching as well as skin problems.
Taylor is one of many interviewees who feature in the memoir All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
