I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered.

Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter.

The interesting thing as a writer about Snodgrass was that it liberated you from all the clichés about John Lennon, because you could do what you liked with him. There was no official legend of the Beatles to have to fit into, says Quantick, who also wrote a book in 2002, Revolution, which was a deep-dive into the band’s White Album.

The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.