Paul McCartney
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But now you think, wow, you know, just going out and home delivering all these babies and the parents being so in love with you.
I mean, they would come around to our house and bringing little gifts, a little statuette or something, very cheap stuff.
But just to show the gratitude, I have one big memory of her.
It was in the winter and it had been a heavy snowfall and she got called up, because we had a phone, one phone in the house, and she got called to go to a birth.
So she got on her bike, because they didn't have cars.
She got on her bike in this deep snow with her uniform on, with her little suitcase on the back and her little basket on the front.
And I have this memory in the streetlights of us cycling out through the snow and thinking, wow, that's pretty brave.
I mean, you know...
They did it.
No, we were from Liverpool and you know You didn't want to be lumped in with everyone.
Yeah, we were like we thought we were special and I think at one point it was the second city and
to London, because it was a big port.
Yeah, fabulously rich.
So, you know, we had a great sense of importance, which waned through the years, you know.
But when I was growing up, you definitely thought Liverpool was a very great, grand historic place.
You used to go down and see all the liners off.
They'd all be going off to Canada, you know.