Steve Turner

Polythene Pam, the other fragment, was born out of a couple of different stories.

A Cavern Club era Liverpudlian fan named Pat Hodgett, who was friends with the band, she's mentioned in Steve Turner's book A Hard Day's Write.

And it's mentioned that she used to have a habit of eating plastic.

And this sounds like maybe some OCD thing or something.

Turner? Oh, yeah, I know them.

You've probably read a couple of Steve Turner's books.

Yeah, 66 and A Hard Day's Right as well.

It's interesting because Joe Gooden's book, Beatles and Drugs, was kind of a biography, sort of roughly chronological, but with the lens of drugs.

And Steve Turner did exactly the same thing, but through the lens of religion and spirituality.

It's a really good idea as a sort of alternative biography because, you know, Mark Lewis and aside, I'll happily read whenever it comes out.

I've said lots of nice things about him, but come on, mate.

Included within this masterpiece album was his brilliant cover of Hurt.

Now, Johnny Cash intuitively understood the song, but he really reimagines his meaning, as author Steve Turner would say in The Man Called Cash.

You know, for Johnny Cash, Hurt's opening numbness, that became the numbness of a long-lived life now dependent on medication.

And Trent Reznor's needle, well, that became a medical IV in Cash's hands.