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Fact #99295

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Short story:

In a break from filming A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles dine with aspiring politician Jeffrey Archer at Brasenose College, Oxford, UK, as part of an Oxfam campaign they are supporting.

Full article:

Sheridan Morley (aquaintance of Archer) : The first time I heard of Jeffrey was in 1963, when I saw his name appearing on posters all over Oxford saying something like, 'Jeffrey Archer presents The Beatles'.


We were all thinking 'who is this Archer character, and how did he get The Beatles to Brasenose?' Well he did, and there was a dinner and I went along. In the course of the evening I went to the toilet, and there beside me was Ringo Starr. Sheridan Morley (aquaintance of Archer) : The first time I heard of Jeffrey was in 1963, when I saw his name appearing on posters all over Oxford saying something like, 'Jeffrey Archer presents The Beatles'.


We were all thinking 'who is this Archer character, and how did he get The Beatles to Brasenose?' Well he did, and there was a dinner and I went along. In the course of the evening I went to the toilet, and there beside me was Ringo Starr.


He asked if I knew this Jeffrey Archer bloke. I said everyone in Oxford was trying to work out who he was. Ringo said : 'He strikes me as a nice enough fella, but he's the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it.'