‘In conclusion, there is some evidence that circa 1966 John Lennon made a remark about the difficulty of experiencing a “quiet pint” in a favorite Liverpool pub.’
So states a blog post by Garson O’Toole, the famous consulting quote investigator, responding to a query we made last year.
He has traced it back as far as Philip Norman’s 1981 muck-raking biography Shout! but not to source.
If you’ve got copies of magazines containing Bill Harry’s early Beatles writing, perhaps you’ll have more luck.
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[…] (Great thanks to Ray Bailey whose query led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey run the website “Boak and Bailey’s Beer Blog” and they wrote an entry on this topic and a follow-up comment.) […]