Hunter 86, moved with his former love Claire to Ryde in the build-up to lockdown and his 103rd book tells their story over the course of their time here.

Instead, he's found himself living alone on the Isle of Wight and launching a new literary festival.Despite Hunter’s late arrival – he’d gone to Claridge’s instead of the Connaught, and poor Claire was ‘hysterical’ – the interview was brilliant, once he’d got Jack ‘to remove his stupid Ray-Bans’. Then I hauled myself to my feet and staggered about two hundred yards back along the beach – where I saw that Claire was standing at exactly the same spot I had left her. He’s bought them a love nest at the seaside: a pink-washed Victorian villa, minutes from the beach at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. I take off my trousers and socks, pull the curtains, get under the duvet, and am usually asleep in minutes.

By then they were pissed off with being The Beatles, they were still making records but had stopped performing in public and had enough of being the most famous people on the planet.

She thought that when our children visit we should make ourselves scarce and let them have the place to themselves.

Chairman of the Historic Ryde Society, Brian Harris, who runs the museum with his wife, Sandy, said: “It’s enough to keep us going for another year.It usually is the man's fault — not wanting anything changed, can't see the need, can't see what is worn, what is wrong and, of course, not wishing to spend more money, being a mean bastard.