I pass along a good story

via From The North

And, speaking of dearly departed Saint John of Strawberry Fields, I was recently told a really funny (though, sadly probably apocryphal) story about the occasion when Lennon was filming his legendary sequence for the Christmas 1966 Not Only ... But Also episode by someone who worked, briefly, on the series (in a floor-sweeping capacity). If you've never seen this particular sequence, John played Dan, the doorman of a trendy London nightclub, The Ad-Lav, which was situated in an underground men's lavatory. He was filmed with Peter Cook (playing American TV presenter Hirman J Pipesucker) and lets him into the establishment once the little matter of a 'five pound waiting list' has been satisfactorily dealt with. The location used for the scene was outside the entrance of a genuine Gentlemen's public convenience on Broadwick Street in deepest Soho. One that's still there as it happens and that Keith Telly Topping has been known to frequent on the odd occasions when he's been caught short bustin' for a Jimmy Riddle in Central London. Filming took place early one Sunday Morning in November. Rumour has it that, as the crew were setting up to do the shot and John was standing by the entrance in his full doorman's outfit, some urine-stenched tramp staggered out of a side-street and walked straight towards the lavs, pausing only to give Lennon a sideways glance and mutter, in a broad Glaswegian accent, 'I know you! Y've come doon in the world since y'said y'were bigger than Jesus!'