Jane Asher, who was in a relationship with Paul McCartney between 1963 and 1968, was born on this day in Willesden, north London.
She was the youngest of three children born to Dr Richard Alan John Asher and Margaret Asher. Her father worked as a writer, broadcaster and consultant in blood and mental diseases at Central Middlesex Hospital, and her mother was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Asher became a child actress and later had a distinguished career on stage and screen.
Also on this day...
- 2017: Full details of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper 50th anniversary edition
- 1970: Ringo Starr is interviewed for the BBC’s Scene And Heard
- 1967: Paul McCartney visits Jane Asher in Denver
- 1965: Filming: Help!
- 1964: Filming: A Hard Day’s Night
- 1963: The Beatles receive their first silver disc
- 1962: Live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (evening)
- 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
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