[2] In March 1980, after the musical's last West End show, Harrison formed The Bootleg Beatles with fellow cast members Andre Barreau and David Catlin-Birch.

The band invested their dwindling finances in two guitars – an Epiphone and a Gretsch – as well as two Vox amplifiers, four black polo-necks and a wig.

[3] On 26 March 2011 at a gig in St Albans, Neil Harrison – otherwise known as "Bootleg John" – shocked the audience after coming to the stage to perform "Imagine" as an encore by announcing that he was leaving the group "to bring the average age down a bit'.

The Bootlegs then performed "Back in the U.S.S.R." followed rather fittingly by the medley of songs from the Abbey Road album that culminates with "The End".

He sang an acoustic version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" for the 2013 Spanish movie Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed.