In conversation with Ruth McCartney about The Beatles & David Cassidy

As a young girl growing up in Liverpool, Ruth McCartney, would sit around the kitchen table with her mother, Angie, helping to deal with millions of fan mail for The Beatles – and earn a little bit of pocket money. It was a matter of keeping it in the family when Paul McCartney is your stepbrother. She runs creative digital agency McCartney Multimedia with her husband Martin and mother, Angie. Their first client was David Cassidy who was a good friend. Although not having direct dialect coaching, when David was preparing for his acclaimed role in Blood Brothers, he would call Ruth and adopt a Liverpudlian accent. She recalls David’s reaction when Paul phoned him out of the blue, and her lasting, deeply moving, memory of David. Ruth was four years old when she found herself with a front row seat to Beatlemania. Her mother had married Paul’s father, Jim, after a short courtship in 1964, and it was just was just another day when John Lennon would come over to stay or Jimi Hendrix arrive unannounced on the doorstep. Ruth studied piano, guitar and dance before becoming a “pop sensation” in Russia. She speaks passionately about their friendship, meeting David in an elevator, taking him home to meet her mother and recalls amusing anecdotes around The Beatles, the group which influenced David. Check out the full podcast on https://thedavidcassidyconnections.li... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify, Amazonmusic and all major platforms for digital and laptop devices https://mccartney-multimedia.com/mcca... https://www.mccartneystudios.com/ Thanks to Darrell Lloyd/Backgrid for the photo of David and Ruth