Paul is the only London Beatle. He lives in a large detached three-story house in St. John's Wood, near Lord's cricket ground and just round the corner from EMI's recording studios. He bought it at the end of 1966 for 40,000 pounds. He didn't do much knocking about, compared with John and Ringo. Paul spent nothing on some things, such as the garden It became a jungle, completely overgrown, inhabited only by the prowling Martha. When he'd moved in it had been very pretty. Everybody kept on at him, especially his dad, to do something about it. He seemed to delight in its wildness and the way it annoyed some people. But at the end of 1967, he decided to start having it spruced up. He got the idea of building a magical house in it, a sort of pagoda on a raised platform with an open glass roof onto the skies.

George has a very long, low single-story brightly painted bungalow at Esher. It's on a private development, owned by the National Trust, very similar to the one where John and Ringo live. You enter the estate through a gateway from the main road, then go into what looks like the wooded gardens of a stately home. You can't see any houses at first. They are hidden from the roadway, all very secluded and lush-looking. They're named, not numbered, so it's impossible to find any of them. George's is the hardest to find. The name of his house, Kinfauns, is not even on his house or in his garden. The driveway to it looks at first to be part of another house. The bungalow has two wings to it which enclose a rectangular court- yard at the back. In this he has a heated swimming pool. All the outside walls of the house have been painted by George, or at least sprayed, in bright luminous-looking colors. From his gardens the house looks like a psychedelic mirage.

Ringo lives around the corner from John in the same private housing development in Weybridge, Surrey. It is also a large mock-Tudor house. It was built in 1925 and is called Sunny Heights. It cost him 37,000 pounds, plus 40,000 pounds to do it up. It hasn't got a swimming pool like John's or George's but it has much bigger grounds, with lots of trees and shrubs. It backs onto St. George's Hill Golf Course. Neither Ringo nor John is a member of the club and neither has ever asked to be. But when they moved in one newspaper reporter asked the club if the Beatles could be members. He was told no, there was a long waiting list. Ringo says he wouldn't join anyway. He doesn't dig walking. Ringo's garden has had a lot of very expensive landscaping done to it. At the back, the house now looks down into a huge amphitheater dug out of the ground. It has lots of brick terraces and ponds which you walk down and into from the French windows of the main drawing room. There are little woods at either side of this amphitheater, still part of Ringo’s garden. Up one tree there is a large playhouse.