Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes once found himself in a strange club in Beatles-crazy Japan:
"We went to this really mad Beatles club. It was crazy, there were all these little Japanese kids dancing to 'A Hard Day's Night.' It was weird, man. Danny Goffey and I walked in there on my birthday. We had had too much to drink by the time we wandered in. Everyone started screaming. The DJ went mental. 'Oh! Oh! Danny, Gaz! Supergrass! Oh! Ahhh, hey! Hey!'
"So we had a little dance to the Beatles. It was quite funny. There's nowhere else you could do that. They made a little circle around Danny when he was dancing. I didn't really have control of my limbs at that point, so I wasn't sure what I was doing. There was this Japanese guy who looked just like John Lennon. Bizarre. He had the little round glasses and his haircut..."
Indeed, such was man's Lennonesque appearance that Coombes asked him for an autograph!
[According to a 1966 briefing from the British ambassador to Japan, "no fewer than 36,000 policemen were mobilized or alerted" during a series of Beatles concerts at the Budokan Hall of Martial Arts in Tokyo that year. The fab four required protection from screaming girls and from kendo fanatics who felt that the "Biiitorozu" performances desecrated the sacred venue.]
Sources
Rolling Stone; Details, Feb 2002, p. 31
