Pete Shotton said: “I rang up John’s accountants, told them about the supermarket, and asked them to check the place out. A few days later, they returned the verdict that it was a fine business, and that John and I could hardly hope for a better investment. The upshot was that by Easter 1965 I was already launched on my unanticipated new career, running a supermarket on a little island that I hadn’t even heard of four months earlier. One of the best things about Hayling Island, from my standpoint, was that it was less than an hour’s drive from Weybridge. For the next several years, I was to spend almost all of my free weekends staying with John (unless, of course, he happened to be out of town on Beatle business). He even designated a special room for me at Kenwood: the Blue Room, so called for its uniformly blue wallpaper, furnishings, and decorations.”