The Night Everything Became Possible
An Excerpt From My Memoirs
Ralph Danks, our lead guitarist, had picked up an extraordinarily pretty Puerto Rican girl called Maria who was, to me at least, the very incarnation of the heroine of “West Side Story”.
I could not help courting her and flirting with her within the bounds imposed by the fact that she was a bandmate’s girlfriend.
So much to my amazement, when at the tail end of a long train journey, we got to our hotel in Torremolinos, Ralph unceremoniously opened the door of my room, pushed Maria in, dropped her suitcase tersely stating:
“You want her! You take her!”
