Diary: Not the Apple of his eye, then?

THE death of Neil Aspinall, former head of the Beatles' music empire, gives Alba the chance to plunder his current reading material, an account of the heady days at Apple, the Fab Four's erratic record label.

In his memoirs, The Longest Cocktail Party, Richard DiLello, Apple's resident "house hippie", writes of White Trash, a Scottish group whom Mr Aspinall, in one of his more candid moments, declared "no f****** good".

At Paul McCartney's insistence,...