John Turner, now "the late", wanted B to run for the Liberals back in 1975, when Turner had decided to move to Vancouver. He wanted B to take his seat in Ottawa/Carleton. B turned him down because he knew his then-wife would not have been a political asset. She was a snob, didn't like people and had a perfect knack for putting them down and making them feel less-than.
So, along with not continuing to play drums with 'The Quarrymen', B didn't enter politics.
But Turner recognized quality and was the guy who nominated B for a Rhodes Scholarship back in 1961, when B was at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. But politics being what it is, a Quebecker won. Nevertheless, the "booby" prize was a Liverholm Fellowship to the London School of Economics, which B won. It was the 'Swinging Sixties' in London, when B met The Beatles and hung out with Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies.
Not a bad booby prize was it!
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