Lennon on the Common Ground: When The Beatles Met Britain's New Wave of Comedy

The Beatles: November 20, 1964

By Nigel Winterbottom

There's something deliciously ironic about John Lennon trudging across Wimbledon Common on a grey November morning in 1964, filming surrealist comedy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. While the rest of the band were likely sleeping off whatever spirits had possessed them the night before, our John was getting his hands dirty in the …