“Paul turned his back to me to get something. What emerged was a perfectly rolled ganja joint”: Carlos Alomar’s hazy first encounter with Paul McCartney

“Paul turned his back to me to get something. What emerged was a perfectly rolled ganja joint”: Carlos Alomar’s hazy first encounter with Paul McCartney

Carlos Alomar has looked back on his first encounter with Paul McCartney, after he was recruited to play on one of the former Beatles’ solo records in the 1980s.Alomar boasts the unique merit of having met more than one Beatle in his time. By the time he joined Macca on Press to Play, he’d already crossed paths with John Lennon and Ringo Starr. But the session veteran’s involvement with Macca was far more involved, in more ways than one.“It was …