28 April 1963
The Beatles set off on their first vacations of 1963. John accompanied Brian Epstein to Barcelona and Torremolinos, Spain, while Paul, George, and Ringo headed for Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands off Spain's coast.
John recalled: "'Bad To Me' I wrote for Billy J. Kramer. Specifically for Billy J. Kramer. I was on holiday with Brian Epstein in Spain, where the rumours went around that he and I were having a love affair. Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship.
It was my first experience with a homosexual that I was conscious was homosexual. He had admitted it to me. We had this holiday together because Cyn was pregnant [sic], and I went to Spain and there were lots of funny stories. We used to sit in a café in Torremolinos looking at all the boys and I'd say, 'Do you like that one, do you like this one?' I was rather enjoying the experience, thinking like a writer all the time: I am experiencing this, you know. And while he was out on the tiles one night, or lying asleep with a hangover one afternoon, I remember playing him the song 'Bad To Me.' That was a commissioned song, done for Billy J. Kramer, who was another of Brian's singers. From Liverpool."
Source: Playboy interviews, 1980
Paul, George, and Ringo stayed with Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr in Tenerife
Based on the date and location (Huyton) on the postmark, this letter was mailed for Paul by his Auntie Jin (or one of his relatives visiting her).
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