 PAUL McCartney's representative on earth lights up one of the 60 cigarettes he will smoke today and pours scorn on the notion that he could ever commit the ultimate betrayal . . . "There is as much chance of me writing a book about Paul as there is of me taking life seriously," says Geoff Baker, who has served his lord and master as press officer for 14 eventful, newsworthy years. "I could write hundreds of books about Paul, but I'd never do it - even if someone put a gun to my head. "It would cheapen everything. I think it's entirely wrong to work for someone and then write a book about him." But you could do it? There would be nothing stopping you? "Of course I could do it. But it isn't a consideration. It's never going to happen." It would be letting Paul, and himself, down. Although Geoff, in his own self-deprecating words, did "**** up" and let his boss down quite recently. And he is big enough to bring up "That David Blaine thing" just a few minutes after we meet, as he prepares to oversee an afternoon of promotional TV interviews for the born-again Beatles' albumLet It Be ... Naked. He was fired by Paul - though reinstated within hours - after it emerged that he had tipped off a London Evening Standard photographer that his boss would be visiting the scene of Blaine's stunt by Tower Bridge. There were reports of a certain amount of unpleasantness, including a scuffle between Paul's pals and the snapper, although Paul later played down the incident as "a group of friends on a night out" and dismissed the "sacking" as a joke. Anything you'd like to add, Geoff: "Yes, I'm a ****". So the conpiracy theorists were wrong and it wasn't a Baker/McCartney stunt to generate even more headlines? "We're not that ******* mad!" | 
