Jane and her mother, Margaret went to pick Paul up at the airport after he had spent some time in Rome. Jane and he spent the evening out on a date, which made Paul miss his train back home to Liverpool that night. Mrs. Asher suggested Paul to stay in their guest room, but Paul first refused because he didn’t like the idea of staying with a girl’s family. Soon, he agreed to stay. Later, Mrs. Asher told Paul to regard the Asher house as his London house. Paul’s room was on the top floor of the five story town house. The top floor had two guest rooms, one was Paul’s bedroom and the other one was his work room, and there was also a bathroom. Jane’s bedroom was on the floor below.
Paul pretty much became part of the Asher family and stimulating discussions around the Asher family dinner table. Paul and Jane would often attend musicals, classical concerts, plays and exhibitions and went on holiday together to exotic places. Living with a upper middle class family broadened Paul’s cultural horizons. Paul eventually opened an account with Coutts, a Queen’s bank, and ordered Jane a birthday cake all the way from Paris. He even had Jane help pick out his new car, which was a midnight-blue Aston Martin DB6.
Paul lived with the Asher’s during the height of The Beatles career (1963-1966). Most Beatle fans had problems figuring out where Paul’s London house was, until one day a magazine revealed he was living at his girlfriend, Jane Asher’s house. Soon the Asher’s home began getting calls from Beatle fans wanting to talk to Paul, unfortunately they couldn’t ignore the phone calls due to Mr. Asher was a doctor and it could be one of his patience calling him.
It has been said that one of the Beatles’ big hits, I Want to Hold Your Hand, was written in the Asher’s cellar, according to John in an 1980 interview with Playboy magazine:
”We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want To Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses.”
But Paul later said he didn’t think the song was written in the Asher house. So, nobody knows for sure who is right.
