Edwards said: “I’d go to the pub with them and they’d take me to Abbey Road studios where I saw them recording the Sgt Pepper album.

“When I was living with Ringo, he was very homesick and kept coming up to see his parents in Liverpool.”

When the Small Faces split up in 1969 and were left penniless, Edwards invited Ronnie Lane to stay at his house.

Rod Stewart joined the band, which became the Faces, and many of the songs from the first album were written in Edwards’ living room.

In 1980, he was commissioned by Pete Townshend, of The Who, to film promotional videos for up-and-coming bands in Liverpool.

“It was the day Lennon was shot and it was very strange to be driving from place to place in Liverpool, listening to the callers on the radio either feeling devastated, as we were, or saying that he deserved it for leaving Liverpool.”

Edwards now lives near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, where he owns a rug company with his Liverpool-born wife, Madeleine, whose parents ran a newsagents on Smithdown Road.

He continues to paint and is creating a range of limited edition hand-painted guitars for Fender.

He has two sons, Dylan, 26, a Manchester-based graffiti artist, and 24-year-old Brandon.

“I named them after drunken poets because I didn’t want them to be too clean living to buy their dad a pint,” he adds.

A JOURNEY into Vision and Sound: The Work of Dudley Edwards is at 3345 Parr Street until November 30.