As the biggest band in the world The Beatles had hordes of screaming women throwing themselves at them.

The women groupies would do anything to get close and then once close the Fab Four had their pick of the gilrs.

But it's emerged that instead of having to indulge in small talk with starstruck music fans the band instead opted for a more straight-forward way of getting girls - paying for them.

A new authorised book about Beatles member Paul McCartney reveals that as the band travelled across America their were pre-paid prostitutes lined up at their hotels.

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There was apparently one for each of the band - Paul, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - although it's not clear who booked them.

The revelation is among a string of fascinating stories about the band in the new book PAUL McCARTNEY: The Biography, by Philip Norman , which is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

The book, which was written with the authorisation of McCartney, details the extraordinary set up so the band could unwind after gigs and travel.

Writing in The Daily Mail the author said: "At airports across America, four pre-paid high-class hookers would usually be part of their welcoming party.

"As thousands of fans surrounded their hotels, it proved a welcome distraction from their imprisonment."

It's not the first time the band have been linked to prostitutes.

Journalist Larry Kane, in his book " Ticket To Ride ," which documents the bands ground breaking 1964 American tour, described how the band would have a break for a few days between gigs .

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He writes: "This stop would provide a chance for them to rest and rev up their engines for the final two-thirds of the tour."

Kane vividly describes the first day at the band's hotel by being invited up to The Beatles' suite to witness a line-up of prostitutes in low-cut dresses.

"Take your pick" were the words directed to him by John Lennon, which he reportedly declined.

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The news that the chart topping band used prostitutes will come as no surprise to avid followers of their early career.

The Fab Four's liaisons with sex workers have been well documented in the past particularly in their early years when they played in Hamburg, Germany, and lived in the run down St. Pauli quarter and mingled with sex workers.

It was in Germany that Paul had his first sexual experience with a prostitute, which he found thoroughly unnerving.

He said: ‘[She was] a shortish, dark-haired girl . . . I think she was a stripteaser,’ he recalled later. ‘I remember feeling very intimidated in bed with her . . . I spent the whole night not doing an awful lot but trying to work up to it.’

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In the new book, which focuses on McCartney, there are details of his string of sexual conquests.

In fact it states he regarded his liaisons as "only one step on from signing an autograph".

Apparently McCartney once had a four-in-a-bed session in which he’d been the only male.

Apparently the mop topped singer would have several girls on the go at once and was even caught in bed with one girl by actress turned cookery writer Jane Asher to whom he had been engaged.

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However one of the more unlikely revelations is the singer songwriter used to like his leg hair COMBED.

Still in his early 20s he was dating 17-year-old Iris Caldwell, a trapeze artist who went on to work as a dancer in pantomimes and summer variety shows.

The author of the book writes: "In the late evenings, they were often at her home, where Iris’s mum Vi provided not only non-stop food and hot drinks but also leg-grooming for Paul.

"He’s quite hairy, and having his legs combed seemed to relax him,’ says Iris. ‘He’d say, “Oo, Vi, give me legs a comb” and roll up his trouser-leg, and Mum would get a comb and do it."