When he returned the next morning, something was wrong.
He said: “The first thing I saw was the padlock on the floor.
“My heart skipped a beat.”
“Shock, horror, horrendous feelings. Yeah, it was traumatic, really. It was that bad it was like someone passing away.”
Horne went to Paul McCartney’s house in St John’s Wood, to tell him the bad news.
He said: “I must have looked like a beaten man when I knocked on the door, expecting the worst.
“But he just very calmly said ‘It’s okay, Ian, I’ve got another one’, and didn’t freak out at all which was fantastic.