“We’ve had LSD”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 177.
This acid… had a distinguished provenance: Goldman, Lives of John Lennon, pp. 195–96.
They got seated and ordered: Author interview with Gibson Kemp, 8/12/97.
“Suddenly I felt the most incredible feeling”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 177.
“half crazy”: “I remember Pattie, half playfully but also half crazy, trying to smash a shop window.” Ibid.
“We didn’t know what was going on”: Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 73.
“We were all screaming”: Ibid.
Ringo, who was waiting: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 178.
“It was just terrifying”: Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 74.
“a light bulb”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 179.
party with “some kids”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“He loved the danger”: “I used to go gambling with Brian.” Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“He was a heavy gambler”: Author interview with Terry Doran, 8/13/97.
Toting Francis Bacon along: Author interview with Lionel Bart, 1/16/98; also Lionel Bart, Arena archives.
“watched him drop $17,000”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“I remember Brian putting his Dunhill”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 131.
“the guy asked Brian”: Author interview with Lionel Bart, 1/16/98.
“great purple bruises”: Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/17/98.
“You’re not going to believe this”: Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“he came back with some hunk”: Author interview with Terry Doran, 8/13/97.
“a fantastic character”: Author interview with Don Black, 1/18/98.
“Norman Weiss… rang Brian”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
“took on”/“were crumbling”: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 8/6/97.
“Instantly, it gave them size”: Author interview with Don Black, 1/18/98.
“run the office”: Geoffrey Ellis, 5/83, AGA.
“glorified office boy”: Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/17/98.
The Lucy Show: Author interview with Don Black, 1/18/98.
“We were only trying to play”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 143.
“the shrine at Lourdes”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“Crippled people were constantly”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 142.
571–72 “he had a habit of putting”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 142.
“These lads have become”: “Beatles Blamed,” NME, 7/30/65.
“I used to be”: Ibid.
“definitely not tour Britain”: “Beatles Plan to Take Long Holiday,” NME, 8/6/65.
“100 minutes”/“unfunny”: “ ‘HELP!’—But It’s Just in Fun,” NME, 7/30/65.
“We need less exposure”: “John Lennon Slams the Critics,” NME, 8/6/65.
“the Beatles had inspired”: “The Beatles Will Make the Scene Here Again, but the Scene Has Changed,” New York Times, 8/11/65, p. 40.
“Things were changing”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 193.
Little did they know: “Prisoners on Floor 33,” NME, 8/20/65.
“happy hysteria”: “British Long-Hairs in City to Begin 3rd Tour of U.S.,” New York Times, 8/14/65.
“farcical affairs”: Lewisohn, The Beatles Live!, p. 185 (caption).
Governor’s Suite: “They were in the Governor’s Suite.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“unfit to sing in public”: NME, 8/20/65.
“sensed that something strange”: Spector, Be My Baby, p. 78.
575–76 “It was alarming how hard-shelled”: Author interview with Larry Kane, 12/24/97.
Chris Hutchins remembers sitting: NME, 8/20/65.
“Four hours of constant rehearsals”: Author interview with Chris Hutchins, 8/6/97.
“one of the most amazing cities”: Larry Kane interview, “The Beatles at Shea Stadium,” 8/13/65.
“For the boys”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“It was terrifying at first”: George Harrison in Badman, Off the Record, p. 169.
“I was caught up”: Geoffrey Ellis, 5/83, AGA.
“It [was] organized”: Bob Whitaker in Badman, Off the Record, p. 168.
Ed Sullivan, who was filming: Author interview with Larry Kane, 12/24/97.
“It seemed like millions”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 186.
“Their immature lungs produced”: “Shrieks of 55,000 Accompany Beatles,” New York Times, 8/16/65.
“a dozen jets taking off”: Chris Hutchins in NME, 8/20/65.
“It’s frightening”: Ibid.
577–78 “the pulsation of the electric guitars”: New York Times, 8/16/65.
“not a minute more”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“It was ridiculous!”: John Lennon, 1965 interview, in Badman, Off the Record, p. 169.
During two numbers: “I wasn’t sure what key I was in in two numbers.” NME, 8/20/65.
“You can see it in the film”: John Lennon, 1970 interview, in Badman, Off the Record, p. 170.
“shattered all existing”: Variety, 8/18/65.
“$100 a second”: “The Singers at Shea—$100 a Second,” New York Journal-American, 8/15/65, p. 4.
“It happens every time”: “I Watched Them Facing Death!” NME, 8/27/65.
“Flames were shooting out”: Author interview with Larry Kane, 12/24/97.
“sat silently, with fixed”: NME, 8/27/65.
Ringo, “pale-faced”: Ibid.
“Beatles, women, and children”: Ibid.
“we couldn’t relate to them”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 190.
But Ringo was game: “We were all on acid.” Roger McGuinn in Badman, Off the Record, p. 175.
“We were all ripped”: Author interview with Peter Fonda, 7/14/99.
“The Beatles actually enjoyed”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“great feeling”: “I got in the swimming pool and it was a great feeling.” George Harrison in Anthology, p. 190.
“He said, ‘You know, man’ ”: Author interview with Peter Fonda, 7/14/99.
“a bit wasted”: “Peter Fonda seemed to us to be a bit wasted.” Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 190.
“they could not be responsible”: NME, 8/27/65.
“Keen to preserve their artists’ prestige”: “Elvis and Beatles!” ibid.
“laughing… all in hysterics”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 191.
partly from nerves: “It was very exciting and we were all nervous as hell,” John Lennon, 1976 interview, in Anthology, p. 191.
“It was hero worship”: Paul McCartney in ibid.
“If you guys are just gonna”: Hutchins and Thompson, Elvis Meets the Beatles, p. 86.
“the other Cilla”: Ibid.
“We all plugged in”: John Lennon, 1976 interview, in Anthology, p. 191.
“It was a load of rubbish”: NME, 9/3/65.
a bit too “wild”: John Lennon, 1965 interview, in Anthology, p. 187.
Before the show, Wendy Hanson: Wendy Hanson, 11/27/83, AGA.
“the dreadful crush of fans”: “Paul was worried by the dreadful crush of fans.” Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“Calm down!” Paul screamed: Time, 9/10/65.
Paul even stopped the show: “Grand Finale,” Newsweek, 9/10/65.
“At one point I glanced down”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“We survived”: Newsweek, 9/10/65.
uninspired covers: NME, 10/29/65.
“a little smasher”: Time, 9/10/65.
“I won’t let Zak”: Lewisohn, 25 Years in the Life, p. 67.
EMI insisted on the date: “John and Paul… had to force themselves to come up with more than a dozen new songs.” Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 63.
The only song ready was “Wait”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 278.
“being bored”: “Paul McCartney as Songwriter,” Herald Tribune, 12/26/65, p. 26.
“You can’t be singing 15-year-old songs”: “Bards of Pop,” Newsweek, 3/24/66, p. 103.
“We were expanding”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 194.
“We were suddenly hearing”: George Harrison in ibid.
They were all still influenced: “The sort of people we were listening to then were on Stax and Motown, black, American, mainly.” Paul McCartney in ibid., p. 198.
“a very bitter little story”: “Tales of Abbey Road,” Beatlefan, no. 86, p. 16.
John claimed he based the narrative: “It was about an affair I was having.” Sheff, Playboy Interviews, pp. 150–51.
“[John] had this first stanza”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 270.
“one of the stickiest”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 194.
“the lyrics were disastrous”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 269.
“crap”/“too soft”: Newsweek, 3/24/66.
“like the line from ‘Respect’ ”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 194.
“spent five hours that morning”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 163.
“I thought of myself”: John Lennon, 1967 interview, in Anthology, p. 196.
“I think… it was about the state”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 272.
“that girl—the one”: John Lennon, 1970 interview, in Anthology, p. 196.
“I had a complete set”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 151.
But by the time he was finished: “I wrote it all down, and it was so boring.” Coleman, Lennon, p. 299.
“filling out the rest”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 277.
“two speeding trains”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“feel comfortable”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 264.
“Jane’s star was rising”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“being disillusioned”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 276.
“It’s a question of value”: Herald Tribune, 12/26/65.
“D’you remember that French”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 273.
Chet Atkins–type: Ibid.
“I had been listening to Nina”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 116.
“I was in the studio”: George Martin, Arena archives.
“Thank you, very much”: Martin, All You Need, p. 183.
“a shock to the recording”: “Beatles’ Martin in Disc Deal,” NME, 8/20/65.
“For the first time we began to think”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 69.
“The studio itself was full”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 196.
“a mind-blower”: Ringo Starr in ibid., p. 197.
“He’d come up with amazing technical things”: John Lennon, 1975 interview, in ibid., p. 197.
“They were incredibly inquisitive”: George Martin, Abbey Road archives, 9/23/96.
“something baroque-sounding”: Ibid.
“just manipulations of the resources”: George Martin in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 200.
“This was the departure record”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 194.
“Whilst projecting [them]”: Freeman, Yesterday, p. 5.
“Well, you know they’re good”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 193.
“Rubber Soul broke everything”: Author interview with Steve Winwood, 6/16/97.
“Bards of Pop”: Newsweek, 3/24/66, p. 102.
“a fine mass placebo”: New York Times, 2/10/64.
“dated stuff”: New York Times, 1/4/64.
a seriously stoned Peter: “Sellers was totally off his head on pot most of the time.” Mojo, 11/95, p. 49.
The Music of Lennon and McCartney: Grenada Television archives.
“a strong hold on each other”: Woman, 12/7/69.
“all the daily newspapers”: Shotton, John Lennon in My Life, p. 101.
At night, he languished: “The Lennon Interview,” NME, 3/11/66, p. 3.
“Nothing made him happier”: Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“People are saying things”: New York Times Magazine, 7/3/66, p. 13.
“It was a very free, formless time”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 218.
“wrecked”/“all these crazy ideas”: Ibid., p. 234.
“taken out of circulation”: “George Pities Paul,” NME, 1/28/66.
“have a fiddle around”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 208.
“Ola Na Tungee”: Donovan in Badman, Off the Record, p. 227.
“Often you just block songs out”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 269.
“Dazzie-de-da-zu”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 208.
“those words just fell out”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 282.
Eleanor Bron: “I liked the name Eleanor.” Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 208.
“John had a fling”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 283.
Jane perform at the Old Vic: She was appearing in The Happiest Days of Your Life. Old Vic (Bristol) archives.
except for the title: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 288.
“The Americans seemed to be”: Norman Smith, Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 202.
“What EMI did for them”: George Martin, Arena archives.
“look over the recording studios”: “Beatles for Memphis!” NME, 4/8/66.
“the Beatles just recorded whenever”: Southall, Abbey Road, p. 97.
Paul recalled that the seed: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 229.
“Whenever in doubt”: Leary, The Psychedelic Experience, p. 14.
“I did it just like he said”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews.
“was all on the chord of C”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 210.
Martin “didn’t flinch”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 291.
“rather interesting”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 210.
“We worked very hard”: Paul McCartney in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 209.
“It went round and round”: George Martin in ibid., p. 209.
“little symphonies”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 291.
Martin “listen[ed] to them at various speeds”: George Martin in Anthology, p. 210.
“He wanted his voice”: Ibid., p. 211.
“we suspend him from a rope”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 72.
“By putting his voice through that”: George Martin in Anthology, p. 211.
“It meant actually breaking”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 72.
Stoned—which they were: “Quite a bit of marijuana was being smoked.” Neil Aspinall in Anthology, p. 212.
“The group encouraged us”: Mojo, 1/96, p. 70.
“thousands of monks chanting”: John Lennon, 1967 interview, in Anthology, p. 211.
“knocked out”: Martin, All You Need, p. 156.
“Well, John,” Martin replied: Ibid.
“a very acoustic number”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 72.
“It was a song about pot”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 209.
not about acid: “It actually describes his experience taking acid.” Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 153.
written to a great extent: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 290.
John and George repeating: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 72.
“a definite jazz feel”: Peter Coe in ibid., p. 79.
“the mikes… right down”: Ibid.
to launch it into orbit: “You’ll really be hearing six trumpets in that coda.” Les Condon in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 212.
“heavier” rock ’n roll: “Paperback Writer had a heavier sound than some earlier work.” George Martin in Anthology, p. 212.
“a guitar lick on a fuzzy, loud guitar”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 151.
The only special effect: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 74.
was “a co-effort”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 280.
“couldn’t get a backing track”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 212.
“big, ponderous, thunderous”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 280.
The Beatles were halfway through: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 213.
“I got home from the studio”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 167.
“The Beatles weren’t quite sure”: George Martin in Badman, Off the Record, p. 208.
“While they were out having a break”: George Martin, Arena archives.
“And that was awful”: Ibid.
“We were really starting to find ourselves”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 212.
“We [wanted] to do something different”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in Anthology, p. 205.
“was a bit of a surrealist”: Ibid.
“he, as an outsider”: “Meat in Money,” Record Collector, 10/94, p. 20.
“We were supposed to be sort of angels”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in Anthology, p. 204.
“gross… and stupid”: George Harrison in ibid.
“It’s their comment on war”: Alan Livingston, Arena archives.
“we thought it was stunning”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 204.
“They absolutely insist”: Alan Livingston, Arena archives.
Unfortunately for Capitol: “Over a half-a-million or so known to have been pressed.” “Meat in Money,” Record Collector, 10/94, p. 25.
“the album cover is being discarded”: Letter from Ron Tepper, 6/14/66.
“I especially pushed for it”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in Anthology, p. 205.
“We weren’t against a little shock”: Paul McCartney in ibid., p. 204.
Clive Davis, who “thought the Beatles had peaked”: “That is a fact…. We were at Columbia and someone brought in the album cover with the dolls and meat… and Clive couldn’t deal with it.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“awful-looking picture of us”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in Anthology, p. 205.
“succumbed to pressure from fans”: “Beatles—Vintage ’66: The Fan’s-Eye View,” Melody Maker, 6/25/66.
“It was too much trouble”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 214.
“Musically, we’re only just starting”: Melody Maker, 6/25/66.
Brian had promised them: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“I don’t think we even thought of”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 214.
On June 16, 1966, Vic Lewis: “Vic Lewis to Tokyo,” NME, 6/10/66.
“But by 1966”: Barrow, “Manila: July 1966,” p. 2.
“And the drugs made things much worse”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/3/97.
uppers and Tuinal: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 181.
“a garden-variety hustler”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“I went over [to Brian’s flat]”: Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“If you show up again”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“sweetest, most special plaything”: Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“a new British sound”: Paul McCartney in Badman, Off the Record, p. 222.
“sharp, incisive jolts”: Riley, Tell Me Why, p. 183.
“studio-verité”: MacDonald, Revolution in the Head, p. 160.
“I had discovered I was paying”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 206.
“righteous indignation”: Paul McCartney in ibid., p. 207.
“threw in a few one-liners”: John Lennon, 1968 interview, in Badman, Off the Record, p. 223.
the full symphonic treatment: “This time there were eight [musicians]—a double string quartet.” Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 77.
The song is an elegant ballad: “I was in Switzerland… and ended up in a little bathroom in a Swiss chalet writing ‘For No One.’ ” Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 207.
gentle wisecracks: “There were funny little grammatical jokes we used to play.” Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 287.
“chains, ship’s bells, hand bells”: Geoff Emerick in Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 81.
“They had a whole crowd”: Ibid.
Abracadabra: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 269.
“Let’s just call it Rock ’n Roll Hits”: “They Love ’Em—Ja! Ja! Ja!” Melody Maker, 7/2/66.
John came up with Beatles on Safari: “Triumphant Return!” Beatles Book Monthly, 8/66, p. 7.
Paul put it up for consideration: “Paul thought of Revolver, and we hadn’t thought of anything better.” Ringo Starr in Badman, Off the Record, p. 221.
the same one that had transported Queen Elizabeth: “It was the train that was used when the royal party toured Germany.” George Harrison in Anthology, p. 215.
“We all knew each other”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“the brutality started to show”: Melody Maker, 7/2/66.
Every one of them was looking forward: “They were excited to get back to Hamburg.” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“[they’d] got famous in the meantime”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 215.
“How about Bettina”: “Beatles Return to Hamburg,” NME, 7/2/66.
“[A] lot of old ghosts materialized”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 215.
“the best present I’ve had”: “Beatles Return to Hamburg,” NME, 7/2/66.
“What kind of questions are these?”: Beatles press conference, Hamburg, 6/26/66.
“soft questions”: “You look too old to ask soft questions like that,” John snapped at a reporter in Japan. Tokyo press conference, 6/30/66.
“Christianity will go”: London Evening Standard, 3/4/66.
The article was picked up on April 13: “Our Fearless Correspondent,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4/13/66.
“The trouble with government”: “Lennon on Elections,” Disc, 4/2/66.
Uh-oh, the reporter thought: “The press was still protecting the Beatles.” Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“As far as these hooligans were concerned”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
George Harrison had been forewarned: “I remember when George was in Germany he got a letter saying…” George Martin in Anthology, p. 216.
And a steady stream of letters flowed: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 9/8/97.
“We always had to deal with these nuts”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“was turned into an armed camp”: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 202.
“All the other bedrooms”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
“We were locked up”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 215.
“It was their first time”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
Especially with Brian and Brown: “I met a guy at the pool” and “I picked up a Japanese boy and brought him back [to the hotel].” Both ibid.
617–18 “yellow shirts and natty bottle-green suits”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 216.
“like a military maneuver”: George Harrison in ibid.
“The drive was absolutely eerie”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
“The audience was very subdued”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 216.
“There were one or two screamers”: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 203.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing”: Mojo, 1/96, p. 54.
“Those little briefcases”: Neil Aspinall in Anthology, p. 217.
“Our bags were on the runway”: George Harrison in ibid.
“You fucking idiot!”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
Tony Barrow thinks it was “unlikely”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97. Also “I doubt if he even read it thoroughly or ever noticed the crucial suggestion that the Beatles might ‘call in on [Imelda Marcos].’ ” Barrow, “Manila: July 1966,” p. 9.
Peter Brown has a distinct recollection: “It was in Japan that we got the invitation to the palace. It came from Tony, and Brian’s answer was ‘regret.’ ” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“President Marcos, the First Lady, and the three”: Manila Sunday Times, 7/3/66.
“This is not a request”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
“in the interest of diplomacy”: “He told us… I recommend that you go.” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“Well, we were fucking right”: Ibid.
“organized troublemakers”: “This left our stationary cars at the mercy of organized troublemakers.” Barrow, “Manila: July 1966,” p. 15.
“Drive on! Go through the people”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
“Your fee is taxed”: Ibid.
“Oh, dear!” he thought: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 220.
“things started to get really weird”: Ringo Starr in ibid.
“The passageway was lined”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“Nobody would give us a ride”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 220.
“The atmosphere was scary”: Barrow, “Manila: July 1966,” p. 17.
“We were shitting ourselves”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“I didn’t fancy the chances”: Barrow, “Manila: July 1966,” p. 18.
“I really felt the boys could be killed”: Author interview with Vic Lewis, 1/20/98.
“We were all carrying amplifiers”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 220.
“an abusive crowd and police”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“they started spitting”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 220.
“When they started on us”: “Lennon: I Thought I Was Going to Get Hurt,” Disc & Music Echo, 7/16/66.
623–24 “You treat like ordinary passenger!”: John Lennon, 1966 interview, in Anthology, p. 220.
“was Brian’s cock-up”: John Lennon, 1972 interview, in ibid. And “we didn’t feel it was our cock-up.” Paul McCartney in ibid.
“seizing with tension”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
Lewis was concerned: “Vic wanted to make sure he got the $17,000.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“It was just sort of a freak show”: John Lennon, 1969 interview, in Anthology, p. 229.
“Who fucking needs this?”: “It was in Delhi that the Beatles started discussing not touring anymore. It was ‘Who fucking needs this?’ ” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“four waxwork dummies”: I reckon we could send out four waxwork dummies.” John Lennon, 1966 interview, in Anthology, p. 229.
“I prefer to be out of the public eye”: Melody Maker, 6/25/66.
“And they decided then and there”: Neil Aspinall in Anthology, p. 229.
“It wasn’t like the boys”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“You’d better get on top of this”: Wendy Hanson, 11/27/84, AGA.
blasphemous: “We Love John and God!” Melody Maker, 8/19/66.
“Beatle Burnings”: Anthology, p. 224 (illustration).
“so it’s no sweat off us”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 294.
KZEE… “damned their songs”: Time, 8/12/66, p. 38.
a Baptist minister in Cleveland: Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 218.
“joining stations… in Massachusetts”: “Beatles Manager Here to Quell Storm Over Remarks on Jesus,” New York Times, 8/6/66.
“We were being told”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97; “There were threats that John would be shot.” Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/17/98.
“didn’t really take it too seriously”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 293.
“a storm in a teacup”: “Are the Beatles Safe in America?” NME, 8/12/66.
“The moment he got in the car”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“were taken completely out of context”: Ibid.
“He did not mean to boast”: Press release, Maureen Cleave, 8/8/66.
Brian “request[ed] emphatically no [further] comment”: Telegram from Brian Epstein to Wendy Hanson, 8/5/66.
“were having a field day”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 225.
“I’d forgotten [all about it]”: John Lennon, 1966 interview in Anthology, p. 225.
“Tell them to get stuffed”: Coleman, Lennon, p. 313.
“It went back and forth”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“One thing seems certain”: “Beatles Create a New Nursery Rhyme,” NME, 7/29/66, p. 3.
“The 100 Greatest Albums”: Mojo, 1/96, p. 70.
“scaling of new musical peaks”: “1966 Band on the Run,” Q, pp. 86–87.
“We’re not trying to pass off as kids”: John Lennon, 1966 interview, in Anthology, p. 229.
NME reported… nine shipped: NME, 7/29/66; and “More Beatles LP Covers,” 8/12/66.
“And so Brian… kept asking”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 226.
“We were nervous”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 8/30/97.
“feared the Beatles might be assassinated”: Coleman, Lennon, p. 314.
“I’ll do anything”: Ibid.
“never seen John so nervous”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 226.
“If I’d have said, ‘Television’ ”: Beatles press conference, Chicago, 8/11/66.
“quite prepared to let the Lennon affair”: “Stern Reply to Lennon Knocker,” NME, 8/19/66.
In Cleveland, especially: “3000 Fans Rush Stage, Force Beatles to Retreat,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/15/66.
“given the order”: Bess Coleman, Teen Life, 9/66.
“By the time we got to Memphis”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 8/31/97.
“Brian was very nervous”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“If we cancel one”: “I heard Paul tell him…” Author interview with Tony Barrow, 8/31/97.
“the flight from Boston to Memphis”: Tashian, Ticket, p. 65.
“So this is where all the Christians come from”: “I was sitting next to John and Paul. John looked out the window and said…” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“Send John out first”: TeenSet, 9/66.
“Driving into Memphis”: Tashian, Ticket, p. 133.
“I will never forget… we pulled”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 294.
“The Beatles smiled through it all”: Commercial Appeal (Memphis), 8/20/66.
“Everyone started to relax”: “On Tour with the Beatles,” TeenSet, 9/66.
“when he heard [the blast]”: Ibid.
Two teenagers had lobbed: “Bang Joins Shrieks in Beatle Show,” Commercial Appeal (Memphis), 8/20/66.
“It was clear from the start”: Author interview with Lionel Bart, 1/16/98.
“I’ve noticed that George”: “American Eye-View,” Melody Maker, 8/27/66.
“It had been four years of legging”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 229.
“Nobody was listening”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 227.
“was fed up playing”: Ibid., p. 229.
Conditions were so pitiful: “I remember Ringo’s drums moving around, and he would get up and move them back.” Tashian, Ticket, p. 70.
“I didn’t want to tour”: John Lennon, 1980 interview, in Anthology, p. 228.
“the music was dead”: Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 46.
It rained before showtime: “It started pouring just before showtime.” “Double-Header with the Beatles,” Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, 8/22/66.
“They’d brought in the electricity”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 227.
“It was really scary”: “The promoter was so cheap he only put a canvas canopy over the stage.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“the only gig we ever missed”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 227.
“a couple bits of corrugated iron”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 294.
“There were sparks flying”: Tashian, Ticket, p. 134.
“to pull it whenever the first person”: Ibid.
“We were sliding around”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 227.
Even Paul admitted he’d had enough: “Oh, God, who needs this?” Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 294.
“had become spiritually rather empty”: Ibid., p. 249.
“We didn’t make a formal announcement”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 229.
“Good news… Diz is here”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“half a dozen or so billets-doux”: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 215.
“a suicidal depression”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/29/98.
“It was not the sort of night”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
with 25,000 die-hard Beatles fans: “Beatles’ Closing Concert on Coast Attracts 25,000,” New York Times, 8/31/66.
“being jolted from head to toe”: Tashian, Ticket, p. 118.
“sounding like clouds bursting”: “Remembering the Night the Beatles Played Candlestick,” San Francisco Chronicle, 8/29/86, p. 23.
“totally familiar studio recorded versions”: “Beatles Strike Out at Ball Park,” San Francisco Examiner, 8/30/66.
“John and Paul say exactly”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 8/31/97.
“a puppet show”: San Francisco Chronicle, 8/29/86, p. 23.
“I was thinking, ‘This is going to be’ ”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 229.
“Right—that’s it”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 8/31/97.
“Is Beatlemania Dead?”: Time, 9/2/66.
Derek Taylor, writing: Melody Maker, 11/26/66.
“impact… and mythology”: “The Beatles Break,” Sunday Times, 11/13/66.
“hanging around”: “And as anybody knows about film work, there’s a lot of hanging around.” Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 130.
“He loathed the endless waiting”: Coleman, Lennon, p. 320.
“It was pretty damn boring”: John Lennon in Badman, Off the Record, p. 251.
“He used to sit cross-legged”: Michael Crawford in ibid., p. 250.
“conjuring up a hazy impressionistic”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 14.
“psychoanalysis set to music”: John Lennon, 1970 interview, in Anthology, p. 231.
“an old Victorian house”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, pp. 131–32.
“It [provided] an escape”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 307.
“There was something about the place”: Goldman, Lives of John Lennon, p. 255.
“I took the name… as an image”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 131.
“travel incognito, disguised”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 295.
“to ease the pressure”: Ibid., p. 296.
“Let’s not be ourselves”: Ibid., p. 303.
“put some distance between”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 166.
“We would be Sgt. Pepper’s band”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 241.
“I had gone through so many trips”: George Harrison in ibid.
“You’ve got to be connected spiritually”: Author interview with Arthur Kelly, 1/10/98.
“feeling would begin to vibrate”: “Soon this feeling would begin to vibrate right through me and started getting bigger and bigger and faster and faster.” Giuliano, Dark Horse, p. 92.
“hung out with him”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 231.
“he offered to give me some instruction”: Giuliano, Dark Horse, p. 93.
“how to sit and hold the sitar”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 233.
Shankar’s “disciple”: “George had not come as a Beatle but as my disciple.” Shankar, My Music, My Life.
“Sometimes [George] would play”: Giuliano, Dark Horse, p. 95.
“harmonizing with a greater power”: Ibid., p. 93.
“by various holy men”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 233.
“Ravi and the sitar were excuses”: Ibid.
“blood money”: “Just give him his blood money.” Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 216.
“Don’t do anything else”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“just indulging himself”: Author interview with Peter Brown; Arena archives.
“morbid,” often incoherent: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 217.
“Nothing I said or did”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
The collapse, when it eventually came: “I didn’t see it coming.” Ibid.
“I stayed in the library”: Ibid., 12/2/97.
“a foolish accident”: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 217.
“I can’t deal with this anymore”: Peter Brown, Arena archives.
“But none of us, however shortsighted”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“You must be mad!”: Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“He wanted to be Ziegfeld”: Author interview with Don Black, 1/18/98.
“terrible” musical: Ibid.
“During the week, we had Gilbert and Sullivan”: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 8/6/97.
an ominous melancholy: “When John came back, he was in a serious funk.” Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“There was so much going on”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
The future of the Beatles: “At some time or other that’s when I really started considering life without the Beatles—what would it be?” John Lennon, 1980 interview, in Anthology, p. 231.
“There were all those Chelsea people”: Green, Days in the Life, p. 76.
“We never had a painting as such”: Aitken, The Young Meteors.
to “liberate art as a commodity”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“a real happening”: “I told him it would be a real happening.” Ibid.
“I thought, ‘Hmm,’ you know, ‘sex’ ”: John Lennon, 1980 interview, in Anthology, p. 235.
“Well, watching telly”: Green, Days in the Life, p. 79.
“I was in a highly unshaved… state”: John Lennon, 1980 interview, in Anthology, p. 235.
sat in the car for “some time”: Les Anthony, 3/87, AGA.
“bullshit and phony”: Peter McCabe interview, 7/71, AGA.
“When he came in, it was like”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“flittering around like crazy”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 86.
“mirror to see your behind”: Unfinished Paintings and Objects, Indica Gallery catalogue.
“Is this stuff for real?”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“This is a joke”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 86.
“It looked like a black canvas”: Wenner, Lennon Remembers, pp. 173–74.
“You take a magnifying glass”: Peter McCabe interview, 7/71.
“I argued strongly”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“Okay, you can hammer”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 88.
“I’ll give you an imaginary”: Coleman, Lennon, p. 327.
“My God,” she thought: Peter McCabe interview, 7/71.
“John was a fun drug-taker”: Author interview with Terry Doran, 8/13/97.
“first high-voltage superblues group”: Dalton & Kaye, Rock 100, p. 122.
“Show business will vibrate”: “Beach Boys Beat Beatles,” NME, 12/3/66.
“We’re all four fans”: “Paul and Ringo Talk about the Beatles,” NME, 12/31/66.
“This idea of jealousy”: Ibid.
pure “rubbish”: Ibid.
“two of the Beatles had approached”: Sunday Telegraph, 11/18/66.
“I think we were itching to get going”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 237.
“it was absolutely lovely”: George Martin interview, 12/5/80, in Okun, The Compleat Beatles, p. 40.
“I was spellbound”: Martin, Summer of Love, pp. 13–14.
Martin cursed himself: “Oh, how I wish I had caught that very first run-through on tape and released it!” Ibid., p. 14.
which took over forty-five hours: Lewisohn, Sessions, pp. 87–90.
“about 80% separately written”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 237.
“creative rivalry”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 70.
“were often answering each other’s songs”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 307.
“John and I would often meet”: Ibid.
“in the middle of the roundabout”: Lyric fragment from “Penny Lane.”
its euphonious name: “He’d been toying with the idea of writing a song called ‘Penny Lane’ because he liked the poetry of the name.” Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 91.
“painted in an exploding psychedelic”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 259.
“more like a play”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 237.
“The lyrics were all based”: Ibid.
“a small collection of gems”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 26.
“rooty-tooty variety”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 319.
Beatles performed at the Cavern: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 89.
“a bit of a shock”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 239.
“an old trap”: Ibid.
“Quiet honestly,” he admitted: “Most Way-Out Beatles Ever,” NME, 2/11/67.
“the Beatles have developed into”: “Other Noises, Other Notes,” Time, 3/3/67.
“The people who have bought our records”: John Lennon, 1967 interview, in Anthology, p. 241.
“cheerful music for dope smokers”: Ward, Rock of Ages, p. 330.
the Beatles’ “playground”: “They loved the whole process of recording: the studio was a playground.” Martin, Summer of Love, p. 68.
“every trick brought out”: George Martin in Anthology, p. 242.
“because he wanted to sound like Elvis”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 53.
“dry, deadpan voice”: Ibid., p. 55.
“I noticed two stories”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 155.
“The verse about the politician”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 324.
“funny… little references”: George Martin in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 241.
“a little party piece”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 247.
“It was a crazy song”: Ibid.
“We’ll tell the orchestra”: Ibid.
“something really tumultuous”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 53.
“But ninety musicians”: Ibid., p. 56.
“with little or no input”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 310.
the theme of which John pinched: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 155.
“The top was all dark”: Julian Lennon in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 238.
“Wow, fantastic title!”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 311.
“very trippy”: Ibid., p. 312.
John had already begun playing: “The imagery was Alice in the boat.” Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 154.
“swapping psychedelic suggestions”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 242.
“trading words off each other”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 312.
“People were running around”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 58.
“orchestral orgasm”: Ibid., p. 60.
“It was… remarkable”: Author interview with Ron Richards, 12/29/97.
“I just can’t believe it”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 96.
“a gigantic piano chord”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 61.
Daniel Barenboim’s piano: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 321.
It took nine attempts: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 99.
Newsweek’s critic: Jack Kroll, “The Beatles’ Waste Land,” Newsweek.
“got mixed together”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 247.
“very productive period”: Mojo, 11/95, p. 84.
“assembly[-line] process”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 242.
“I was in a real big depression”: Interview with Barry Miles.
Food no longer interested him: “John said he wasn’t eating much and was on a vegetarian diet.” Coleman, Lennon, p. 334.
“it was becoming almost impossible”: C. Lennon, A Twist, p. 142.
“tensions, bigotry, and bad temper”: Ibid.
“I know Brian was convinced”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
gone broke in the process: “Here was a man who had been bankrupt twice.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“borrowed money from EMI”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“It was quite simple”: Robert Stigwood, Arena archives.
“sound younger… and be a teenager”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 35.
“joining up”: “Once, he told me he thought of joining up. But I’m sure it was another boyhood thing.” Author interview with Pete Shotton, 7/16/98.
“It said the Hendersons”: John Lennon, 1967 interview, in Anthology, p. 243.
“Almost the whole song was written”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 318.
wanted a “fairground sound”: “The fairground sound, suggested by John…” Ibid.
“smell the sawdust”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 99.
“a pumping kind of sound”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 91.
“I selected two-minute segments”: Ibid.
“but, amazingly, they came back”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 99.
“John was thrilled to bits”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 91.
Paul had written during a nighttime walk: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 320.
“the one hard drug used”: Ibid., p. 383.
“I used to have a bit of coke”: Ibid., p. 384.
“looking back on it, Pepper”: Coleman, Lennon, p. 335.
John told Jann Wenner: “I never took it in the studio.” Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 76.
“accidental trip”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 385.
“By mistake this night”: Ibid., p. 382.
“I suddenly got so scared”: Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 76.
“George, I’m not feeling too good”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 109.
“swaying gently against my arm”: Ibid.
“I thought, Maybe this is the moment”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 382.
“a guy who wasn’t keen”: Ibid., p. 381.
“I always knew I’d have to keep”: Ibid., p. 185.
“spacy”/“very, very deeply emotional experience”: Ibid., pp. 380–81.
“It was a very freaky experience”: Ibid., p. 383.
“They ran down to the studio”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 109.
“Couldn’t really be any other”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 332.
“We had certainly not intended”: Ibid., pp. 332–33.
“We wanted the sleeve”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 248.
His best customers: Hewison, Too Much, p. 70.
“the most formative influence”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 243.
“not good art”: “He said, ‘It’s not good art.’ ” Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 248.
“In years to come”: Peter Blake, 8/83, AGA.
“No, not very much”: Ibid.
“It was just a broad spectrum”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 252.
“naughty” little choice: “That was John’s sense of humor. There had been the Christ controversy… so I think it was just John being naughty again.” Peter Blake in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 245.
Hitler—which managed to piss off Paul: “I didn’t agree with it, but he was just trying to be far-out really.” Paul McCartney in ibid.
“Whatever the others have”: Ringo Starr in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 244; Peter Blake, 8/83, AGA.
The legwork was left: “… so Mal and I went to all the different libraries.” Neil Aspinall in Anthology, p. 248.
“We made a rough kind of wooden frame”: Peter Blake, 8/83, AGA.
“so the delivery boy”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 344.
“We just chose oddball things”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 248.
“with goodies”: “So we wanted to pack it with goodies.” Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 340.
But production costs rendered: “It was a packaging problem.” Peter Blake in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 245.
“Joe Lockwood was furious”: Robert Fraser, AGA (undated).
that photo of Hitler: “Hitler is a definite no.” Martin, Summer of Love, p. 118.
“take Gandhi out”: Norman, Shout!, p. 291.
“We have some problems”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 338.
“It had the flowers”: Neil Aspinall in Anthology, p. 248.
friction between Brian and Robert Stigwood: “Brian had become disillusioned with Stigwood.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“He certainly couldn’t handle them”: Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/17/98.
“fell in love”: “Robert fell in love with them, especially with Barry Gibb.” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“Brian became annoyed”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
Shirley Temple… wanted to approve: Anthology, p. 251.
“What would I be doing”: Peter Blake, 8/83, AGA.
getting stoned with the Jefferson: “We went over to their place, smoking pot.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“golden… far-out”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 254.
“the idea tumbled together”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 350.
“Everyone would spend time”: Ibid.
“I still felt every now and then”: John Lennon in Anthology, p. 272.
“enjoyed the fish and chip quality”: Fawcett, John Lennon: One Day at a Time, p. 92.
“We didn’t see any way”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 272.
“Nobody quite knows”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 353.
“McCartney arrived at the studio”: MacDonald, Revolution in the Head, p. 203.
“references to drugs”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 353.
“the worst kind of musical cliché”: Riley, Tell Me Why, p. 237.
When the Beatles returned: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 111.
“a combination of two separate”: Sheff, Playboy Interviews, p. 155.
unable “to resist singing”: MacDonald, Revolution in the Head, p. 206.
“He knew he had to confront it”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“positively sick”: Ibid.
Paul felt strongly: He considered the Dick James deal “draconian.” Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 146.
“What about us?”: “Yeah, well Klein got the Stones a million and a quarter, didn’t he?” Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 248.
“fast-talking, dirty-mouthed”: Ibid., p. 247.
Brian refused to shake hands: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“fucked-up and all hazy”: “… which is what those pill do to you…” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“felt that more and more”: Joanne Newfield Petersen, Arena archives.
“One night Peter had been”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“a rather grand farmhouse”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“more irrational, more incoherent”: Robert Stigwood, Arena archives.
“isolated themselves, not only”: Daily Mail, 5/12/67.
a small but “grandiose” party: “It was done in a very grandiose way.” Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“very Waspish, a real anti-Semitic Jew”: Author interview with Jerry Leiber, 7/11/95.
“She always insisted”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
it is more likely that they met: “The night I met Linda I was at the Bag o’ Nails,” Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 432.
“the hottest ticket in town”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 152.
“Besides… I thought she was cute”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“zero[ing] in on Paul”: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 247.
“couldn’t help but notice”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“resembled an animated Victorian”: Melody Maker, 5/27/67.
“looked haggard, old”: Coleman, Lennon, p. 334.
“like someone out of a Scott Fitzgerald novel”: Melody Maker, 5/27/67.
“could be considered to have drug-taking implications”: BBC press release, 5/17/67.
“He’d decided this”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“perhaps all week”: “We picked Derek and Joan up after an all-night (or all week)… LSD trip.” George Harrison in D. Taylor, Fifty Years, p. 298.
“Everyone was getting along”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“The minute you walked through”: Author interview with Lionel Bart, 1/16/98.
“the mad hatter’s tea party”: C. Lennon, A Twist, p. 145.
Peter Brown reports: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 255.
“she hadn’t taken anything”: D. Taylor, Fifty Years, p. 301.
“Wasn’t that always the case”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“Paul… didn’t… come”: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 254.
“This was to have been for Paul”: D. Taylor, Fifty Years, p. 300.
“I was downright scared”: Martin, Summer of Love, p. 151.
“remarkable”/“tremendous advance”: Sunday Times, 6/3/67.
“Any of these songs”: The Times (London), 6/4/67.
“They think for themselves”: NME, 5/27/67.
“Over the last four years”: “From Us to You,” NME, 6/10/67.
“equal to any song”: “The Messengers,” Time, 9/22/67, p. 122.
“Unfortunately, there is no apparent”: “We still Need the Beatles, But…,” New York Times, 6/18/67.
“a historic departure”: Time, 9/22/67, p. 128.
a staggering 2,500,000 copies: sales figures from Melody Maker, 6/10/67.
“second renaissance”: Red Robinson in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 246.
“they had the pulse”: Murray the K in ibid.
“the nutters”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 332.
“missionaries”: New York Times Magazine, 5/7/67.
697–98 “messengers from beyond”: “The Messengers,” Time, 9/22/67, p. 128.
“progenitors of a Pop”: New York Times, 6/18/67.
“The Beatles weren’t the leaders”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 253.
“Even when the others weren’t”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“Paul needs an audience”: Davies, Beatles, p. 280.
“the cock who crowed”: Ibid., p. 370.
“I’m either going to bluff”: Paul McCartney in Anthology, p. 255.
“About four times”: ITN footage, printed transcript, 6/19/67.
“The press had a field day”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 255.
“No one knew why Paul”: Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/18/98.
“We weren’t actually telling anybody”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 255.
“I thought Paul should”: George Harrison in ibid.
“I think LSD helped”: Melody Maker, 6/23/67.
Several months earlier, the BBC-1: “Beatles-World TV,” NME, 5/27/67.
Paul had been working on: George Martin in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 251.
“seemed to fit with the overall concept”: Ibid.
“keep it simple”: Lewisohn, Sessions, p. 116.
“Well, it’s certainly repetitive”: “All You Need Is Love,” Beatles Book Monthly, 7/87, p. 4.
“We must do some preparation”: George Martin in Pritchard & Lysaght, The Beatles, p. 251.
“make it a strict condition”: Beatles Book Monthly, 7/87, p. 5.
on the eve of the broadcast: “I went off in the evening to find guests for the next day.” Tony Bramwell in Badman, Off the Record, p. 292.
“Everyone I asked jumped”: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 8/8/97.
“By 7pm [on June 25]”: Beatles Book Monthly, 7/87, p. 7.
“It was so bloody heavy”: Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 257.
“too out of sorts”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.
“zonked”: Bryan Barrett, Arena archives.
on one amazing bill in early June: Lewisohn, 25 Years in the Life, p. 91.
“The idea was that you’d have”: Neil Aspinall in Anthology, p. 258.
According to several well-placed insiders: Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/18/98; also author interviews with Peter Brown, 12/12/97, and John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
the son of a major: Goldman, Lives of John Lennon, p. 295.
Magic Alex, as John dubbed him: “This is my new guru, Magic Alex.” Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 374.
“Alex wasn’t magic”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 258.
“Magic Alex invented invisible paint”: Ringo Starr in ibid., p. 290.
“We didn’t really call anyone’s bluff”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 375.
paying £95,000: Brown & Gaines, Love You Make, p. 261.
“my earthly age”: “The Guru,” Newsweek, 12/18/67, p. 67.
Later he fell under the spell: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 402.
“a method of quickly and easily”: Davies, Beatles, p. 232.
Ringo was visiting Maureen: “At that time, Maureen was in hospital having Jason and I was visiting.” Ringo Starr in Anthology, p. 260.
“After having such an intense”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 263.
“a little bit of emptiness”: Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 400.
“He said that by meditating”: Ibid., pp. 401–2.
“to further the experience”: George Harrison in Anthology, p. 262.
“thought he made a lot”: Paul McCartney in ibid., p. 260.
“It takes time to come down”: John Lennon in Badman, Off the Record, p. 301.