“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink …”, Evening Standard, 4 March 1966
“He observed that the power of Christianity was on the decline …”, statement 6 August 1966
“I wasn’t knocking it, or putting it down …”, Press conference, 12 August 1966
“there was no satisfaction in it …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“something wrong with me because I seem to see things …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“I just see and hear differently from other people …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“People like me are aware of their so-called genius …”, Lennon Remembers (Wenner), 1973
“So the line says ‘Nobody I think is in my tree …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“Attracts me like … a cauliflower”, A Day In The Life (Hertsgaard), 1995
“as obvious as a crack in the wall”, George Martin And The Beatles, interview on CD release of “Red”/“Blue” (CD), 1993
“[Dick James] is another one of them people …”, Lennon Remembers (Wenner), 1973
“the cellos should speak with one voice …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“I was not at all sure it was going to work …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“I’ve grown away from most working-class people …”, Red Mole, 8–22 March 1971, in Lennon Companion (Thomson et al.), 1987
“the biggest mistake of my professional life”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“that small things have their value …”, The Times, 1 April 1967
“Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel”, The Times, 1 July 1967
“I like some of the things the Animals try to do …”, Flip magazine, May 1966
“Penny Lane is a bus roundabout in Liverpool …”, Beatles In Their Own Words (Miles), 1978
“dull suburban shopping centre”, A Hard Day’s Write (Turner), 1994
“a very clean recording”, Anthology (outtake) (ITV), 1995
“They wanted me to play one note over and over …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“A few days later [on 17 January] …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“We never had a theme on a Beatles album …”, Time, 8 June 1992
“All my contributions to the album …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“It wasn’t so much that somebody was pressing the accelerator …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“We were fed up with being the Beatles …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“No, and it sounds like I don’t want to …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“Without Pet Sounds, Sgt Pepper wouldn’t have happened …”, Pet Sounds Sessions CD notes, 1996
“I thought I couldn’t have the Beatles in the frame …”, Mojo 160, March 2007
“The Beatles have dried up, there’s nothing coming from them …”, The Making of Sgt Pepper (ITV), 1992
“Paul tells me that I will get royalties on the song …”, Entry for 1 February 1967; Sunday Times, 20 March 2005
“Ten out of ten for ingenuity …”, Recording The Beatles (Ryan et al.), 2006
“it was a pretty good solo, too …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“in the end, Paul peremptorily replaced George’s work …”, Here, There And Everywhere (Emerick et al.), 2006
“a ‘public’ number”, Twilight Of The Gods (Mellers), 1973
“Come and join our show, listen to us …”, The Making of Sgt Pepper (ITV), 1992
“They decided to ring Ringo …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“It was something out of the ordinary for us …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“Terribly simple, terribly effective …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“I just felt it was very high”, The Making of Sgt Pepper (ITV), 1992
“he sounded a bit silly …”, Here, There And Everywhere (Emerick et al.), 2006
“John could be insecure about his voice …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“That was the peak for everyone else but, for me …”, Melody Maker, 7 August 1971; Ringo Starr (Clayson), 1991
“It could have been him playing with his willie …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“I said, ‘There’s not a chance in hell …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“I think that was the best bass sound …”, Beatles Gear (Babiuk), 2002
“if you somehow manage to pull this off …”, The Brian Epstein Story (Geller), 2000
“I didn’t want to do the project at first …”, Rolling Stone, 17 May 1979
“stunning use of stylised human figures …”, ‘Metamorphosis of the Beatles’, The New Yorker, 30 November 1968; Lennon Companion (Thomson et al.), 1987
“a pastel drawing of his classmate Lucy’s face …”, John Lennon In My Life (Shotton et al.), 1983
“slap paint everywhere and call it a painting …”, Making of Sgt Pepper (ITV), 1992
“trade images with each other …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“The images were from Alice in Wonderland …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“self-conscious poetry …”, Lennon Remembers (Wenner), 1973
“a most wonderful phrase …”, Making of Sgt Pepper (ITV), 1992
“the Rolls Royce of the organ world”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“Nobody believes me. This is the truth …”, 1967; Off The Record (Badman), 2000
“Against the spirit of that song …”, Playboy, December 1984
“the perfect musical and lyrical counter”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“It is a diary form of writing …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“a cross between a harpsichord and a Fender Rhodes …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“He’s looking at the stars …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“except for father-figure George Martin here!”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“At the time I felt really goody-goody …”, Rolling Stone, 11 September 1986
“little more than a demonstration studio …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“the part of honorary stand-in keyboard player …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“The Beatles were there for all the mono mixes …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“If you’re a junkie sitting in a room fixing a hole …”, Washington Post, 1969
“It wasn’t at five o’clock in the morning…”, BBC Radio Four, You Probably Think This Song Is About You, 17 May 1997
“the sky was black and everything felt so dark and dreary …”, The Times, 1 June 2007
“economical, clear, magical”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“keep it sparse”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“I bounced [the orchestra] down to a stereo pair …”, http://emusician.com/ms/beatle_tech/fifth_beatles/to_sir_love/index.html
“This was the sort of thing that Mimi used to come up with …”, Hit Parader, April 1972
“Everything in the song is from that poster …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“so cosmically beautiful”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“I hardly made up a word …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“smell the sawdust”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“pumping away with my feet at that bloody harmonium …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“It had no musical shape but it had the general sound …”, All You Need Is Love (ITV), 1977
“People think the Beatles know what’s going on …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“‘Within You Without You’ came about after I had spent …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“a sort of sound which to us sounded really ridiculous …”, Beatles Gear (Babiuk), 2002
“Ravi Shankar’s brother”, Beatles Book 46, May 1967
“Don’t forget this is the first time that Indian instruments …”, Beatles Gear (Babiuk), 2002
“They found it very difficult indeed to follow …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“It’s a release after five minutes of sad music …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“I’m not very poetic. My lyrics are poor really …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“I was playing to amuse myself…”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“I wrote a mini version of it, using sounds …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“I was continually playing Indian music lessons …”, I Me Mine (Harrison), 1980
“possibly the first song I ever wrote on the piano”, Making Music (Martin), 1983
“would never even dream of writing a song like that”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“It wasn’t really, it was very tongue-in-cheek …”, Mojo 24, November 1995
“a kind of tooty sound”, All You Need Is Ears (Martin), 1979
“Every note played had to be there for a purpose”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“whimsical”, Tell Me Why (Riley), 1988
“almost perfunctory”, Twilight Of The Gods (Mellers), 1973
“padding”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“silly song”, Revolution In The Head (MacDonald), 1994
“That would be a good name for a song …”, Hard Day’s Write (Turner), 1994
“I didn’t think, Wow, that woman gave me a ticket …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“I was thinking vaguely that it should be a hate song …”, Washington Post, 1969
“Tea, not pot …”, Washington Post, 1969
“a throwaway, a piece of garbage”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“never put pen to manuscript, it is anyone’s guess …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“Lucky he was so good, really”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“John’s rhythms, so natural to his ear …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“‘That’s bloody silly, isn’t it?” he said …”, All You Need Is Ears (Martin), 1979
“I turned the cluck-cluck of the chicken into the sound …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“That was when I knew that John liked it …”, It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (Taylor), 1987
“The only real version of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the mono …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“musical orgasm”, Making Of Sgt Pepper (ITV), 1992
“George got quite annoyed with me actually …”, Recording The Beatles (Ryan et al.), 2006
“Did not fulfil expectations …”, Recording The Beatles (Ryan et al.), 2006
“George Martin had warned Richard and me …”, Here, There And Everywhere (Emerick et al.), 2006
“in the eighteenth century and after, was traditionally associated …”, Twilight Of The Gods (Mellers), 1973
“I heard that. I don’t think John had that in mind …”, Washington Post, 1969
“certainly as were were writing it, I was not attributing it …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“I didn’t copy the accident. Tara didn’t blow his mind out …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“pentatonic slip of a tune …”, Twilight Of The Gods (Mellers), 1973
“crushing poetry that opens ‘A Day In The Life’ …”, ‘The Music Of The Beatles’ (Rorem), 1968; Lennon Companion (Thomson et al.), 1987, p105
“beautiful little lick”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“I never thought the day would come …”, Beatles At The BBC (Howlett), 1996
“I think if the track had just been a rhythm track …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“I only have one rule and that is to play with the singer …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“The vocal wailings in the bridge of the song …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“Fill the Albert Hall, John”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“Pop music never really had a finer moment”, All You Need Is Love (ITV), 1977
“To attempt to record what we recorded …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“In order to cover ourselves I said we must do …”, George Martin And The Beatles, interview on CD release of “Red”/“Blue” (CD), 1993
“the princely sum of fifteen pounds”, All You Need Is Ears (Martin), 1979
“shows the rot setting in”, Revolution In The Head (MacDonald), 1994
“… from a cowboy in Edmonton to a soprano in Bayreuth …”, Radio Times, 22 June 1967
“At one point we accidentally made a curious sound …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“The time had come for experiment …”, All You Need Is Ears (Martin), 1979
“There was little specific comment on the separate parts of the programme …”, Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2007
“forced”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“‘tuned to a natural E’ is a line I remember …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997.
“One of them was sitting on the floor …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“I’ve never practised scales in my life”, Guitar Player, July 1990
“It just came alive. We Phil Spector’d it”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“Another McCartney. Smells a mile away …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“I defend it on the lines of nowhere else …”, Anthology (ITV), 1995
“There’s something about changing words I love …”, Sunday Times, January 1965
“John notices the radio has been turned off …”, ‘Love Me Do!’ (Braun), 1964
“Dylan got away with murder …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“Yellow matter custard, green slop pie …”, John Lennon In My Life (Shotton et al.), 1983
“the mystery and shit built around all forms of art …”, The Observer, 26 August 2007
“It’s a good game, I thought …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“They were both very unpleasant characters”, Through The Looking Glass
“I’m sure I’m not Ada, …”, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
“the sort of upper-class, fine rain …”, The Custard Stops At Hatfield (Everett), 1982
“the first line was written on one acid trip one weekend …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“I see what you’re trying to get out …”, Summer Of Love (Martin), 1994
“One penis, one vagina, one asshole …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“I had just these two lines on the typewriter …”, Rolling Stone, 23 November 1968
“You have to remember that anything we did …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“Getting quite excited about planning the television film …”, The Best Of The Beatles Book (Dean), 2005
“When Brian was alive you never had to worry …”, Shout! (Norman), 1981
“Paul would come in and edit in the morning …”, Shout! (Norman), 1981
“blatant rubbish …”, Beatles Forever (Schaffner), 1977
“Mal sucked his pencil waiting for more of Paul’s inspired words …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“In the end we had to send the trumpet players off for tea …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was then forgotten about …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“Brian was very enthusiastic about Magical Mystery Tour …”, The Best Of The Beatles Book (Dean), 2005
“I knew that we were in trouble then …”, Lennon Remembers (Wenner), 1973
“I wrote it in Cavendish Avenue on the harmonium …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“Paul then went back to his guitar and started to sing …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“almost a ‘re-make’”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“His detractors called him a fool …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“Saviours and gurus are generally spat upon …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“sent a guy out filming …”, Anthology (TV), 1995
“I was waiting around for Derek and Joan Taylor …”, I Me Mine (Harrison), 1980
“I waited and waited …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985