“made of bits of wood and an old oscilloscope”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“There were a lot of stories in the newspapers then …”, Rolling Stone, 1986
“The Beatles as nature intended …”, NME, 19 April 1969
“He got on the electric piano and straightaway …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“His work on ‘Get Back’ alone …”, Anthology (TV), 1995
“a great honour”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“They said, ‘Hey, take a solo.’ …”, Ticket To Ride (Muni et al.), 1989
“It was a very tense period …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“That’s me, singing about Yoko …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980 (full transcript from www.reocities.com/donaldsauter/yellow-submarine.htm)
“the most confusing and frustrating period …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“I’m not trying to get at you …”, Let It Be (film), 1970
“I said ‘What’s the words’ …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“ropey, shaky”, The Beatles Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“untitled, unplanned, highly tedious …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“many of the greatest show business names of today …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“rehearsing, jamming, getting their act together …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“showed how the break-up of a group works …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“I didn’t stop laughing for six weeks …”, Beatles At The Movies (Carr), 1996; Mojo 35, October 1996
“Let It Be was not the first bit of hype on a Beatle album …”, Melody Maker, 4 December 1971
“I just got so fed up with the bad vibes”, Musician, November 1987
“if he doesn’t come back by Tuesday, we get Clapton …”, ‘Martha My Dear – John John’
“On the recording we could use an acoustic …”, The Beatles Get Back (Cott et al.), 1969
“Try to tart it up a bit on those guitar breaks …”, The Beatles Get Back (Cott et al.), 1969
“This is the item with which the Beatles …”, Beatles Book 73, August 1969
“relaxed, imaginative harmony and construction”, The Times, 8 May 1970
“I was just having fun with words …”, Imagine (film), 1988 (from 1972)
“After we got to ‘wind glove’ I went berserk …”, The Beatles Get Back (Cott et al.), 1969
“purely inspirational and were given to me …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“When John is talking to George Martin …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“OM! – This Imperishable Word …”, The Māndūkya Upanis.had (Swami Krishnananda), 1996
“John would say ‘Give me an orange sound’ …”, In My Life (Howlett), 1990
“The original track was a real piece of shit …”, John Lennon (Coleman), 1985
“John and others not entirely happy about the finished recording …”, Beatles Book 57, April 1968
“The Beatles didn’t make a good record out of it …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“In the movie, when I got to do ‘Across The Universe’ …”, Lennon Remembers (Wenner), 1973
“I thought my communication was pretty good …”, John Lennon (Coleman), 1985
“I wanna hear this! …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“Letting it go is what the whole game is …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“‘I Dig A Pony’ by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids …”, The Beatles Get Back (Cott et al.), 1969
“heavy waltz”, Let It Be (film)
“piece of garbage …”, Playboy Interviews (Golson), 1980
“You all will have read that Dave Dee …”, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), 1988
“I hated everything about my ego …”, I Me Mine (Harrison), 1980
“I don’t personally enjoy being a Beatle any more …”, The Beatles (Davies), 1985
“literally invented …”, Guitar World, Jan 2001 (interviewed in 1992)
“This was a very difficult period …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“pentatonic roulades …”, Twilight Of The Gods (Mellers), 1973
“Skiffling ‘Maggie Mae’; Beatles really playing together …”, Sunday Times, 20 March 2005
“It’s coming down too fast, the note …”, The Beatles Get Back (Cott et al.), 1969
“always hated the words …”, Let It Be (film, 0:12:20), 1969
“It’s not a great song but it’s a great favourite …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“There were a lot of those songs at the time …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“the one that got away”, The Beatles And George Martin (CD), 1993
“Spector had used one take recorded five days earlier …”, http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_naked_truth_beatles/
“Dear Sir, In future no one will be allowed …”, Anthology (Beatles), 2000
“is rather like calling Atilla the Hun ‘impolite’”, Shout! (Norman), 1981
“Allen Klein was stirring it up something awful …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“A few weeks ago, I was sent a re-mixed version …”, Evening Standard, 22–23 April 1970
“cannot be trusted with the stewardship of the partnership …”, Many Years From Now (Miles), 1997
“the prattling of a second-class salesman …”, The Times (Klein obituary), 6 July 2009
“two of Apple’s cars had completely disappeared …”, The Guardian, 24 February 1971
“The genius of the Beatles lay in their songs …”, George Martin And The Beatles, 1993 interview on CD release of “Red”/“Blue” (CD)
“I can’t say, ‘Now I’m going to write.’ …”, Scene And Heard (Radio One), April 1972; Ringo Starr (Clayson), 1991
“all the normal twelve-bar principles …”, I Me Mine (Harrison), 1980
“the corporate vitality of The Beatles …”, The Times, 8 May 1970
“something of a mystery”, A Day In The Life (Hertsgaard), 1995
“slight”, Tell Me Why (Riley), 1988
“forgettable”, Revolution In The Head (MacDonald), 1994
“It’s a fuzzy, metallic sound …”, mixonline.com, January 2004