Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney (82 page)

Stuart Sutcliffe’s demise: author’s interviews with Astrid Kirchherr (quoted) and Pauline Sutcliffe, who is quoted from
The Beatles’ Shadow
; also the
Stuart Sutcliffe Retrospective
(University of Liverpool, 2009) and
Hamburg Days
(Kirchherr).

PM - ‘My mother died when I was 14 …’
- Shout!
(Norman).

Astrid Kirchherr quoted from author’s interview.

At the Star-Club: author’s background reading and interviews with, among others, Horst Fascher and Kingsize Taylor (quoted).

GM offers a contract:
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

Meeting GM:
All You Need is Ears
(Martin [quoted]).

The slow version of ‘Love Me Do’ can be heard on the
Anthology
(CD Vol. 1).

GM’s comment on Pete Best - ‘almost sullen’ - in interview for the DVD release of
A Hard Day’s Night
(Special Features).

PM’s comment on GM taking them aside: the
Anthology
(book).

Bob Wooler on Best:
Mersey Beat
(31 Aug. 1961).

Fan club: author’s interview with Frieda Kelly.

Trip to Manchester: Bobbie Brown’s letter reproduced in
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

Bill Harry quoted from author’s interview.

Dot Rhone is quoted from the
Daily Mail
(11 Oct. 1997) and
The Beatles
(Spitz).

Paul had VD: author’s interviews with Peter Brown, Horst Fascher and E. Rex Makin (quoted).

Dialogue between BE and Pete Best:
Beatle!
(Best).

PM’s call and comment about saving money:
Shout!
(Norman).

Neil Aspinall’s affair with Mona Best/birth of Roag: thanks to Roag Best (quoted). Suicide attempt:
Beatle!
(Best).

Ringo Starr (RS) background: author’s interviews; the
Anthology
(book);
The Encyclopaedia of Beatles People
(Harry) and
Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joke?
(Clayton [‘it was like joining …’]).

RS - ‘I can read, but …’ - the
Anthology
(book).

Mick Jagger quote: induction speech at the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame 1988.

Tony Barrow quoted from author’s interview.

GM and Richards quote:
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
(Lewisohn).

Recording ‘Love Me Do’: author’s interview with Andy White (quoted).

Rhone on ‘PS I Love You’:
Daily Mail
(11 Oct. 1997).

PM’s Lifeline: thanks to Frieda Kelly (quoted).

Iris Caldwell on PM and recalled dialogue: quoted from author’s interview.

First car: PM to the
Daily Mail
(24 Nov. 1984).

All Frank Ifield quotes to author. Background:
I Remember Me
(Ifield). NB: Ifield doesn’t remember the Liverpool Empire story the same way as Iris, but notes, laughing, that ‘they might have had a guilty conscience’.

Gerry Marsden quote to author.

GM - ‘You’ve Just made …’ -
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
(Lewisohn).

Ruth Lallemann quoted from author’s interview.

Mal Evans background: the
Anthology
(documentary).

Broken windscreen:
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

Beatle sandwich: the
Anthology
(book).

Break-up with Iris: quoted from author’s interview.

5: THE MANIA

Recording the first album:
All You Need is Ears
(Martin) and
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

Dick James deal: sources include Ray Coleman’s books
Brian Epstein
and
McCartney Yesterday & Today
; also
Shout!
(Norman) and the
Guardian
(13 Feb. 1965).

PM on the James deal:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

PM on the moment he knew he’d made it: interviewed by David Frost (26 May 1986), reported in
Club Sandwich
# 41.1

PM meets Jane Asher:
Radio Times
(2 May 1963) and her 9 Oct. 1965
TV Times
interview.

JL quote from
Mr Confidential
(Hutchins). PM told Hunter Davies for
The Beatles
that he had thought Jane a ‘rave London bird’. Thanks also to Alvin Stardust.

The Ashers at Wimpole Street: author’s interviews with Tony Barrow (quoted), Barry Miles and Lord St Germans. Background reading: articles about Asher in the
TV Times
(9 and 30 Oct. 1965);
Who’s Who
and
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
.

Background on Dr Asher: author’s interview with Miles and the
Sunday Express
(19 April 1964), reporting his disappearance.

Dr Asher’s suicide: death certificate (in which the cause of death is given as ‘Killed himself’)

Wimpole street literary associations:
Flush
(Woolf);
A Reader’s Guide to Writer’s London
(Cunningham) and Lord St Germans.

Speeding conviction:
Liverpool Echo
, 26 Aug, 1963, with thanks to Peter Hodgson and Kevin Roach at Liverpool Record Office.

21st party at the Epsteins’: author’s interviews with Billy Hatton and E. Rex Makin (both quoted);
Brian Epstein
(Coleman) and
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman). Also Barrow to author (quoted).

Mike McCartney goes into show business: his memoir,
Thank U Very Much
and author’s interview with a family member. Tony Bramwell quoted from author’s interview.

Tenerife holiday: Klaus Voormann in the Special Features DVD interviews of
A Hard Day’s Night
.

Pete Shotton on Lennon’s holiday with BE:
The Quarrymen
(Davies).

PM on John’s sexuality:
Brian Epstein
(Coleman).

Gordon Millings quoted from the Special Features DVD interviews of
A Hard Day’s Night
.

PM meets Denny Laine: author’s interview with Laine.

Final shows at the Cavern: author’s interviews with Frieda Kelly and Willy Russell (both quoted).

PM on writing ‘She Loves You’:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles). GM reaction to song from the Special Features section of the DVD of
A Hard Day’s Night
.

Trip to Greece and RS quote: the
Anthology
(book).

Green Street Flat:
The Beatles’ London
(Lewisohn).

Lennon-McCartney songs covered by others:
Club Sandwich
# 74. PM quoted from
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
(Lewisohn).

Meeting Andrew Loog Oldham (and background): author’s interview with Loog Oldham and his book
Stoned
. NB: Various versions of this story have appeared in print, including PM saying he and JL bumped into Jagger and Richards when they passed by in a cab in Charing Cross Road. Loog Oldham’s account is the most complete. Charlie Watts quoted from
According to the Rolling Stones
; Bill Wyman quoted from his book
Stone Alone
; Glyn Johns quoted from author’s interview.

Derek Taylor’s early interest in the Beatles:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor).

The Beatles on
Sunday Night at the London Palladium
: author’s interview with Bruce Forsyth (quoted); Godfrey Winn quoted from the
Sketch
(14 Oct. 1963); also
Daily Mirror
of the same date.

William Mann’s article:
The Times
(27 Dec. 1963).Beatlemania: the first use of the term in the British press appears to be as a headline to Vincent Mulchrone’s
Daily Mail
feature on 21 Oct. 1963, after which it was widely used by all newspapers.

Regarding Ed Sullivan seeing the Beatles at Heathrow, New York promoter Sid Bernstein told the author: ‘Sullivan said, “Who are these Beatles? ” He thought it was an animal act.’ Sullivan is quoted from
The Beatles Off the Record
(Badman).

The Royal Variety Show: author’s interview with Don Short (quoted);
Daily Mirror
(5 and 6 Nov. 1963); and
Daily Express
(5 Nov. 1963).

PM moves into Wimpole Street and his life there: author’s interview with Miles, and his book
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
; also
The Beatles’ London
(Lewisohn). Bramwell quoted from author’s interview.

JL on writing in the basement: to
Playboy
, collected in
The Beatles Off the Record
(Badman).

Ken Dodd quoted from discussion with author.

Lunch with Sir Joseph Lockwood:
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
(Lewisohn).

£ 2,000 a week: as reported contemporaneously in the
Daily Sketch
(14 Oct. 1963).

Oxfam: author’s interview with Lord Archer (quoted).

Wimbledon fan convention: author’s interview with Frieda Kelly. Neil Aspinall quoted from the
Anthology
(book).

6: AMERICA

The 1963
Beatles Christmas Record
: the recording.

Christmas show:
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn). Thanks to Liverpool broadcaster Spencer Leigh, who pointed out that girls were screaming for Gerry and the Pacemakers when he saw them on the same bill as the Beatles.

Paris shows: author’s interview with Mickey Jones (quoted). Thanks also to Jürgen Vollmer.

Jim and Mike McCartney visit:
Thank U Very Much
(McCartney).

GM quoted from his book
All You Need is Ears
.

PM on ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ going to number one in the US quoted from the
Anthology
(book).

RS’s comment on the plane to New York:
The Beatles: A Diary
(Miles).

Alan Livingston quoted from
All You Need is Ears
(Martin).

Blackpool rock litigation:
Daily Telegraph
(14 Dec. 1963).

Licensing deal: author’s interviews with John Fenton and Lord St Germans (both quoted).

DJ announcement:
America’s Century
(Daniel, ed.) and
The Beatles
(Davies).

Capitol Records spent money: the figure most often given is $ 50,000. In the
Anthology
(documentary) GH mentions $70,000.

Capitol PR campaign:
The Capitol Albums Vol. 1
liner notes.

Arrival in New York: documentary footage; press reports and author’s interview with Sid Bernstein (quoted).

The ‘turning point’: BE in
A Cellarful of Noise
.

BE at the Plaza Hotel:
I Should Have Known Better
(Ellis). The story of BE being photographed is described by Ross Benson in
Paul McCartney: Behind the Myth
. Thanks also to John Fenton (quoted).

PM - ‘We came out of nowhere …’ - the
Anthology
(book).

Train to Washington: Maylses brothers’ film
The Beatles: The First Visit
(Apple Corps, 1990); article by Al Aronowitz:
Saturday Evening Post
(21 March 1964).

PM asked by David English on train about illegitimate child, and PM’s quoted reply:
Paul McCartney: Behind the Myth
(Benson).

Erika Hübers (
née
Wohlers) is quoted from correspondence with the author. Also correspondence and interviews with her daughter.

A Hard Day’s Night
chapter subheading taken from the marquee of the London Pavilion. Also the DVD of the film, with its Special Features interviews, featuring GM interview (quoted).

Ringoism:
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

First use of grotty and fab:
Oxford English Dictionary
. NB: PM uses ‘fab’ in a letter dated 9 May 1962 (
Thank U Very Much
); and in
Mersey Beat
(20 Sept. 1962). Thanks also to Tony Barrow.

Richard Lester quoted from the DVD release of
A Hard Day’s Night
(Special Features).

Europe, Hong Kong and Australia: press including the
Saturday Evening Post
(15 Aug. 1964 [blood vessel]);
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor); the
Anthology
(documentary) and
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

At the Dorchester and dialogue and quotation:
Thank U Very Much
(McCartney); also
At the Apple’s Core
(O’Dell). John Lennon reunited with his father:
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman).

Mike McCartney on the ‘covenant’: his book
Thank U Very Much
.

McCartney Pension: author’s interviews.

Liverpool première: author’s interviews including Frank Foy (quoted); TV footage of the homecoming and press reports including
Mersey Beat
(16 July 1964);
Daily Mirror
(11 July 1964), and the
Saturday Evening Post
(15 Aug. 1964).

Anita Cochrane’s story: author’s interviews with Tony Barrow, Peter Brown and Anita’s half-brother Ian Pillans (all quoted); Anita’s interviews with the
Daily Mail
(31 May-2 June 1997) and family records, including her birth certificate which reveals the inconsistency of dates. I also referred to Anita’s interview with the
Daily Star
(1 Feb. 1983).

No father’s name on Philip Cochrane’s birth certificate: birth certificate.

The poem is reproduced from the
Daily Mail
(10 May 1997).

Derek Taylor wrote about the paternity claim in his book
Fifty Years Adrift
(quoted).

1964 North American tour hysteria: the
Anthology
(book) including GM quote;
The Beatles Book
and press reports including the
Daily Sketch
(20 Aug. 1964).