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visits JL in Los Angeles, 729–730

visits JL in New York, 735

McCartney, Mary, 103–104

McCartney, Michael, 104, 123, 283

McCartney, Paul, 74, 191, 360.
See also
Beatles; McCartney, Paul, songwriting of

appearance of, 465

Apple Corps and, 539, 560, 564, 589, 599–600

arrested in Japan, 787

arts scene and, 429–430, 455

“Ballad of John and Yoko” and, 599

Barrow on, 298

career plans before Beatles, 190, 220, 226

childhood of, 103–104, 120

commitment to Beatles, 580–581

Concerts for Kampuchea, 787

Cynthia Lennon and, 546

deported from Germany, 217–218

early stage name of, 180

Get Back/Let It Be
project, 643–644

guitar practice, 119–121

on “Help!,” 397–398

JL and, 118–124, 668–669, 671–672, 702–703, 730, 771, 782–783

on JL and Epstein, 307

JL and Inder, 273

JL on, 657–658

JL’s leaving Beatles and, 622–624

JL’s marriage to Cynthia and, 277

JL meets, 102–103, 106–109

Julian and, 546, 565–566

Julia’s death and, 152–153

LSD and, 492, 498–499

Mann on music of, 319–321

marriage of,
see
McCartney, Linda Eastman

MBE, 407

moves to London, 324, 385

moves to St. John’s Wood, 436–437

paternity suit against, 367

on playing at the Cavern, 229–230

Quarrymen and, 109, 116–117, 136

Revolver
and, 434–435

Ringo
and, 715

sues Beatles & Co., 656, 663–665

Sutcliffe and, 203–204, 237–238

Sutcliffe’s death and, 264

Transcendental Meditation and, 505–506, 536

twenty-first birthday of, 309–310

visits JL in New York, 735

visits Paris with JL, 245

Yoko Ono and, 479, 552, 553, 571

McCartney, Paul, songwriting of

after Beatles, 643–645, 668, 702–703, 729–730, 743, 782

credits and, 296–297

early, 121–122, 140–141

Hard Day’s Night
, 355–356

other artists and, 302–303, 304–305

pressures of, 340–341

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
, 487–488, 490–491

working methods, 386, 409–411

McClinton, Delbert, 281

McFall, Ray, 225, 227–228, 243

McGuinn, Jim, 426

McKenzie, Phyllis, 159, 160

McKern, Leo, 395

McKinnon, Duncan, 181

McLuhan, Marshall, 632

“Mean Mr. Mustard,” 613

Melody Maker
, 445, 496, 701, 702, 800

Mendips

Beatles fans at, 302, 389

boarders at, 28–29, 38, 54

Merry Pranksters, 516

Mersey Beat
, 240–242, 250, 276, 282

Metzner, Ralph, 430

MI5, 694–695

Michael X (Michael Malik), 636–637, 665, 752

“Michelle,” 419

Mike Douglas Show
, 687, 726

Mike Sammes Singers, 530

Miles, Barry, 120–121, 430, 436–437, 455, 602

Miller, Jonathan, 280, 455

Milligan, Spike, 65

Mills, Gordon, 420

Mind Games
, 711, 715, 718

Mintz, Elliot

on JL and McCartney, 771–772

JL and Yoko Ono in Japan and, 758–760

on JL in last years, 764, 766, 768, 769, 770, 784

JL in Los Angeles and, 713–721, 724–731

Mirabelle
, 323–324

Miscampbell, Norman, 360–361

“Misery,” 295, 305

Mitchell, John, 690, 733, 734

Modern Jazz Quartet, 584

Mohammed, Russell Jeffrey, 131–133, 135, 153, 155, 156, 220

Monopoly, 371, 388, 458

Montague, Lee, 458

Montez, Chris, 290, 304

Moon, Keith, 500, 629, 727, 729, 752

Moore, Bishop Paul, 706, 756

Moore, Dudley, 280, 455, 456

Moore, Tommy, 178, 179, 180, 184, 186–187

JL’s treatment of, 182–183

Morris, Desmond, 630

Morris, Margaret (Diz), 169

Mosspits Lane Infants School, 33, 44

Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Beatles awarded, 399–400, 407

JL returns, 627–628

“Mother,” 650, 655–656

Mothers of Invention, 480

“Mr. Moonlight,” 393

Murray, Mitch, 280

Murray, Rod, 134–136, 157, 159, 168, 220

Murray, Will, 6–7

Murray the K, 348

Museum of Modern Art, NY, 642

“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” 239, 240, 253, 344

“My Mummy’s Dead,” 651–652

“My Sweet Lord,” 655

 

 

Nelson, Ancher, 689

NEMS (North End Music Stores) shop, 104, 249–253, 282, 287

NEMS Enterprises, 324, 334, 370, 422, 438, 441, 458, 507, 592

Neville, Richard, 339, 670–671

New Musical Express
, 292, 294, 306, 566

“New York City,” 699

New York Times
, 697

New Yorker
magazine, 343

Newby, Chas, 221

Newmar, Andy, 796

News of the World
, 336

Newsweek
magazine, 343

Nicol, Jimmy, 364

Nielson, Rick, 796

Nigeria, 627

Nightingale, Anne, 558

Nilsson, Harry, 727–729, 731–732, 736

Niven, David, 771

Nixon, Richard M., 671, 681–682, 688–689, 733–734

“No Reply,” 393

“Nobody Loves you When You’re Down and Out,” 736

Northern Songs, 296, 326

becomes public company, 382

sold to Lew Grade, 603–604

“Norwegian Wood,” 418–419

Not Only…But Also
, 456

“Nowhere Man,” 417, 419

Number 4
. See
Bottoms Number 5
. See
Smile
“Number 9

Dream,” 736

Nutter, David, 594–595

 

 

“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” 576, 623

Obscene Publications Act, 493, 634, 642

“Octopus’s Garden,” 613

O’Grady, Maureen, 299, 301, 331

“Oh, Yoko,” 671

Oh! Calcutta!
, 524–525, 550

“Oh! Darling,” 612

“Oh My Love,” 671

“Old Brown Shoe,” 599

“Old Dirt Road,” 735–736

Old Grey Whistle Test
, 746

Oldenburg, Claes, 479

Oldham, Andrew Loog, 298–299, 338–339, 413, 430, 715

Oldies and Mouldies
, 719–721, 726–727, 729, 735, 738, 745

Olivier, Laurence, 524, 525, 543

“Only a Northern Song,” 561

Ono, Eisuke, 470–473, 660–661

Ono, Isoko, 469–472, 660–661

Ono, Keisuke, 471

Ono, Setsuko, 472

Ono, Yoko.
See
Lennon, Yoko Ono Ono Music, 700

Opium: The Story of a Cure
(Cocteau), 617

Orbison, Roy, 309

Ormsby-Gore, David, 350

Osmond, Humphrey, 426

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