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Julia’s death and, 147, 152

at Kenwood, 540

masturbation and, 73

Penny Lane and, 484

Quarrymen and, 89–90, 109, 118

smoking and, 66

Silver Beetles, 178–186

Simon & Schuster, 360

Simone, Nina, 567

Sinclair, John, 686, 689

“Six O’clock,” 715

Skiffle, 86–87.
See also
Quarrymen
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
(Lennon), 710

Slow Train Coming
, 778

Smile
(film), 541–542, 566, 620

Smith, Bill “Smell Type,” 90, 91

Smith, George

death of, 70–71

JL’s childhood and, 15, 30, 31–33, 42, 49, 58–59, 67

marriage to Mimi, 26–27, 28

Smith, Larry “Legs,” 517, 528

Smith, Mary Stanley “Mimi”

Alf Lennon’s return and, 380

Beatles and, 190–191, 232, 364–366, 367, 389, 402

correspondence with Wirgman, 361–362, 365–366, 367–368, 390–393, 402

Cynthia Lennon and, 158–159, 220, 260

Davies’s book and, 569

Epstein and, 252–253, 256, 258

family background of, 26–29

Fishwick and, 143–144, 152

George Smith’s death and, 70–72

Harrison and, 138

In His Own Write
and, 361, 362

JL’s accent and, 303–304

JL’s appearance and, 633

JL’s artwork and, 66–67

JL’s birth and, 13–14

JL’s career choices and, 110, 112

JL’s childhood and, 15, 25–26, 29–39, 45, 47, 49, 53, 59

JL’s continued contact with, 707, 709, 781–782, 800–801, 806

JL’s education, 114

JL’s financial support for, 302

JL’s first apartment and, 170–171

on JL’s handling of money, 389

JL’s marriage to Cynthia and, 276–277, 301–302, 323

JL’s MBE and, 407

JL’s move to US and, 677

JL’s music and, 88, 89, 92, 165, 292

Julia and Dykins and, 19–20

Julian’s birth and, 306

Julia’s courtship and marriage to Alf and, 9–10, 11

Julia’s death and, 152

McCartney and, 119

moves to Harbour Edge, 389–393

music and, 41, 43, 82, 83

Penny Lane and, 483

Quarrymen and, 106–107

Sean’s birth and, 749

Yoko Ono and, 558–559

Smith, Mike, 253

Smothers, Dickie, 728

Smothers, Tommy, 607, 728

Snowdon, Lord (Anthony Armstrong-Jones), 366, 402, 628

Some Time in New York City
, 698–700, 711, 714

“Something,” 612, 623–624

“Sour Milk Sea,” 564

Souvenir Press, 363

Spaniard in the Works, A
(Lennon), 400–402, 521

Spector, Phil, 345, 634–635, 643, 645, 649, 655, 683

Oldies and Mouldies
and, 719, 720, 721, 726–727, 729, 735

“Speed and Sport Illustrated” (Lennon), 49

Sperone Gallery, 799

Spinetti, Victor, 532, 576

In His Own Write
stage adaptation, 523–524, 543–544

Spinozza, David, 711

Yoko Ono and, 712, 726, 737, 739, 741

Spooner, Douglas, 664

St. Peter’s Anglican church, 45–47, 76

Stamp, Mr. Justice, 664–665

“Stand By Me,” 746

Stanley, Anne.
See
Cadwallader, Anne Stanley

Stanley, Annie Millward (grandmother), 10, 11, 15

Stanley, Elizabeth.
See
Sutherland, Elizabeth Stanley

Stanley, George (grandfather)

JL’s childhood and, 15, 29–30, 31–33

Julia and Dykins and, 18–19

Julia’s courtship and marriage to Alfred, 9–12

Stanley, Harriet.
See
Birch, Harriet

Stanley Stanley, Mary.
See
Smith, Mary Stanley “Mimi”

Stanshall, Viv, 517, 528

Star-Club, Hamburg, 265–269, 287, 290–292

Starkey, Maureen Cox, 455, 459, 546, 605

marries Starr, 385

Transcendental Meditation and, 505, 533, 536

Starkey, Ritchie.
See
Starr, Ringo Starr, Maureen.
See
Starkey, Maureen Cox

Starr, Ringo, 166, 173, 209, 271, 324, 385–386, 605.
See also
Beatles

All Things Must Pass
, 655

appearance of, 465

“Cold Turkey,” 619

Concert for Bangladesh, 674

Everson Museum exhibit and, 683

How I Won the War
, 459

JL and, 582, 725, 771

JL’s songwriting and, 410

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
, 649

on marijuana and music, 416

marriage of,
see
Starkey, Maureen Cox

McCartney
and, 644

McCartney’s lawsuit and, 663–665

music after Beatles, 599, 628, 643, 669–670, 715, 727, 738, 771

other interests of, 599

Transcendental Meditation and, 505–506, 533, 534, 536

visits JL in New York, 800

Yoko Ono and, 552, 553, 571

“Steel and Glass,” 736

Steele, Tommy, 84, 174

Steinem, Gloria, 397

Steiner, Georg, 194

Stevens, John Robert, 761

Stevens, Margo, 741

Stewart, Ian, 338

Stigwood, Robert, 507

Stills, Stephen, 670

Stone, Pauline Lennon.
See
Lennon, Pauline Jones “Strangers in the Night,” 440

Strawberry Field mansion, 39

“Strawberry Fields Forever,” 460–461, 481–482, 484–485, 658, 783

“Sun King,” 613

“Sunday Bloody Sunday,” 695–696, 699, 700

Sunday Night at the London Palladium
, 315

Sunnysiders, 98

Super Plastic Ono Band, 726

Sutcliffe, Millie, 180, 184, 225, 261, 262, 263, 264

Sutcliffe, Pauline, 154, 224, 263–264

Sutcliffe, Stuart, 133–136, 153–154, 168, 169–171, 183, 242–243

art work of, 174, 190, 236–237

Astrid Kirchherr and, 212–216, 233–237, 244, 261–262

Beatals and, 171–172

career plans before Beatles, 233

death of, 262–265

early stage name of, 180

haircut of, 235–236

in Hamburg, 195, 196, 203–204, 206, 207, 220, 221, 233

health of, 244–245, 261–262

JL and, 157, 159, 160, 214–215, 244

McCartney and, 237–238

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