The Beatles (184 page)

“
prissy” all-white cover
: “I would be inclined to do a very prissy thing, almost like a limited edition.” Richard Hamilton in Cooper,
Blinds and Shutters.

“
the most important musical
”:
The Times
(London), 11/22/68.

EMI had considered rationing
: Syndicated news report, 11/21/68.

“
boring beyond belief
”: “A Briton Blasts the Beatles,”
New York Times,
12/15/68, p. 8.

“
a major success
”:
“The Beatles: Inspired Groovers,”
New York Times,
12/8/68, pp. 33–37.

THE BRILLIANT, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
:
NME,
11/9/68.

“
It was a bombshell
”: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 8/7/98.

“
the howl that went up
”: John Lennon, 1969 interview, in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 399.

“
because… her work is naked
”: Fawcett,
John Lennon: One Day at a Time,
p. 40.

“
What we did purposely
”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 302.

“
they all sat there
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 67.

“
slightly shocked
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 302.

“
Ah, come on, John
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 302.

“
Ringo and Paul hated
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/12/97.

“
a collection of bizarre sounds
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 374.

Disc, Melody Maker,
and
NME
: DiLello,
Longest Cocktail Party,
pp. 63–64.

The “togetherness had gone
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 58.

“
I decided to leave
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 69.

“
the boys became of no interest
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 41.

“
‘Goodbye to the boys’
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 354.

“
After six years’ work
”: Letter from Stephen Maltz, 10/23/68.

“
a pitiful £78,000
”: Goldman,
Lives of John Lennon,
p. 337.

“
The deal among the Beatles
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.

John, who had been tipped
: “Don Short… had warned him”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 368; also confirmed in author interview with Don Short, 8/11/97.

“
flushing handfuls of pills
”: Author interview with Pete Shotton, 1/19/98.

“
It was a measure of their popularity
”: Author interview with Ray Connolly, 8/7/97.

the bust “was a frame-up
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 368.

On November 8 John’s divorce
: “John Lennon Divorced,”
New York Times,
11/9/68.

“
When Paul got bored
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.

“
It wasn’t anything serious
”: Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/17/98.

“
broken off, finished,
”:
Dee Time,
BBC-TV, 7/20/68.

“
I loved [it in] New York
”: Author interview with Paul McCartney, 3/21/97.

“
Linda was showing me around
”: Ibid.

“
her womanliness”/“slight rebelliousness
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 517.

“
It was great living
”: Ibid., p. 521.

Capitol had shipped 3.5 million copies
: “Apple’s Full of Sauce,”
Washington Post,
12/29/68.

“
Apple wasn’t being run
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 324.

“
were all just living and drinking
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 155.

“
if it carries on
”:
Disc and Music Echo,
1/18/69.

£18,000 or £20,000
: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 155.

“
Somehow… [we] needed a firm
”: John Lennon, 1971 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 324.

“
stick to music
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 543.

The Beatles also… courted
: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/12/97.

collectively as “animals
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 146.

“
I think we should get back
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 372.

“
Our jaws dropped
”: Ibid., pp. 373–74.

“
give it a couple of months
”: Ibid., p. 374.

“
The thing I miss most
”: John Lennon, 1972 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 322.

George, however, “scoffed at” the idea
:
Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 528.

“
I’d hoped that by playing
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 322.

“
virtually absolutely definite
”: “Beatles ‘Live’ by Paul,”
NME,
10/12/68.

“
It will definitely be free
”: “Beatles Holed-Up, Ringo Movie,”
NME,
12/7/68.

“
I think the original idea
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 315.

“
go on an ocean liner
”: Paul McCartney in ibid.

“
being very expensive and insane
”: Norman,
Shout!,
p. 357.

“
The idea was that you’d see
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 315.

“
a big barn
”: Ringo Starr in ibid., p. 318.

“
To be fair, no one had much enthusiasm
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/12/97.

“
stoned all the time
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 118.

“
going to try and create
”: John Lennon, 1976 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 317.

“
We put down a few tracks
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 118.

George… found it “stifling
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 316.

“
I had always let him
”: George Harrison in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 411.

“
Look, I’ll play whatever
”: George Harrison in
Let It Be
(film).

“
What am I doing here?
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 316.

“
That’s it… see you ’round
”: George Harrison in
Let It Be
(film), 1969.

“
Our reaction was really
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 316.

“
I think if George doesn’t come back
”: John Lennon in
Let It Be
(film); also in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 412.

“
the biggest disaster
”: D. Taylor,
Fifty Years,
p. 358.

“
We bought some huge computers
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 291.

“
the mixing console was made
”: Lewisohn,
Sessions,
p. 164.

“
very nasty twitter
”: Martin,
All You Need,
p. 174.

“
They were hopeless
”: George Martin in
Anthology,
p. 318.

“
You’d better put some equipment in
”: Martin,
All You Need,
p. 173.

mobile four-track mixing consoles
: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 533.

“
I don’t want any of your production
”: George Martin in
Anthology,
p. 317.

“
all those rumors
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 80.

“
terrible shit
”: Ibid., p. 81.

“
a bit like Martin
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 62.

“
The facilities at Apple
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 318.

Meanwhile back at home
: “Get Back” lyrics,
Abbey Road
demo.

putting out “negative vibes
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 316.

“
It was a very tense period
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 535.

“
a genuine plea
”: Ibid., pp. 535–36.

“
That’s me singing about Yoko
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 172.

“
I don’t think he wanted much
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 316.

the band to be “very childish
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 59.

he “didn’t believe in
”: “I don’t know when I realized I was putting down all these things I didn’t believe in.” Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 31.

“
just [doing] it like a job
”: Ibid., p. 51.

“
fed up with the same old shit
”: Ibid., p. 69.

He felt constrained
: “We were limiting our capacity to write and perform by having it fit into some kind of format.” John Lennon, 1971 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 317.

“
better than Picasso
” Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 430.

the others were “insecure
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 47.

“
sophisticated, intellectually
”: Ibid., p. 52.

“
Yoko had him under
”: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 8/8/97.

“
they started picking on
”: John Lennon, 1976 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 317.

“
I started to feel it wasn’t
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 316.

“
offset the vibes
”:
George Harrison in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 415.

“
the bullshit went out the window
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 318.

his crumbling relationship with John
: “John was with Yoko full time, and our relationship was beginning to crumble.” Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 538.

“
It was like having a guest
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
pp. 318–19.

Billy turned up at the studio
: “We were trying to figure out where we could have a concert.” Billy Preston in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 416.

“
a little bit puzzling
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 319.

“
Oh, that’s fantastic
”: John Lennon in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 278.

“
Nobody had ever done that
”: George Harrison, in
Anthology,
p. 321.

“
The Beatles had arranged for a camera
”: Author interview with Jack Oliver, 10/28/99.

“
Honestly, the music has got
”:
Let It Be
(film), 1969.

“
When [the police] came up
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 321.

“
If anybody wants to sing
”: George Harrison in
Let It Be
(film), 1969.

“
You know this is a small
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
pp. 370–71.

“
a distant resemblance to Buddy Hackett
”: Goldman,
Lives of John Lennon,
p. 328.

He’d met John once before
: “I met him at the
Rock and Roll Circus,
” Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 142.

“
broke, like Mickey Rooney
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 376.

In his exuberant autobiography
: D. Taylor,
Fifty Years,
p. 366.

“
nervous as shit
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 144.

“
the only businessman I’ve met
”: John Lennon, 1969 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 324.

“
One of the… things
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 42.

“
I knew right away
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
Apple to the Core,
p. 123.

Actually, the letter read
: Letter, John Lennon to Sir Joseph Lockwood, in
Anthology,
p. 324.

“
a human being”/“an animal
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
pp. 146–48.

a million-dollar advance
: “A figure that John repeated to me in the office the next day with pride.” Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 333.

“
the only one Yoko liked
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 324.

“
big-headed uptight people
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 67.

Paul was the one responsible
: “They all thought Paul was the one who was going to hold it all together.” McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 72.

“
all that Beatle stuff
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 138.

“
Paul began complaining
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 27.

Paul discouraged her from attending
: Ibid.

“
Because we were all from Liverpool
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 325.

“
fucked around by everybody
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
Apple to the Core,
p. 149.

it remained the top-selling album
:
Melody Maker, NME
charts.

“
it belied his innocence and honesty
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/12/97.

“
Let’s get them both together
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 324.

“
a piece of crap
”: Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 334.

“
I can’t tell you how much I’ve admired
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 150.