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
Sutherland, Elizabeth Stanley “Mater,” 10, 27–28, 36, 42, 85
George Smith’s death and, 70
JL’s twenty-first birthday, 245
Julia’s death and, 148
Yoko Ono and, 610, 611
Sutherland, Robert (Bert), 27, 36, 42, 85
George Smith’s death and, 70
JL’s twenty-first birthday, 245
Julia’s death and, 148
Yoko Ono and, 610
Swanson, Gloria, 756
“Sweet Little Sixteen,” 746
Sytner, Alan, 97
Taj Mahal, 579
Takis, Nicholus, 495
Talley, Nedra, 345
Tarbuck, Jimmy, 35, 69, 325–326
“Taste of Honey,” 295
Taupin, Bernie, 740
“Taxman,” 433–434
Taylor, Alistair, 507
Taylor, Derek, 370–371, 496–497, 504, 605, 607, 642, 661
Apple Corps and, 538, 560, 564
Bardot meeting and, 563
Beatles’ breakup and, 644–645
JL and Yoko Ono and, 549, 595
Klein and, 601
Taylor, Ernest R., 60, 78, 94
Taylor, James, 584, 601
Taylor, Joan, 496–497, 549, 605
Taylor, Ted “Kingsize,” 173, 291
Teddy Boys, described, 68–70
Ten for Two (film), 686, 694
Tetragrammaton, 575
Thank Your Lucky Stars, 292, 296, 298
That Was the Week That Was, 280, 317
“That’ll Be the Day,” 122, 142
“That’s My Life (and My Love and My Home),” 421, 511
“There’s a Place,” 295
“Thingummybob,” 564
“Think for Yourself,” 416
“This Boy,” 341, 352, 817
This Is Not Here exhibit, 683
“Those Were the Days,” 564, 584
Thurber, James, 64
Thurmond, Strom, 690
Tibetan Book of the Dead, 430–431
“Ticket to Ride,” 394, 396
“’Till There Was You,” 349
Time magazine, 343, 445
Times Literary Supplement, 360
Tit-Bits, 420
Tittenhurst Park, 615–617, 665–666
Ringo buys, 715
studio at, 670
“To Know Her Is to Love Her,” 345
“Tomorrow Never Knows,” 435–437
“Too Many Crooks,” 721
“Too Many People,” 668
Top Ten Club, Hamburg, 216–217, 228, 232–233, 238, 260–261
Top Ten Club, Liverpool, 221–222
Toronto rock ’n’ roll festival, 621–622, 629
Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, 246, 283
Track, 575
Traffic, 498
Transcendental Meditation, 505–506, 518–519, 532–538, 667
T-Rex, 701
Trudeau, Pierre, 632
“Twist and Shout,” 317, 357
Twist of Lennon, A (Cynthia Lennon), 769
Two Virgins, 540, 541–542, 574–575, 578, 620, 648, 660, 689
Two-Way Family Favorites, 292
Tynan, Kenneth, 523–525
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” 668
Unfinished Music No. 3—Life with the Lions, 602
Unfinished Paintings and Objects exhibit, 477
United States
1964 tours, 342–353
1966 tour, 445–446, 450–454
atmosphere in early 1970s, 681–682
government investigates JL, 688–701, 707–709
JL’s immigration issues, 604–606, 647–649, 676, 718, 732–734, 755–756
Up Your Legs Forever (film), 660
Variety Club of Great Britain, 358
Vaughan, Ivan, 74, 560
childhood of, 43–45, 51, 60
McCartney and, 107
Quarrymen and, 91, 96, 103
Vickers, Lynton, 26
Vietnam, 429, 627, 681–682
Village Voice, 685
Vincent, Gene, 99, 162, 175, 176, 268, 282
Vincent, Rabiah, 806
Vollmer, Jurgen, 212, 234, 245, 746
Voorman, Klaus, 235, 267–268, 306, 422, 423, 466, 727
“Cold Turkey” and, 619
early Beatles and, 210–212, 215
Everson Museum exhibit and, 683
“Instant Karma” and, 634
“It Don’t Come Easy,” 670
on JL and concerts, 431–432
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 649
Oldies and Mouldies, 738
Revolver cover and, 437–438
at Toronto rock ’n’ roll festival, 621
“Wait,” 416
“Walking on Thin Ice,” 806
Waller, Gordon, 429–430
Walley, Nigel “Walloggs”
career choices of, 110
childhood of, 43–45, 51, 52
education of, 59–65
JL’s music and, 89
Julia’s death and, 145, 147, 152
McCartney and, 117
Quarrymen and, 91, 93, 96–97, 139, 142
Walls and Bridges, 735–736, 738, 743
Walters, Lu, 209
Washington Coliseum, 350
“Watching the Wheels,” 794, 812, 815
Watergate hearings, 733–734
“We Can Work It Out,” 427
“We Love You,” 502
Webb, Cynthia, 729
Weberman, A. J., 685–686
Wedding Album, 626
Weedon, Bert, 305
Weiner, Jon, 689, 696
Weissleder, Manfred, 290
Welch, Bruce, 310
Wenner, Jane, 648
Wenner, Jann, 648, 656–659, 660
West, Keith, 498
“What Goes On?,” 416
“Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” 736, 738–739
Wheeler, Cecil, 595
“When I’m Sixty-four,” 122, 491
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” 576
Whitaker, Robert, 444
White, Alan, 621, 634
White Album, 555–557, 570–573, 575–577
Who, 412, 579
“Who Has Seen the Wind?,” 635
“Whole Lotta Yoko,” 579
Wildes, Leon, 691–694, 700–701, 707, 732–734, 748, 755–756
Williams, Allan
Beatals, Parnes and, 173–178
Beatles and, 187–189, 242–243
Beatles in Hamburg and, 194–195, 208
failed club of, 221–222
Silver Beetles and, 185
Williams, Beryl, 174, 194, 195
Williams, Hank, 91
Williams, Taffy, 17, 483, 510, 569
Wilson, Brian, 480
Wilson, Harold, 399, 632
Wilson Hall, 116–117, 137, 163
Wings, 702–703, 729, 743, 782
Wirgman, Jane, 365–366, 367–368, 390–393, 402
“With a Little Help from My Friends,” 491, 498
With the Beatles, 318–319, 324
“Within You Without You,” 496, 657
Wolf, Richard, 211
Wolfe, Tom, 360, 516, 660
“Woman,” 794, 796, 815–816
“Woman Is the Nigger of the
World,” 698–699, 700
Women’s Lib movement, 662–663
Wonder, Stevie, 686
Wood, Charles, 394, 395, 456, 457
Woodbine, Lord, 194, 195
Woodstock rock festival, 619, 620–621, 630
Wooler, Bob, 221–227, 252, 294, 310, 366
beaten by JL, 310–311
“Word, The,” 419
“Words of Love,” 393
“Working Class Hero,” 651, 655
World of John and Yoko, The (film), 629–630
World War II, 11–16
“World Without Love,” 430
World’s Fair, 292
Wrapping Piece event, 520
Wycherly, Ron. See Fury, Bill
Yasuda, Zenjiro, 469–470, 762
“Ya-Ya,” 736
Ye Cracke pub, 132–134
“Yellow Submarine,” 434, 450
Yellow Submarine (film), 561
“Yer Blues,” 534, 556, 576, 579, 622
“Yesterday,” 398–399, 440, 767–768, 782
“Yesterday”…And Today, 444–445
Yippies, 685–687
Yoko at Indica exhibit, 477
Yoshikawa, Takashi, 773, 789
You Are Here exhibit, 562–563
“You Can’t Catch Me,” 719, 746
“You Can’t Do That,” 375
“You Never Give Me Your Money,” 613
“You Won’t See Me,” 416
Young, Roy, 260, 265, 266
Young Americans, 747–748
“Your Mother Should Know,” 529
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” 398, 815
Zappa, Frank, 480
Zapple, 602
About the Author
PHILIP NORMAN is an award-winning novelist and biographer who, in 1969–70, was assigned to cover from the inside the breakup of the Beatles’ own business utopia, Apple Corps. He is the author of Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly, and many other books. He lives in London.
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FICTION
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Wild Thing
The Skaters’ Waltz
Words of Love
Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
BIOGRAPHY AND JOURNALISM
The Stones
The Road Goes On Forever
Tilt the Hourglass and Begin Again
Your Walrus Hurt the One You Love
Awful Moments
Pieces of Hate
The Age of Parody
The Life and Good Times of the Rolling Stones
Elton John
Days in the Life: John Lennon Remembered
Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly
PLAYS
The Man That Got Away
Words of Love
Credits
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Jacket photograph: John Lennon in New York City, 1974 © Bob Gruen
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