by Bob Spitz
* John took poetic license, adding the extra s to the name.
* “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” originally intended for the album, were left off, following EMI’s practice, when they were chosen as the double-sided single.
* On December 18, 1966, Browne ran his Lotus Elan sports car through a red light in Earls Court, smashing into a van and killing himself.
* “There are 4,000 holes in the road in Blackburn, Lancashire, or one twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey.” “The Holes in Our Roads,” Daily Mail, 1/17/67, p. 2.
* Having made just pennies an album up to January 1967, their royalty rate ballooned to 10 percent of the album’s wholesale price.
* By contrast, the Please Please Me album wrapped in a spry 585 minutes.
* Only Henry Grossman, LIFE’s man on the scene, wasn’t British.
* Peter Brown reports a similar, though somewhat more sensational, version of these events in The Love You Make. While Cynthia may well have alienated herself from the others, Joan Taylor says she confessed years later that “she hadn’t taken anything herself that night but had gone along with everything so that we would be comfortable.”
* Of all the people interviewed for this book, not one suggested otherwise.
* They recorded for Parlophone as the Scaffold.
* In other accounts, she described them as a green-and-white-striped gown and black silk kimono.
* In a subsequent Rolling Stone interview, he asks Yoko: “Was it my idea or yours?”
* Also referred to as Apple Merchandising.
* The theme from a British TV sitcom of the same name.
* Cynthia settled for £100,000 and custody of their son, Julian.
* Actually, the letter read: “Dear Sir Joe: I’ve asked Allen Klein to look after my things. Please give him any information he wants and full cooperation. Love, [signed: John Lennon].”
* Ray Connolly of the Evening Standard recalls that Paul cornered him at Apple, winked, and said: “If you don’t tell anybody, I’ll tell you all about it.”
* Jim McCartney had remarried in 1965.
CONTENTS
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Mercy
1. A Proper Upbringing
2. The Messiah Arrives
3. Muscle and Sinew
4. The Showman
5. A Simple Twist of Fete
6. The Missing Links
7. A Good Little Sideshow
8. The College Band
9. Chalk and Cheese
10. Moondogs and Englishmen
11. Hit the Road: Jac
12. Baptism by Fire
13. A Revelation to Behold
14. Mr. X
15. A Gigantic Leap of Faith
16. The Road to London
17. Do the Right Thing
18. Starr Time
19. A Touch of the Barnum & Bailey
20. Dead Chuffed
Mania
21. The Jungle Drums
22. Kings of the Jungle
23. So This Is Beatlemania
24. Once Upon a Time in America
25. Tomorrow Never Knows
26. In the Eye of a Hurricane
27. Lennon and McCartney to the Rescue
28. Into the Cosmic Consciousness
Mastery
29. Just Sort of a Freak Show
30. A Storm in a Teacup
31. A Very Freaky Experience
32. The Summer of Love
33. From Bad to Worse
34. An Additional Act
35. Good-bye to the Boys in the Band!
36. Disturbing the Peace
37. And in the End…
Endnote
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Applause for Bob Spitz’s THE BEATLES
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Photographs
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by Bob Spitz
Cover design by Mario J. Pulice; cover photograph © Bob Whitaker / Camera Press / Retna Ltd.
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