Pamela Courson death: see Chapter Ten, p. 222.
Bashlachev and Köllen: see Appendix, p. 303 and 305.
Eric Erlandson: quoted from his Letters to Kurt.
One: The Young Dionysians
Epigraph: Frazer, The Golden Bough.
William Wordsworth: ‘My Heart Leaps Up’.
Philip Larkin: ‘This Be The Verse’. Collected Poems. © The estate of Philip Larkin, 1983, 2003.
BJ background: author’s interviews and background reading, including Jackson, Brian Jones; Wyman, Stone Alone; and Norman, Symphony for the Devil.
BJ described as ‘an asshole’: Richards, Life.
Pat Andrews, Marlene Cole, Declan Connolly, Richard Hattrell, Peter ‘Buck’ Jones and Linda Lawrence: quoted from author’s interviews.
Lewis Jones: quoted from a 1971 BBC Radio interview, as reported by Jackson, Brian Jones.
JH background: author’s interviews and background reading, including Cross, Room Full of Mirrors.
Pernell Alexander, Anthony Atherton and Sammy Drain: quoted from author’s interviews. Thanks also to Tommy Henderson and Janie Hendrix. Other sources include JH’s FBI file (1961 arrests) and exhibits at the EMP Museum in Seattle.
JJ’s childhood: I consulted and quote from Laura Joplin’s book, Love, Janis. Background reading: Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise; Dalton, Piece of My Heart.
JJ laughed out of town: Dick Cavett Show, 25 June 1970.
Sam Andrew and John Byrne Cooke: quoted from author’s interviews.
Kerouac: On the Road.
JJ on her trips to Houston and Los Angeles: letter dated 14 October 1965, reproduced in Joplin, Love, Janis.
JJ on leaving Texas: Dalton, Piece of My Heart.
JM’s childhood and family background: I am indebted to his brother, Andy Morrison, whom I quote (save ‘hard streak’: Doors, with Fong-Torres, The Doors, from which I also quote his sister, Anne). Thanks also to Asher Dann and Vince Treanor (quoted). Background reading includes Hopkins with Sugerman, No One Gets Out of Here Alive; Riordan and Prochnicky, Break on Through.
JM on his parents and writing ambitions: Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969.
JM’s interest in Nietzsche and the Dionysian archetype: Doors, The Doors; Hopkins with Sugerman, No One Gets Out of Here Alive; Riordan and Prochnicky, Break on Through; Ray Manzarek, Light My Fire.
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy (trans. Walter Kaufmann).
JM arrested in 1963: Rolling Stone, 8 July 2004.
I also referred, generally in this section about JM, to discussions with Danny Fields, the Doors’ publicist at Elektra, Alain Ronay and Michael C. Ford (quoted on JM at UCLA).
JM’s draft history: Selective Services record.
Beach meeting with Manzarek: Manzarek, Light My Fire.
Lyrics quoted from ‘Moonlight Drive’ © Doors Music Co.
KC’s family history and early life: author’s interviews, including KC’s grandfather, Leland Cobain, and uncle, Chuck Fradenburg (both quoted); local enquiries in Aberdeen, Washington, and background reading, including the three principal Cobain biographies: Azerrad, Come As You Are; Cross, Heavier Than Heaven; True, Nirvana.
KC comment, ‘redneck logger town’: his Journals.
KC comment, ‘suicide genes’ and ‘over the death of Jim Morrison’: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven.
‘I Hate Mom …’ and Wendy Cobain quote: Azerrad, Come As You Are.
KC comment, ‘Every parent …’: ibid.
Divorce in America: my book, Seventies (Chapter One) and Frum, How We Got Here: The 70s.
‘Something in the Way’ by Kurt Cobain © EMI Virgin Songs, Inc.
KC, ‘He got married …’: About a Son DVD (Sidetrack Films, 2008).
Penny Fahey (née Lloyd), Bob Hunter, Warren Mason and Lamont Shillinger: quoted from author’s interviews. Thanks also to Phil Cameron, Victoria Fenton, Bonnie Lloyd, Stanley Targus and Andrea Todd (née Neathery).
Child of broken homes more likely to commit suicide: Grashoff, Let Me Finish.
Thanks to KC’s friend Mitch Holmquist for showing me the Young Street Bridge, and discussing his friendship with Kurt.
KC, ‘I’ve never taken sides …’: Journals.
Two: Daddy’s Girl
Epigraph: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Winehouse family history: thanks to Beryl, Betty, Carol and Jonathan Winehouse (who made available family records and documents and is quoted from author’s interviews).
Janis Winehouse on her similarity to AW: in conversion with the author, January 2012.
Mitch Winehouse on AW’s childhood: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter, including quotes, ‘She was mischievous …’
Beryl Winehouse: quoted from discussion with author.
Janis Winehouse, ‘She was always very cheery …’: Mail on Sunday, 19 August 2007.
Juliette Ashby: quoted from the Observer magazine, 22 April 2007. The author spoke to the boy in the playground story.
Lauren Franklin: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Mitch Winehouse meets Jane (second wife): Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter (no affair ‘for ages’).
Janis Winehouse on affair: Mail on Sunday, 19 August 2007; and telling the children: Mail on Sunday, 23 March 2008.
AW on father leaving home, ‘shady’: Guardian, 28 October 2003.
Mitch Winehouse bankruptcy (case 11845 of 1993): the High Court (Bankruptcy); London Gazette, 26 January 1994; and the Insolvency Service.
Mitch Winehouse’s changing addresses: company records and electoral registers.
Mitch Winehouse felt guilty: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Father sees song as a comment on him: ibid.
Lyrics from ‘What is it About Men?’ by Amy Winehouse, © EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
As Larkin wrote: ‘This Be The Verse’.
Susi Earnshaw School: thanks to Susi Earnshaw, quoted from interview with author, also to teacher Siobhan Bailey, and contemporaries Melissa Gillespie and Julia Vanellis, both quoted from interviews with author.
Janis Winehouse’s health: her interview with Mail on Sunday, 23 March 2008.
‘Your daughter…’: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter. Also AW’s birthday card.
Sylvia Young Theatre School: thanks to Susi Earnshaw, Sylvia Young, former students Ricardo Canadinhas and Amie Schroeter, all quoted from interviews with author.
Friendship with Tyler James and his background: thanks to Hamish Twist.
Piercings and tattoos: AW’s interviews (Rolling Stone, 14 June 2007, quoted) and author’s interviews with her tattooists: Henry Hate, Tomasz Skoczypiec and Mirek vel Stotker.
Moves to Guildown Avenue: thanks to neighbour, Mo Cansick.
Missing school: Q magazine, October 2011 (reproducing a 2007 interview in which AW also spoke about using anti-depressants).
Bill Ashton: quoted from interview with author.
BRIT School: thanks to Adrian Packer (quoted from interview).
Mitch Winehouse’s directorship of double-glazing companies and his disqualification: I refer to documents filed at Companies House in London, the register of disqualified directors held and supplied by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (Case 853/2000), and my correspondence with David Rubin & Partners, who were the liquidators of City Savings & Loans Ltd, with thanks to David R. Stephenson. Thanks also to Glen Day, who served on the liquidation committee. I also refer to Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Nick Shymansky described his introduction to AW in the BBC Radio 2 documentary Amy Winehouse: Singer, 25 July 2012 (quoted).
AW’s ambition, to ‘live like the bombshell I really am’: from her 2001 notebook, reproduced in the Sun, 28 December 2010.
Three: The Mad Ones
Epigraph: Kerouac, On the Road.
Pat Andrews, Richard Hattrell, Linda Lawrence and Andrew Loog Oldham: quoted from interviews with the author.
Keith Richards and Bill Wyman: quoted from their memoirs (Life and Stone Alone).
JH letter (15 Dece
mber 1961): EMP Museum.
Ruse to get out of army: Cross, Room Full of Mirrors.
Bobby Womack: quoted from Murray, Crosstown Traffic.
David Brigati and John Hammond Jr: quoted from author’s interviews.
Linda Keith help: Richards, Life; Wyman, Stone Alone.
JJ letter to Peter De Blanc, on her ‘gay period’ and hopes for happiness: in Laura Joplin, Love, Janis. Also Linda Gottfried quote.
JJ, ‘I wanted to smoke dope …’ and on playing onstage with Big Brother: Dalton, Piece of My Heart.
Sam Andrew and Bob Seidemann: quoted from author’s interviews.
Ray Manzarek’s acid experiences and conversation with JM: Manzarek, Light My Fire.
John Densmore background and quotes: Densmore, Riders on the Storm.
Britt Leach: quoted from author’s interview.
Admiral Morrison: quoted from a letter to the Florida Probation and Parole Commission, in documentary, When You’re Strange (Wolf Films/Strange Pictures, 2009). Thanks also to Andy Morrison.
Robby Krieger’s defining event: Doors, The Doors.
JM gets out of draft: his Selective Service record, and Densmore, Riders on the Storm; report that JM posed as homosexual: Hopkins, with Sugerman, No One Gets Out of Here Alive.
Dickie Davis, Enid Graddis and Ronnie Haran: quoted from author’s interviews. Thanks also to Mirandi Babitz.
‘little girls in their Hollywood bungalows’: ‘LA Woman’ by the Doors, © Doors Music Co. LLC.
Evening in New York: Densmore, Riders on the Storm.
KC and Aunt Mari: Nick Broomfield’s documentary, Kurt and Courtney (Optimum Releasing, 2002).
KC’s arrest for trespass: author’s interview with Lamont Shillinger; also police records.
KC on first trying heroin: quoted in Azerrad, Come As You Are.
Ryan Aigner, Penny Fahey (née Lloyd) and Mitch Holmquist: quoted from author’s interviews.
Krist Novoselic on KC: Novoselic, Of Grunge and Government.
KC’s Christmas card: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven.
Mitch Winehouse on his daughter’s new career: quoted from Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
‘wedding singer’: author’s discussion with Tibor Poor.
Stefan Skarbek: quoted from author’s interview.
Teo Avery and Gordon Williams: quoted from author’s interviews.
Lyrics from ‘Stronger than Me’ by Amy Winehouse and Salaam Remi, © EMI Publishing Ltd.
Nick Godwyn: quoted from The Times, 30 July 2011.
Cherry Westfield Ltd: company records.
Mitch Winehouse’s disqualification under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, Section 7, meant he could act as company secretary in 2002, but he was not allowed to take part in the management of a company until his disqualification expired in 2005.
Legislation: quoted from the 1986 Act; penalties described in the Act.
Examples of Mitch Winehouse advising his daughter: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Lou Winwood: quoted from author’s interview. Thanks also to Charles Moriarty, who took the cover photo of Frank.
Break-up with boyfriend: AW, in Blues & Soul, 14–27 October 2003; and Sunday Times, 5 October 2003.
Juliette Ashby: quoted from the Observer magazine, 22 April 2007.
Four: Success
Epigraph: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essay, ‘Early Success’, in The Lost City: Personal Essays 1920–40.
Keith Richards on BJ and fame: Jagger et al., According to the Rolling Stones.
Gered Mankowitz: quoted throughout from author’s interviews.
Wyman and Richards agreed on Jones’s contribution to ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’: Wyman, Stone Alone.
Linda Lawrence: quoted throughout from author’s interviews.
Pat and Linda would go to law: author’s interviews with Pat Andrews; Wyman, Stone Alone; press coverage including News of the World, 16 January 1966.
Zouzou: quoted from author’s interviews.
Keith Richards on BJ in the car: Richards, Life.
Andrew Loog Oldham on BJ: quoted from his memoirs, Stoned and 2 Stoned; also author’s interview.
Zoot Money: quoted throughout from a discussion with the author.
Richards, nasty to BJ: Richards, Life.
BJ’s threats to commit suicide: described in biographies, including Jackson, Brian Jones, and Davis, Old Gods Almost Dead, which documents him cutting his wrist in 1964.
Seneca: quoted from Seneca, On Anger. Seneca’s death is detailed by Tacitus.
Alvarez: quoted from Alvarez, The Savage God.
Marianne Faithfull: quoted from her memoir, Faithfull.
BJ meets Pallenberg: author’s interviews; Norman, Symphony for the Devil.
Ron Schneider: quoted from interview with author.
JH arrives in London: author’s interviews; Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes; Mitchell, The Hendrix Experience; Redding, Are You Experienced?
Trip to Morocco: Richards, Life (quoted).
Prince Stash: quoted from author’s interviews and correspondence.
Trip to New York: author’s interviews with Deering Howe (quoted) and others. Also Cross, Room Full of Mirrors, and www.doorshistory.com.
The Doors’ success: thanks to Steve Harris.
Monterey Pop Festival: the author referred to the DVD box set of D. A. Pennebaker’s festival film, The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation/Pennebaker Hegedus Films Inc., 2002), from which Townshend is quoted. Also author’s interviews with performers and participants.
Al Wilson background and death: his death certificate; Rolling Stone, 1 October 1970; de la Parra, Living the Blues (quoted).
John Byrne Cooke: quoted from author’s interviews.
Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan, background and death: death certificate; report of death in Rolling Stone, 12 April 1973; McNally, A Long Strange Trip; author’s interviews.
Dr Johnson: Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Danny Fields on JM: author’s interview.
JM on photos: Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969.
JM’s family find out about his celebrity: author’s interview with Andy Morrison (quoted).
Admiral Morrison makes contact: quoted from his letter to the Florida Probation and Parole Commission, in documentary, When You’re Strange (Wolf Films/Strange Pictures, 2009).
Clara Morrison tries to meet JM: author’s interviews with Asher Dann, Steve Harris and Andy Morrison (all quoted).
Five: Kurt and Courtney, Amy and Blake
Epigraph: Song of Solomon 8:6.
Jason Everman: quoted from author’s interview.
Everett True: Nirvana.
KC in Rome: Azerrad, Come As You Are.
KC on self-image and decision to use heroin: Journals.
KC consults doctors: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, and Journals.
Mick Jagger on the rock-star life: Jagger et al., According to the Rolling Stones.
Danny Goldberg on KC: quoted from author’s interview.
Michael Maska: quoted from author’s interview.
Sales of Nevermind: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Eric Erlandson: quoted from author’s interview.
Courtney Love background: the principal Cobain/Nirvana biographies, profiles published in Vanity Fair (September 1992), Rolling Stone (15 December 1994), in which Love discusses her early life. I also corresponded with her father, Hank Harrison. Courtney Love didn’t respond to requests for an interview. Additional background on Harrison’s Grateful Dead connection: McNally, A Long Strange Trip.
Chuck Fradenburg and Leland Cobain on Courtney Love: quoted from author’s interviews.
Stefan Skarbek: quoted from author’s interview.
Jonathan Winehouse: quoted from author’s interviews.
AW’s comments about fellow artists: (London) Evening Standard, 18 August 2004, Sunday Times (5 October 2003), and Observer Music Monthly (January 2004).
One musician believed AW drew on her experience as a journalist: author’s interview with band member Aaron Liddard.
Nick Godwyn: quoted from The Times, 30 July 2011.
Gordon Williams: quoted from author’s interview.
Drinking at the Good Mixer: thanks to John and Sarah Hurley, and Bradley Leckie. Thanks also to local market stallholders and shopkeepers.
AW quoted from the liner notes of Back to Black on the book group.
First attempt to get AW into rehab: I take Mitch Winehouse’s version in Amy, My Daughter, though it is contradicted by Godwyn, in The Times, 30 July 2011.
Lyric quoted from ‘Rehab’ by Amy Winehouse © EMI Music Publishing.
Blake’s background: sources include author’s meeting and correspondence with Blake Fielder-Civil (quoted); local enquiries, public records and previously published accounts including his mother’s comments in the Mail on Sunday (1 Sept 2007 and 17 Aug 2012) and on the Jeremy Kyle television show.
AW tattoos: thanks to Henry Hate, who applied the ‘Cynthia’ and ‘Daddy’s Girl’ tattoos.
Blake’s friend told him he was ‘too young and the wrong colour for [AW]’: Blake Fielder-Civil to author.
Lyrics quoted from ‘Back to Black’ by Amy Winehouse © EMI Music Publishing.
Lyric quoted from ‘Wake Up Alone’ by Amy Winehouse © EMI Music Publishing.
Lyric quoted from ‘You Know I’m No Good’ by Amy Winehouse © EMI Music Publishing.
Thanks to Vidia Patel and other shopkeepers in Camden.
National Gallery meeting and nicknames: Blake Fielder-Civil to author.
Further tattoos: thanks to Eclipse in Camden Town, Edyta Lydon and Mirek vel Stotker. The author also discussed tattoos with Blake Fielder-Civil.
Six: Excess
Epigraph: Hill (ed.) Johnsonian Miscellanies, Vol. II.
JH and JJ have sex backstage: reported in Cross, Room Full of Mirrors, and elsewhere. JJ quoted in Friedman, Buried Alive, boasting of her conquests.
Anthony Atherton: quoted from author’s interviews.
Noel Redding: Redding, Are You Experienced?
Amanda Lear: quoted from author’s interview. Ms Lear’s gender at birth has long been speculated upon (by Ian Gibson, for example, in The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali). She denies having been born male.
BJ’s 1967 court case and appeal: author’s interview with Prince Stash (quoted) and press reports including The Times, 13 December 1967.
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