AW gave few concerts: Nick Godwyn in The Times, 30 July 2011.
JH freaks out in Gothenburg: Redding, Are You Experienced?; Mitchell, The Hendrix Experience. Redding, on drug use: Redding, Are You Experienced?
Contact with Al Hendrix and Seattle homecoming: author’s interview with Janie Hendrix (quoted); Mitchell, The Hendrix Experience; Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes.
Anthony Atherton and Sammy Drain: quoted from author’s interviews.
Steve Harris on death hoax: author’s interview.
Robby Krieger on JM’s suicidal depression: Doors, The Doors.
Dickie Davis: quoted from author’s interview.
New Haven incident: author’s interview with Vince Treanor (quoted); various published accounts.
Lines quoted from ‘The Celebration of the Lizard’ © 1968 Doors Music Company.
Mirandi Babitz and Clem Floyd: quoted from author’s interviews.
JM on pressure to record: Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969.
Deering Howe on JM: author’s interviews. The author also spoke to Bob Neuwirth.
JM at Steve Paul’s Scene: author’s interviews with Harvey Brooks, Asher Dann, Steve Harris and Danny Fields (quoted). I also referred to Friedman, Buried Alive; Davis, Jim Morrison; Doors, The Doors; interviews with Sam Andrew (quoted).
JM hit Bill Graham: Graham, Bill Graham Presents.
John Simon: quoted from Buried Alive.
Robert Crumb: quoted from correspondence with the author.
JM’s nervous-breakdown conversation: Manzarek, Light My Fire.
BJ backstage at the Roundhouse: author’s interview with Zouzou.
BJ’s second bust and quote: Daily Sketch, 27 September 1968.
JM in Amsterdam: author’s interview with Vince Treanor (quoted).
Jagger on BJ: Jagger et al., According to the Rolling Stones.
Beggars Banquet food fight: Wyman, Stone Alone; Norman, Symphony for the Devil.
Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus: author’s interview with Michael Lindsay-Hogg; Lindsay-Hogg, Luck and Circumstance; and DVD of the show.
Wendy O’Connor’s letter: Daily World, 11 November 1991. She makes plain, in Azerrad, Come As You Are, that she ejected Kurt from the family home.
KC on using heroin with Courtney/ODs: Azerrad, Come As You Are.
JJ’s doctor warned her: Friedman, Buried Alive.
Danny Goldberg and Michael Maska on KC at Saturday Night Live: quoted from author’s interviews.
David Grohl: quoted from Azerrad, Come As You Are.
Kurt and Courtney marry: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven; True, Nirvana: The True Story.
KC intervention and Twelve Steps Programme: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven; author’s interviews.
AA programme: Alcoholics Anonymous, www.aa.org.
KC contemplates suicide by gunshot: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven. Suicide background from Johnstone (ed.), Companion to Psychiatric Studies; Stone, Suicide and Attempted Suicide; gunshot suicide statistics are from Stone.
Vanity Fair episode: quotations from Vanity Fair (September 1992). Courtney Love’s online denial: reprinted in Cross, Heavier Than Heaven.
Suicide pact argument: Courtney Love’s interview with Rolling Stone, 15 December 1994.
KC threat to Hirschberg: Azerrad, Come As You Are.
KC tells Don (Cobain) to shut up: Cross, Heavier Than Heaven.
Lyric quoted from ‘Serve the Servants’ by Kurt Cobain © 1993 Virgin Songs/The End of Music BMI.
Seven: Distress
Epigraph: Kierkegaard, Either/Or, A Fragment of Life.
Patrick Alan and John Altman: quoted throughout from author’s interviews.
Cobden Club: Jewish Chronicle, 24 November 2005; author’s interview with Jonathan Winehouse (quoted).
Nick Godwyn: quoted from The Times, 30 July 2011.
Raye Cosbert becomes manager: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Don Letts: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Mark Ronson background: articles, including Evening Standard, 9 April 2010; New York, 22 April 2007. Ronson on ‘Rehab’: Independent on Sunday, 24 July 2011.
Jamie Talbot: quoted from author’s interview.
Lyric quoted from ‘Me and Mr Jones’ by Amy Winehouse © EMI Music Publishing.
Blake Fielder-Civil on AW first using cocaine: July 2009 interview, in documentary, Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story (Channel 5, 2011).
Mischa Richter: quoted from author’s interview.
Lou Winwood: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Aaron Liddard: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Nathan Allen: quoted from author’s interview.
Eating disorder: inquest evidence (second).
Dave Swallow: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Jay Phelps: quoted from author’s interview.
Heckles Bono: Johnstone, Amy, Amy, Amy.
Charlotte Church show and return to BRIT School: thanks to Lou Winwood.
Blake on AW’s drinking, etc.: Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story (Channel 5, 2011).
Adrian Packer: quoted from author’s interview.
Self-harming: Johnstone (ed.), Companion to Psychiatric Studies; Blake’s self-harming: to author. Thanks also to Aaron Liddard and Dave Swallow (both quoted).
Richey Edwards: see Chapter Eleven, p. 224–5.
Maurice Bernstein: quoted from author’s interview.
AW at Chateau Marmont: thanks to Stefan Skarbek.
AW on self-harming: Rolling Stone, 14 June 2007.
Spin photo shoot: video footage at www.spin.com.
AW and the Rolling Stones at the Isle of Wight: video film posted on YouTube.
AW meets Ray Manzarek: related to the author by the Doors’ (current) manager, Jeff Jampol.
Seizure: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Jonathan Winehouse: quoted from author’s interview.
At the Four Seasons: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter; Janis Winehouse, Mail on Sunday, 19 August 2007; Georgette Civil, Mail on Sunday, 1 September 2007.
At the Sanderson: author’s discussions with Blake, quoted from Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story (Channel 5, 2011), and widespread press coverage week ending 25 August 2007. AW to www.perezhilton.com, 24 August 2007.
Norway bust: Independent on Sunday, 20 October 2007; author’s interview with members of the tour party.
Maurice Bernstein: quoted from author’s interview.
Blake scored: Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story (Channel 5, 2011).
Zürich: author’s discussions with Blake Fielder-Civil. Foden quoted in the Daily Mirror, 25–26 July 2011.
Troy Miller: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Blake arrested: Daily Mirror, 9 November 2007.
Birmingham show: video posted on YouTube.
US website: www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com.
AW considered Doherty an ‘arsehole’: author’s interview with Sam Shaker.
Doherty to author: text messages, April 2012. In a subsequent interview with the Daily Mail (24 November 2012), he said he and AW had been lovers.
Blake angered when AW missed prison visits: in documentary, Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story (Channel 5, 2011) and in discussion with the author.
Alex Foden story: Daily Mirror, 25–26 July 2011.
Treated at Capio Nightingale: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter; press coverage including the Evening Standard, 25 January 2008.
Alex Winehouse: quoted from NOW, July–August 2011.
US sales of Back to Black: RIAA.
Move to Prowse Place: thanks to neighbour Bryan Johnson.
Attempts at cure/condition at Dog House: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Records with Remi after row with Ronson: NME, 3 December 2011.
Alex Haines’ account of affair: News of the World, 28 December 2008; Foden in Daily Mirror, 25–26 July 2011.
April 2008 assault case: Sun, 24 and 26 April 2008. Also News of the World, 27 April 2008.
June seizure: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Emphysema: second inquest, St Pancras, 2013.
Nelson Mandela show: Sun, 28 June 2008.
Glastonbury 2008: author’s interviews with Michael Eavis, Don Letts and Troy Miller.
Blake sentenced: Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2008.
‘Heated’ conversation with Lucian Grainge/persuaded to appear at V Festival: Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter.
Booed at V Festival: www.gigwise.com; footage of show posted on YouTube.
Doug Charles-Ridler: quoted from author’s interviews.
Berkeley Square Ball: author’s interviews with Patrick Alan and John Altman (both quoted).
Assault case: The Times, 25 July 2009.
Part Two ‘Death’
Epigraph: Captain Ahab’s last words, Melville, Moby-Dick.
Eight: In Which Brian is Entirely Surrounded by Water
Epigraph: Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.
Cotchford Farm: thanks to the owner, Alastair Johns.
A.A. Milne background: Thwaite, A. A. Milne, His Life.
BJ in the Priory: Wyman, Stone Alone.
Keith Richards recalls BJ’s contribution to Let it Bleed: Richards, Life.
Zouzou: quoted from author’s interviews.
BJ meets Anna Wohlin; she moves in: Wohlin, with Lindsjöö, The Murder of Brian Jones.
BJ ‘quits’ Stones: Richards, Life (quoted); Daily Express, 9 June 1969.
BJ pay-off: Norman, Symphony for the Devil; Davis, Old Gods Almost Dead.
BJ’s prescription drugs: medical records collected for the inquest, supplied by HM Coroner; cocaine use: Wohlin, The Murder of Brian Jones.
Les Hallett: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Events leading up to and including BJ’s death: based on the inquest bundle; quotations from Lawson, Thorogood and Wohlin: their sworn statements to police.
Amanda Lear: quoted from author’s interview.
Lewis Jones: quoted from Daily Express, 7 July 1969.
Pete Townshend remark: London Evening News, 3 July 1969.
Lines quoted from ‘Ode to LA While Thinking of Brian Jones, Deceased’ © Jim Morrison 1969.
Evidence heard at the inquest into BJ’s death: The Times and Daily Express (both 8 July 1969).
Pat Andrews: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Richards, on the ‘mystery’ of BJ’s death: Jagger et al., According to the Rolling Stones.
‘Brian Jones Death: New Probe’: Daily Express, 26 August 1969.
Linda Lawrence: quoted from author’s interviews.
Fitzgerald story: press coverage, including Weekend magazine, 14 July 1986, and inquest bundle.
Thorogood’s ‘confession’/dialogue: Rawlings, Who Killed Christopher Robin?
Thorogood dies/daughter’s denial: Sunday Times magazine, 21 August 2005.
Giuliano story: Giuliano, Paint it Black: The Murder of Brian Jones.
Anna Wohlin’s story: Wohlin, with Lindsjöö, The Murder of Brian Jones.
Trevor Hobley/Pat Andrews theories: interviews with the author and Independent on Sunday, 6 November 2005.
Janet Lawson changes story: Mail on Sunday, 30 November 2008.
Klein background: author’s research for Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney; Klein’s obituary, Independent on Sunday, 6 July 2009.
Lawrence on Klein: author’s interviews.
Pat Andrews: quoted from author’s interview.
BJ’s estate: Daily Telegraph, 15 May 1970.
Jagger’s wealth: 2013 Sunday Times Rich List (21 April 2013).
Nine: Nodding Out
Epigraph: JJ, quoted from Dalton, Piece of My Heart.
JH busted: FBI file and Rolling Stone report, 26 July 1969.
JH and friends using heroin: author’s interviews including with Deering Howe; Noel Redding, Are You Experienced?
Deering Howe: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Kozmic Blues Band: author’s interviews with band members, including Sam Andrew (quoted), Maury Baker (quoted), Brad Campbell and Snooky Flowers.
Sam Andrew’s London overdose: author’s interview.
JJ overdoses: Myra Friedman writes in Buried Alive that JJ told her doctor she overdosed six times in 1969.
JJ conversation in San Francisco: Dalton, Piece of My Heart.
War and Peace: 1932 Everyman translation.
John Byrne Cooke leaves JJ’s employ: author’s interview (quoted).
Dr Rothchild: Friedman, Buried Alive.
Alan Douglas: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Conversation with Bill Graham: Graham, Bill Graham Presents.
JJ’s 27th birthday letter: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis.
Holiday romance: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis; author’s interview with Lyndall Erb (quoted).
JJ on death: Friedman, Buried Alive; Rolling Stone, 29 October 1970.
High-school reunion: video of JJ’s Port Arthur press conference; author’s interviews with John Byrne Cooke and Lyndall Erb (both quoted); Friedman, Buried Alive.
Slaps Jerry Lee Lewis: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis.
Bob Gordon: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Harvey Brooks: quoted from author’s interview.
Miami: author’s interview with Vince Treanor; Doors, The Doors; Hopkins, with Sugerman, No One Gets Out of Here Alive.
Isle of Wight Festival: I referred to an interview conducted with Ray Foulk for my book, Seventies, quoting him; also, concert films Message to Love (Sanctuary Records, 1995) and Blue Wild Angel (Experience Hendrix, 2003).
Chas Chandler: quoted on Gothenburg; Brown, Hendrix: The Final Days.
Alan Douglas: quoted from author’s interview.
Mitch Mitchell: Mitchell and Platt, The Hendrix Experience.
Eric Burdon: quoted throughout from his book, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.
John Altman: quoted from author’s interviews.
Philip Harvey: quoted from Sunday Express, 13 August 1995.
Monika Dannemann’s version of events leading up to JH’s death: her various interviews, including Hello!, 26 February 1994.
JH death: inquest evidence (the documents and press reports in the [London] Evening Standard [28 September 1970] and the next day’s Daily Telegraph); death certificate; Brown, Hendrix: The Final Days.
Dr Bannister: quoted from The Times, 18 December 1993.
JJ on death of JH: Friedman, Buried Alive.
Landmark Hotel: author’s visit to the hotel (now the Highland Gardens Hotel). Thanks to general manager Jack Baklayan, also to John Byrne Cooke, former members of the Full Tilt Boogie Band and JJ friends.
JJ meets lawyer: author’s interview with Bob Gordon (quoted). The author also referred to JJ’s will.
Lyndall Erb: quoted from author’s interview.
Lyrics quoted from ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, Keith Prowse Music Pub. Co. Ltd.
Ken Pearson: quoted from author’s interview.
Peggy Caserta: quoted from her interview with the Biography Channel (Fallen Legends, undated); Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise.
John Byrne Cooke, Lyndall Erb and Ken Pearson: quoted from author’s interviews on JJ’s last hours and death. I also referred to Rolling Stone, 29 October 1970; the death certificate; Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise; Laura Joplin, Love, Janis.
Sam Andrew on wake: author’s interview.
Brad Campbell: quoted from author’s interview.
Ten: The Crack-up
Epigraph: Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
JM on dying next: widely reported by biographers; for example, Davis, Jim Morrison.
JM sentenced in Miami: Doors, The Doors.
Vince Treanor: quoted throughout from author’s interview.
Pamela Courson’s LA apartment: the
author visited the apartment which has been preserved much as it was when Courson lived there.
JM’s will: copy, dated 12 February 1969.
Mirandi Babitz, Michael C. Ford and Steve and Nicole Harris: quoted from author’s interviews.
Paul Rothchild: quoted from, Doors, The Doors.
New Orleans show: in his memoirs John Densmore says he merely spoke to JM when he sat down on his drum riser. It is reported elsewhere – in Davis, Jim Morrison, for example – that Densmore pushed JM off the riser.
Jac Holzman: quoted from documentary Mr Mojo Risin’: The Story of LA Woman (Eagle Vision, 2011).
Apartment at rue Beautreillis: author’s interviews and field notes in Paris; French TV documentary, Jim Morrison: les derniers jours.
JM’s lifestyle in Paris: author’s interviews and the major biographies of Morrison.
Zouzou: quoted from author’s interviews.
Notebook jottings: copy of JM’s last notebook.
Falls from hotel windows: Hopkins, with Sugerman, No One Gets Out of Here Alive.
Meeting Yepremian and Muller: author’s interview with Gilles Yepremian.
Frank Lisciandro: quoted from the documentary Mr Mojo Risin: The Story of LA Woman.
JM’s last conversation with John Densmore: Densmore, Riders on the Storm; also ‘slow suicide’.
Vince Treanor: quoted from author’s interview.
Philippe Dalecky: quoted from author’s interview.
‘I’m finally dead’: JM’s notebook, left behind: author consulted a copy.
JM spoke to Ronay of Nietzsche on suicide: King, July 1991. He had spoken to others on this subject: Davis, Jim Morrison.
Alain Ronay’s dealings with JM, Pamela Courson and the Paris authorities: based on my discussions with Ronay and interviews he and Agnès Varda gave to Paris Match, 25 April 1991. I also refer to an interview with Ronay in King, ‘Jim and I, Friends Until Death’, July 1991. Ronay is quoted from discussions with the author, except ‘but really wasn’t happy at all’, from King, and ‘He was 27 years old and never took drugs …’, from Paris Match. JM’s chest and breathing problems: Pamela Courson’s police report; Davis, Jim Morrison.
Nietzsche’s epigram: The Basic Writings of Nietzsche; Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Agnès Varda: quoted from Paris Match, 25 April 1991.
Pamela Courson on her and Jim using heroin: as quoted by Ronay in Paris Match, 25 April 1991.
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