by Tim Riley
Decca, 154–60, 161, 167, 168, 172, 177–79, 204, 206–7, 226
Del Vikings, 61, 73
Dick Cavett Show, The, 527–29, 534, 540, 551, 568
Dickinson, Geoffrey, 284
Doggett, Peter, 535, 550
Domino, Fats, 49, 50, 53, 67, 414
Donegan, Lonnie, 45–47, 49, 53, 61, 68, 77, 136, 172, 238, 622
“Don’t Let Me Down,” 73, 304, 398, 399, 430, 437–38, 449, 450, 496
Double Fantasy, 481, 590–91, 610, 629–40, 650, 651, 660
Douglas, Jack, 567, 576, 629–34, 653, 654
Douglas, Mike, 540–44, 549
Dovedale Primary School, 30–34
Duchamp, Marcel, 323, 351, 392, 516
Dunbar, John, 303, 304, 323, 348, 378
Du Noyer, Paul, 118
Dykins, Bobby, 17, 20–24, 47, 56, 64, 82–84, 186, 623–24, 625, 658
Dykins, Jacqueline, 24, 29, 47, 82, 84, 186, 624
Dykins, Julia, see Baird, Julia Dykins
Dylan, Bob, 202, 234, 261, 265, 267, 268, 276, 282, 283, 286, 292–95, 299, 300, 309–10, 338, 412, 429, 433, 436, 502, 525–26, 547–48, 562, 581, 590, 620–22, 633
Eager, Vince, 95–96
Eastman, John, 450, 519–20, 560, 645
Eastman, Lee, 397–98, 441, 464, 512
Eastman, Louise Sara Lindner, 397–98
Eat the Document, 310
Eckhorn, Peter, 119–20, 121, 124
Edgecombe, John, 197
Egypt, 614–15
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 52, 222, 228, 229–30, 236, 237, 238, 240, 241–43, 245, 246, 254, 279, 280, 319, 357, 497
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (Wolfe), 319–20
Elephant’s Memory Band, 538–40, 542, 548, 552–53, 555–56, 587, 590, 631
Elizabeth II, Queen, 198–99, 220–21, 278, 462
Elliott, Anthony, 655
Ellis, Geoffrey, 139, 147
Ellsberg, Daniel, 492, 523–24
Emerick, Geoff, x, 303, 343, 405–9, 416, 486
EMI, ix–xiv, 151, 155, 156, 161, 168–71, 173, 174, 190, 191, 232, 270, 274, 306, 328, 407, 432, 447, 464, 469, 478, 518, 521, 560, 564, 586
Epstein, Brian, xii, 26, 139–62, 164, 166, 177, 188, 190, 192, 199, 210, 211, 224, 246, 248, 254–57, 259, 268, 269, 278–80, 290, 302, 307, 309, 312, 316–18, 328, 334, 338, 347, 358–66, 369, 398, 428, 442, 532, 570, 573, 607
Alf Lennon and, 251–52
American market and, 228–31, 233, 237, 238, 240–41
background of, 139–40, 151
Beatles’ contracts with, 148–49, 156, 175, 332, 359, 512, 519, 521
Beatles made over by, 149, 152–53, 180, 212, 285
and Beatles’ retirement from touring, 335–36
becomes Beatles’ manager, 145–46, 148
Best and, 183–86
Cynthia Lennon and, 183, 186–87, 213, 214, 234
death of, 363–66, 367, 377, 379, 383, 493, 511
discovers Beatles, 141–43
homosexuality of, 139–40, 146–47, 150–52, 175, 213, 215–16, 218, 364
JL’s holiday with, 213–18
JL’s relationship with, 139, 144, 147–48, 150–51, 174, 213–18, 249, 362–63, 364
Maharishi and, 361, 362
Marcos and, 314
Martin and, 167, 172–75
Oldham and, 202–3, 221
pregnancies and, 175–76, 218
publishing arrangements and, 191, 201
recording sessions and, 167–68, 174–75, 177–80
Starr’s marriage and, 270
Stigwood and, 332–33, 336, 360, 362
television appearances and, 202, 203, 223, 228, 238, 241, 247, 357, 358–59
Wooler incident and, 218, 219
Epstein, Clive, 139, 140
Epstein, Harry, 139, 140, 147, 149
Epstein, Malka, 149
Evans, Malcolm, 256, 311, 341, 343, 434–35, 438, 443
Everly, Phil, 71
Faithfull, Marianne, 273, 303, 310–11, 334, 342, 364
Farrow, Mia, 381, 559
Farrow, Prudence, 381
Fascher, Fred, 193
Fascher, Horst, 105, 119–20, 193
Fawcett, Anthony, 461, 498–99
FBI, 497, 543, 544, 550, 551–52, 554, 557, 559, 565, 603
Feather, Yankel, 146
Fein, Hal, 606
Fieldsteel, Ira, 565
Film No. 5 (Smile), 399
Flannery, Joe, 153
Flippo, Chet, 614
Fluxus, 323, 349, 392, 393
Fly, 534, 568
Fool, The, 342, 347, 359
Ford, Gerald, 581, 620
Ford, Steven, 620
Ford, Tennessee Ernie, 50–51
Fordyce, Keith, 191
Fowley, Kim, 223, 311, 463
Foy, Brian, 161
Fraser, Robert, 334, 347, 410, 413–14, 416
Freeman, Robert, 222, 226, 276, 285
Frith, Simon, 114
Fritz, Ken, 577
“From Me to You,” 210, 211, 212, 223, 242, 244, 252, 274
Frost, David, 411, 412, 414, 428, 546–47
Gabriel, Wayne “Tex,” 538, 539, 552–53, 556, 557, 631
Gamalinda, Eric, 314
Gamble, Bill, 641
Garry, Len, 27–28, 35–36, 38, 39, 49, 59
Geffen, David, 633–34, 640–42, 650
Gerson, Ben, 584–85
“Get Back,” 434, 435, 438, 448–50, 463, 496
Gilmore, Mikal, 655
“Gimme Some Truth,” 589
Ginsberg, Allen, 36–37
“Give Peace a Chance,” 454, 461, 474, 493, 537, 556, 589, 648, 649
Gleason, Ralph, 591
Glen Cove, 627, 629–30
Godard, Jean-Luc, 517
Goldman, Peter, 341
Goldrosen, John, 70
Goldstein, Richard, 351–52
Goon Show, The, 86, 135, 171–72, 173, 248, 444, 571–72
Gordon, Jim, 519
Gould, Jonathan, 197, 207
Grade, Lew, 603
Grammy Awards, 276, 602
Grant, Keith, 350
Grapefruit (Ono), 323–24, 379, 522, 524, 530
Gray, Bill, 546
Griesa, Thomas, 613–14
Griffiths, Eric, 59
Gross, Elliott M., 641
Gross, Leonard, 321–22
Gruen, Bob, 475, 546, 551–52, 556–58, 567–69, 582, 587, 607–8, 611, 651, 654
Haberman, Clyde, 649
Haley, Bill, 49
Hall, Billy, 19, 20, 22, 24
Hall, Francis, 240
Halliday, Brian, 36
Hamburg, 103–4, 124, 646
Beatles in, 97–98, 104–21, 124, 125, 127, 130–32, 152, 153, 156, 157, 162–63, 176, 192–95, 201, 229
Hamilton, Richard, xiii, 89, 166, 391, 416–17, 516
Hanton, Colin, 44, 47, 59, 72, 79, 80, 90, 91, 97, 98, 141
“Happy Xmas [War Is Over],” 481, 535–37, 546
Hard Day’s Night, A, 23, 134, 203, 223, 233, 234, 246, 248–55, 260, 261, 268–71, 282, 286, 299, 366, 429, 493, 515
Harries, Dave, 412
Harrington, Richard, 214
Harris, Bill, 133–34
Harrison, George, 77–78, 183–84, 253, 269, 270, 271, 275, 289, 344, 348, 385, 429, 465, 478, 482, 520, 565, 636, 653, 659, 660
in America, 222, 229
Bangladesh concert of, 524–26, 536, 560, 564
Beatles breakup and, 477, 479
Best and, 183, 184–85
death of, xi, 649
Donegan and, 46
drug bust and, 443
Epstein and, 145, 146, 148, 217, 365, 366
in Hamburg, 98, 108–10, 116–20, 162, 164
in Hard Day’s Night, 251, 286
JL’s death and, 645, 649
and JL’s marriage to Cynthia, 186
JL’s solo work and, 519, 532
Klein and, 559, 560
Let It Be and, 4
27, 428, 431
LSD and, 272–73, 334, 358
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and, 272, 360, 379, 383, 384
Martin and, 179
Ono and, 377–78
Preston and, 433–34
in Quarrymen and early Beatles, 78, 79–81, 90, 92–93, 96, 122, 124, 189–90, 203
Ronettes and, 227, 234, 257, 259
Rowe and, 160
singing and playing of, 193–94, 206, 248, 268, 308
solo work of, 480, 482, 483, 514, 524, 526, 591, 620
songs of, 125, 136, 298, 311, 350, 356, 377, 405, 433–34, 442, 450, 458, 466, 477–78
threat made against, 312–13
Harrison, Harold, 77
Harrison, Harry, 78
Harrison, Louise, 77, 222
Harrison, Pattie, see Boyd, Pattie
Harrison, Peter, 222
Harry, Bill, 10, 12, 84, 89, 118, 142, 175, 192, 261
Harvey, Leila, 6, 28, 29, 48, 83–84
Hastings, Jay, 641, 653
Heath, Edward “Teddy,” 220–21
“Help!,” 275, 335
Help!, 268, 269–72, 274–76, 278–80, 282, 285, 299, 307, 366, 399, 429
Helping Hand Radio Marathon, 603–4
Hendra, Tony, 511
Hendrix, Jimi, 338–39, 350, 357, 371, 419, 593
Henri, Adrian, 654
Hertzberg, Hendrick, 550–51
“Hey Jude,” x, xii, 275, 353, 402–3, 406–8, 410, 412, 415, 424, 428, 495, 504, 520, 531, 592, 657
Hilburn, Robert, 576
Hill, Michael, 36, 54–55
Hindle, Maurice, 425
Hit Parader, 524, 593–94
Hoberman, J., 236
Hoffman, Abbie, 372, 492, 537–38, 544
Hoffman, Julius, 537–38
Holly, Buddy, x, 50, 68–72, 79, 80, 85, 93, 96, 135–37, 189, 217, 242, 243, 260, 545, 562, 593, 596, 599, 619, 655
death of, 94
Holly, Ida, 187
Holly Days, 599
Hoover, J. Edgar, 497, 550
Hopkins, Jerry, 595
Hopkins, John, 484
Hopkins, Nicky, 406, 519, 536
Hours and Times, The, 214
“How Do You Sleep?,” xi, 476, 531–33, 548, 549, 589, 601
How I Won the War, 290, 320–21
Hoyland, John, 423–24
Hurst, David, 515
“I Am the Walrus,” 135, 262, 295, 329, 355, 366, 368, 377, 417, 419, 426, 473
Idle, Eric, 486
“Imagine,” 26, 481, 530–31, 534, 537, 546, 556, 563, 590–91, 603, 648, 651
Imagine, 474, 481, 482, 518–19, 522, 526, 531–34, 542, 549, 561, 589, 600, 629
Imagine: John Lennon, 467
India, 321, 366–67, 377–84, 445–46
In His Own Write (Lennon), 134, 198, 260–64, 268, 276–77, 395
In His Own Write (play), 399, 404
“Instant Karma,” 474, 481, 484–86, 497, 534, 590
Ireland, 551, 554
Isaacson, Michael, 33
“I Saw Her Standing There” (“Seventeen”), 193, 204–6, 209, 224, 243, 244, 657–58
Isley Brothers, 207–9
“I Wanna Be Your Man,” 221–22
“I Want to Hold Your Hand,” 228, 229, 234, 236, 237, 240–44, 252, 279, 403
Jackson, George, 534
Jagger, Bianca, 482
Jagger, Mick, 46, 209, 221, 226, 266, 273, 293, 303, 334, 342, 347–48, 376, 419–20, 425, 440, 482, 516, 562, 622, 656, 659
James, Dick, 191, 201, 231, 234, 440, 441, 447–48, 465
Janov, Arthur, 497–99, 507, 517, 528
Japan, 313, 317, 615, 617–19, 620, 623
Jennings, Waylon, 94
John, Elton, 474, 562, 563, 582, 586–87, 595, 605, 633, 654, 655
John Lennon: In My Life (Shotton and Schaffner), xiii
John Lennon: Live in New York City, 555–56
John Lennon, My Brother (Baird), 29
Johns, Glyn, 435, 442, 448, 453, 487, 495, 527
Johnson, Lyndon, 236, 255–56, 372–74, 557
Johnson, Paul, 42
Johnston, Davey, 587
Jones, Brian, 221, 222, 226, 293, 310–11, 350, 425, 458
Jones, Raymond, 141–42
Joyce, James, 262
“Julia,” 415, 625
Justis, Bill, 77
“(Just Like) Starting Over,” 590, 636, 638, 647, 651
Kaempfert, Bert, 124–25, 128, 156, 606–7
Kane, Larry, 255–57, 279–80, 603–4
Kaufman, Murray, 236, 239, 257
Keeler, Christine, 197–98, 285
Kelly, Brian, 121, 123
Keltner, Cyn, 580
Keltner, Jim, 519, 525, 532, 536, 556, 563, 576, 580
Kennedy, John F., 132, 177, 235–36, 245, 468, 469
Kennedy, Robert F., 372, 374, 646
Kent State University, 374, 492, 535
Kesey, Ken, 319, 348, 367
Kessel, Dan, 572–73
King, Ben E., 600–601
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 373, 374, 646
King, Tony, 226
Kirchherr, Astrid, 112–17, 120, 121, 130, 131, 162–63, 222
Beatles’ haircuts and, 114, 153
Beatles photographed by, 113, 114
Sutcliffe’s death and, 163, 165–66
Sutcliffe’s relationship with, 113, 114, 121, 123, 126, 128, 130, 131, 162–65
Kirshner, Don, 300
Klein, Allen, 433, 439–42, 450–51, 463, 464, 469, 477, 479, 481, 486–89, 496, 512, 513, 519–22, 525, 548, 559–60, 564, 566, 567, 583, 594, 595, 599, 626
Koschmider, Bruno, 97, 104–6, 118–21, 124
Kramer, Billy J., 175, 201, 211, 217, 218, 229, 233, 260
Kramer, Eddie, 350
Krauss, Michael, 540–44
Kunstler, William, 545
“Lady Madonna,” 353, 372, 377, 412, 429, 657
Laine, Denny, 599
Laine, Frankie, 49, 50–51, 53–54
Landau, Jon, 600
Langham, Richard, 204–5
Lapham, Lewis, 380–81
Lawford, Peter, 577–78
Lawrence, D. H., 196–97
Leach, Sam, 127, 129
Leary, Timothy, 303–4, 454
Leiber and Stoller, 79, 136, 178, 536, 601
Leibovitz, Annie, 638–39, 650–51
Leigh, Spencer, 142, 153
Lennon, Alfred (father), xii, xiii, 6, 12–13, 48, 56, 96, 139, 183, 218, 383, 402, 502
away at sea, 9, 10, 13–18, 508
birth of, 6, 659
and birth of Victoria, 15–16
childhood of, 7–8
death of, 612
JL’s Blackpool holiday with, 18–20, 22, 23, 24, 164, 252, 289, 401, 502, 661
JL’s reconciliation with, 611–12
JL’s relationship with, 18–24
JL visited by, 252, 272, 277, 378, 507–9
marital troubles with Judy, 17, 19, 21
meets and marries Judy, 8–10
memoir of, xiii, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Lennon, Charles (uncle), 7
Lennon, Cynthia Powell (first wife), xii, 5, 30, 38, 78, 87–89, 92, 114, 115, 117, 222, 234, 237, 253, 268, 272, 277, 290, 291, 302, 320, 321, 331, 332, 337, 345, 359, 361, 378–79, 400–404, 422, 426, 430, 446, 453, 456–58, 558, 567, 580
collapse of JL’s marriage to, xii–xiii, 88, 288, 330, 331, 361, 364, 379–80, 382–84, 386, 387, 394–96
on Epstein, 147
in India, 378–83
JL’s divorce from, 395–96, 400–402, 410, 418, 420, 469, 483
JL’s marriage to, 182–83, 186–88, 214, 218, 219, 402
JL’s meeting of, 87
Julian’s birth and, 212–14, 217
LSD and, 272–73
McCartney and, 402–3, 406
memoirs of, 88
Mimi and, 87–88, 89, 181–83, 186, 188, 212
Ono and, 610
pregnancy of, 182–83,
201, 213, 219
Lennon, David (stepbrother), 507
Lennon, Edith (aunt), 7
Lennon, George (uncle), 7
Lennon, Jack, Jr. (grandfather), 6–7, 48, 63
Lennon, John Charles Julian (son), 222, 253, 268, 277, 288, 291, 302, 320, 321, 331, 379, 384, 386, 387, 395, 396, 400–403, 404, 420, 421, 426, 446, 456–58, 580, 592, 659
birth of, 212–14, 217
JL’s death and, 644–45, 656
Lennon, John Winston:
as artist, xiii, 34, 67, 74, 86, 87, 92, 399, 584, 615, 618
audio diary of, 620–26, 628
birth of, 3, 4, 10–12
car accident of, 457, 458
cartoons and jokes of, xiii, 34, 35, 40, 41, 67, 92, 134–35, 261, 307, 615
childhood of, xii, xiii, 13–14, 16–24, 25–41
clothing and image of, 36, 37–38, 56, 60, 73–74, 114
Dakota apartment of, 559, 570
death of, xi, 592, 593, 640–43, 644–54, 656–57
drug conviction of, 418–20, 422, 427, 432, 443, 453–54, 458, 593–94, 605
drugs used by, 104–5, 108, 117, 272–73, 274, 288–89, 323, 331, 333, 335, 337, 344–45, 361, 364, 381–82, 395, 399, 400, 418, 426, 427, 432, 442, 445, 462, 465, 595, 608
as father, x, 212, 378, 384, 401, 402, 420, 426, 592, 606, 607, 608, 611, 635, 651–52
FBI and, 497, 543, 544, 550, 551–52, 554, 557, 559, 565, 603
first musical instruments of, 57–58, 110–11
glasses of, 70, 72, 87, 321, 325
guitars and guitar playing of, 110–11, 240
home videos of, 627
immigration problems of, 497, 499, 544, 550, 555, 559, 565–66, 575–76, 591, 593–94, 602–5, 614
In His Own Write, 134, 198, 260–64, 268, 276–77, 395
interviews with, 220, 269, 290–92, 322–23, 413–14, 423–26, 433, 445–47, 467–68, 489–90, 509–12, 515–18, 524, 526–27, 527–29, 532, 550–51, 593–94, 605, 635, 637–39
“Jesus” remarks of, 290, 292, 308, 316–17, 322, 358, 385, 386, 450, 456, 483
in Kotex incident, 577, 578
MBE returned by, 462, 479, 566
name change of, 451–52, 469
naming of, 11
Nutopia press conference of, 565–66
obscenity charges and, 483–84
Pang and, 567–69, 570, 572, 580, 581, 583, 584, 592
peace efforts and other political causes, xi, 255–56, 300, 322, 425–26, 444–46, 452, 454–55, 484, 514, 515, 517–18, 529, 537–38, 544–50, 555–58, 603
post-Beatle identity forged by, 451–53, 469, 477
in primal therapy, 498–99, 507, 528
relocation to New York City, 475, 526, 527, 534, 535, 537, 539, 540, 550–51
sailing of, 628–29
in sailor incident, 116–17
at school, 27, 30–35, 36, 38–41, 56, 67–68, 73–74, 81–82, 85, 86–87, 89, 93, 132, 150
in Smothers Brothers incident, 577–78