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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

 

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