by Peter Brown
Segal, George
Seiwell, Denny
Self Portrait
Sellers, Peter
Seltaeb
Sentimental Journey
Sergeant Peppers Lonelly Hearts Club Band
cover of
theatrical version of
Sextette
Shankar, Ravi
Shannon, Del
Shapiro, Helen
Shaw, David
Brian’s death and
Brian’s difficulties with
“She Loves You”
Sheff, David
Shelton, Anne
Shenson, Walter
Sheridan, Tony
Shotton, Pete:
in Apple Corp.
as John’s childhood friend
in John’s estrangement from Cynthia
in Quarrymen
Shrimpton, Jean
Silver, Charles
Silver Beatles
Simmonds, Kathy
Sinclair, John
Skiffle
Smith, George
death of
as John’s guardian
Smith, Mike
Smith, Mimi (Mary Elizabeth)
Bournemouth home of
Brian and
John’s early musical interests and
John’s death and
as John’s guardian
John’s marriage and
Julia’s death and
Smothers, Tommy
Snowden, Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Lord
Solito, Peter
Solters and Roskin
“Something”
Sometime in New York City
Spector, Phil
deterioration of
Spinetti, Victor
Spooner,J. D.
Spy Who Loved Me, The
Stamp, Christopher
Stamp, Terence
“Stand By Me”
Starkey, Richard, Sr. (father)
Starr, Jason (son)
Starr, Maureen Cox
courtship and marriage of
divorce of
George and
on Maharishi’s ashram
Ringo’s first date with
Weybridge home of
Starr, Ringo (Richard Starkey, Jr.)
car accident of
divorce of
film career of
marriage of (See Starr, Maureen Cox)
in move to Monte Carlo
name changed by
palimony suit against
remarriage of
romantic life of
sickly childhood of
solo albums of
Weybridge home of
withdrawal of
in Yoko’s pursuit of John
Starr, Zak (son)
Steele, Tommy
Steinem, Gloria
Stevens, Beecher
Stewart, James
Stewart, Rod
Stigwood, Robert
Brian’s death and
Brian’s difficulties with
Stills, Stephen
Storm, Rory
Strach, Walter
“Strawberry Fields”
Sullivan, Ed
Sundance
Sunday Times
Surfing music
Sutcliffe, Millie
Stu’s death and
Sutcliffe, Stu
death of
engagement of
gang attack on
Hamburg trips of
John’s relationship with
Paul’s relationship with
Swinging Blue Jeans
Swinging London
“Taxman”
Taylor, Alistair
in Apple Corp.
fired from Apple
Taylor, Derek
in Apple Corp.
as ghostwriter
in John’s estrangement from Cynthia
Taylor, James
Taylor, Joan
Templeman, Sydney
That’ll Be the Day
“That’s My Life”
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“Those Were the Days”
Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Thurmond, Strom
Time
Time Bandits
Times Literary Supplement
Timmons, William
Tit Bits
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
Toronto Rock and Roll Festival
Town and Country
Townshend, Peter
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Triple Self-Portrait (Rockwell)
Triumph Investment Trust
Troy, Doris
Trudeau, Pierre
“Twenty Flight Rock”
Twiggy
Twist
Twist, John
Two Virgins
Tynan, Kenneth
Unfinished Music No.1—Two Virgins
Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions
Up Yourlegs
Vaughan, Ivan:
as John’s childhood friend
in Quarrymen
Vee, Bobby
Ventura, Vivian
Venus and Mars
Vietnam War
Vincent, Gene
Voorman, Klaus
Walls and Bridges
Wall Street Journal
Ward, Stephen
Warhol, Andy
WeddingAlbum, The
Weiss, Nat
blackmail of Brian and
Brian’s death and
Brian’s fatalism and
John’s “Jesus” remarks and
in NEMS power struggle
Weiss, Norman
Wenner, Jann
Wesson, Martin
West, Mac
West, Michael
Whalley, Nigel:
as John’s childhood friend
Julia’s death and
in Quarrymen
“Whatever Gets You Through the Night”
White, Andy
White Album, The (The Beatles)
Wilde, Marty
Wild Life
Williams, Allan
as agent
Beatles badmouthed by
encouragement of
fired by Beatles
on Hamburg trip
Williams, Beryl
Willis, Bobby
Wilson, Brian
Wind in the Willows (Grahame)
Wings
Wolfson, Rabbi Samuel
Wood, Charles
Wood, Ron
Woodbine, Lord
Woodcock, Leonard
Woodstock festival
Wooler, Bob
“Working Class Hero”
World War
“World Without Love”
“Yellow Submarine” (song)
Yellow Submarine (film)n
“Yesterday”
Yorke, Ritchie
“You Can’t Catch Me”
“You Like Me Too Much”
Young, La Monte
“You’re Sixteen”
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
The following constitutes an extension of the copyright page:
“The End” (page v) John Lennon & Paul McCartney© 1969 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “I’m a Loser” (page 152) John Lennon & Paul McCartney© 1964 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Help!” (pages 157 and 158) John Lennon & Paul McCartney© 1965 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “In My Lifc” (page 182) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1965 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (page 219) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “A Day in the Life” (pages 224 and 339) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “With a Little Help from My Friends” (page 224) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Hey Jude” (page 275) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1968 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Cold Turkey” (page 331) John Lennon © 1969 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Mother” (page 421) John Lennon © 1971 Northern Songs
Ltd.39 “Working Class Hero” (page 342) John Lennon © 1970 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “God” (page 338) John Lennon © 1971 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “I Am the Walrus” (pages 213 and 343) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd. All rights for the U.S.A., Mexico and the Philippines controlled by Comet Music Corp. c/o ATV Music Corp. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Too Many People” (pages 351 and 353) Paul McCartney © 1971 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “How Do You Sleep” (page 351) John Lennon © 1971 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Imagine” (page 351) John Lennon © 1971 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “She Said She Said” (page 172) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1966 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “I’ll Cry Instead” (page 143) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1964 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “She’s Leaving Home” (page 162) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” (page 224) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “All You Need Is Love” (page 230) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “The Ballad of John and Yoko” (pages 326-327) John Lennon & Paul McCartney © 1969 Northern Songs Ltd.39 “Mind Games” (page 386) John Lennon © 1973 Lennon Music/ATV Music Corp.
John and Yoko during one of their famous bed-ins. (© Lawrence Kirsch/Retna Ltd USA)
John and Yoko with their son. Sean—just before John’s tragic murder. (Camera Press)
John smokes a cigarette and Yoko fidgets as the local authority marries them in Gibraltar, just eight days after Paul married Linda Eastman. Peter Brown (right) bears witness as best man. (David Nutter)
Yoko dreamily waits for takeoff aboard the private plane that will fly her and John to Paris for their honeymoon. (David Nutter)
Paul. George. and John listen to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—the man who brought Transcendental Meditation into the limelight through his highly publicized relationship with the Beatles. The Beatles later became disillusioned with Maharishi Yogi, following a retreat in India. (Camera Press)
Despite the pressures that eventually fractured the band tor good, the Beatles enjoy a short-lived reunion on the top floor of the Apple Corp. building on January 30, 1969. Peter Brown appears immediately behind and to the left of Paul. (Camera Press Digital)
The Beatles films (clockwise from top right): escaping fans in A Hard Day’s Night; in Indian regalia for Magical Mystery Tour; the Austrian skiing sequence from Help!; pitching some publicity for Yellow Submarine (the Beatles only “franchised” project).
George explains some of the intricacies of the Indian sitar—an instrument that he would bring to wider world attention—to his first wife, Patti Boyd, in 1965. (Camera Press, © Retna Ltd.)
Paul with then-girlfriend, actress Jane Asher, at a friend’s wedding in 1967. (Camera Press)
At the RCA offices (from left): Brian, George, George Martin, John, and Sir Joseph Lockwood. Ringo and Paul flank Sir Joe’s secretary. (Courtesy of EMI Records)
John in a rare public appearance with his first wife, Cynthia, in 1964. (Camera Press)
Twenty-four-year-old Ringo (left) poses with new bride, eighteen-year-old Maureen Cox, and Brian Epstein (center) in 1965. (Camera Press)
John fronting his schoolboy band. the Quarrymen, at a party in Liverpool in 1956, around the time when he and Paul first met. (Camera Press)
The Beades relax at rehearsal before their historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. (L.A. Media/Retna UK)
The fifth Beatle, Brian Epstein. (Camera Press Digital)
An early publicity shot of four of the most famous grins in history. (L.A. Media/Retna UK)
John, with his kneesocks at his ankles and knees black with dirt, pauses for a photograph with Aunt Mimi and Uncle George outside Mendips, circa 1948. (Alpha/Globe Photos)
John with beloved Aunt Mimi, circa 1965. (Camera Press Digital)
1 A Day in the life, The Beatles Day by Day is a fascinating volume listing a daily calendar in the lives of the Beatles including illness, travel, appearances, and personal details. For an excellent, song-by-song musical analysis, the reader is directed to Nicholas Sehaffner’s Beatles Forever.
2 These songs were lost years later when Jane Asher threw them out during a spring cleaning of Paul’s London house.
3 Ringo says that Andy White is on the single but that he can hear himself on the album cut.
4 Iris Caldwell later married British pop star Alvin Stardust.
5 Even more ironic, “Mull of Kintyre” was McCartney’s only unmitigated flop record in America and one of the many reasons he left Capitol Records in the seventies.
6 Earlier in the evening, discussing possibie “ad libs” during the concert, John had threatened to tell the royal audience to “rattle their fucking jewelry.
7 Years later, when Cynthia Twist wrote about her marriage in her heavily self-censored autobiography, A Twist of Lennon, she changed the date of her marriage to 1962. This inaccuracy has been noted many times in Beatles biographies. Recently, Cynthia confessed it was an inadvertent mistake; she has a mental block against admitting Julian was conceived out of wedlock and often still confuses the dates.
8 The real “fifth Beatle” was without doubt Neil Aspinall.
9 The Beatles discovered many years later that Elvis never sent the telegram or even knew about it. It was sent, instead, by Colonel Tom Parker.
10 Jacobs gave notorious, elaborate theme parties on weekends at his Brighton mansion, which would begin in the afternoon and continue through the next day. Luminaries like Sophie Tucker would often entertain and once a guest expired in the bedroom in the service of a young male courtesan. Jacobs simply locked the bedroom door and didn’t mention it until the party was over.
11 Neither EMI or Capitol thought to cover movie soundtracks in their contracts with the Beades at the time.
12 Not her real name.
13 Name changed.
14 Mal Evans kept these notes—ludicrous pontifications in retrospect—with him up until the time of his death in Los Angeles in 1976. They were confiscated by the police and lost with some of his other belongings.
15 “Yesterday” was not included on the American version of the Help! LP as it was in the U.K. It was released as a single by Capitol in September of 1965.
16 Not his real name. As far as the dentist’s real name, George, Pattie, and Cynthia all claim that they cannot remember it.
17 The exchange later turned into the John Lennon composition, “She Said. She Said”: “She said, ‘I know what it’s like to be dead, I know what it is to be sad.’ / And she’s making me feel like I’ve never been born.”
18 Ringo later rented this flat to Jimi Hendrix, who painted the entire place in black paint, including the furniture and silk wallpaper. Candles were burned on every table, scorching them with hot wax. Ringo sued Hendrix for destroying the flat, and the case was settled out of court.
19 After building several suburban homes, Ringo’s construction company went broke.
20 There were only billiard tables readily available in the U.K. when Ringo decided he wanted a pool table, and one had to be flown overnight from America at twice its cost. He told this story whenever he played on it. Shooting pool became one of Ringo’s enduring passions.
21 The authors were present at an auction at Abbey Road studios in 1981 during which the bidding was fierce and heavy over the roll of toilet paper and its holder that Ringo had complained about. A very happy man purchased it for around £65.
22 In the U.S. Capitol put together an interim LP, Yesterday and Today. This was a compilation of various singles and other material left off previously released U.S. albums. The album contained, among notable others, “Nowhere Man,” “Drive My Car,” and “Dr. Roberts.” Yesterday and Today had its place in Beatles trivia as the only album to initially lose money. The album was distributed in the U.S. with what was called the “butcher jacket” photo of the Beatles in white smocks, with decapitated dolls and red meat strewn about them. Although John thought the cover “as relevant as Vietnam,” it was
a good example of the Beatles’ occasional poor judgment, the record-rack jobbers got so many complaints, they refused to ship the album. Capitol tossed away 750,000 covers and pasted-over many others. A S250,000 advertising campaign was also aborted.
23 Astrid reportedly now owns two clubs, one of which is a gay bar.
24 One of the most curious side effects of John’s “Jesus” remarks was that the South African government banned all sales and radio play of Beatles albums. This ban was kept in effect until 1970, when it was lifted for Paul, George, and Ringo John Lennon’s music, at this writing, is still forbidden. Despite the American boycott, their new album, Revolver, sailed to the top of the American charts and remained there for two months.
25 Making a third movie was an option, but a suitable script could not be agreed upon by the four Beatles and Brian. Instead, an animated-feature-length cartoon was licensed to King Features in the U.S., eventually called Yellow Submarine, which Brian hoped would satisfy the terms of the U.A. contract. The Beatles had virtually nothing to do with this animated film, aside from composing a few songs for it when it was almost completed. Although U.A. rejected Yellow Submarine, as the third film, it went on to become a commercial and artistic success. Ironically, U.A. later acted as a distributor of the film in the U.S.
26 Journalist and author Hunter Davies had been commissioned by Brian to write the Beatles’ authorized biography. It was published in the U.K. and the US. in 1968. All of the Beatles, including their families, had final control over what appeared in the book. Davies says the book went through wholesale censorship, with the Beatles tearing out pages they didn’t like as they read the manuscript. The only parent who asked for changes was John’s Aunt Mimi, who “went mad” according to Davies when she read the manuscript. Among other changes, all curse words were deleted, the drug use was toned down, and Mimi insisted that her sister Julia had married “Twitchy” so that no childrcn were born out of wedlock. Qucenie insisted that a reference to Brian’s homosexuality be deleted. She said it wasn’t true. Another story not even considered for inclusion in the book was John’s trip to Spain with Brian. John admitted to Davies that he had slept with Brian “to see what fucking with a guy was like.”