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by Howard Sounes

  Peter and Gordon success: Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (Roberts, ed.)

  Jim McCartney - ‘I’d usually …’ - The Beatles (Davies).

  PM’s purchase of Rembrandt: author’s enquiries and interviews, including an employee who didn’t wish to be named.

  Jim meets his second wife: author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted and recalled dialogue).

  Jim’s proposal: Angela McCartney is quoted from her interview with the Sun (6 July 1981). Marriage: marriage certificate.

  JL on songwriting: the Anthology (book).

  Beatles for Sale: GM quoted from The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn); PM quoted from the Anthology (book) on ‘Eight Days a Week’.

  Eric Clapton quoted from his autobiography.

  Jimmy Savile quoted from author’s interview.

  ‘Ticket to Ride’: author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted).

  Studio chatter: the Anthology (CD Vol. 2).

  Taxation: HM Treasury.

  Northern Songs flotation: articles in the Guardian (13 Feb. 1965; 6 Jan. 1966) and the Economist (20 Feb. 1965). Also Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Harold Wilson’s speech: White Heat (Sandbrook).

  Aunts knock through: Joan McCartney and Mike Robbins to author.

  ‘nutty’: … up front (Spinetti).

  Shooting Help! in the Bahamas for tax reasons: various including I Should Have Known Better (Ellis).

  Pot-smoking during Help!: the Anthology (documentary); also Richard Lester’s comments in the DVD re-release of Help!

  John’s compliment: PM quoted from Playboy interview (Dec. 1984).

  ‘Swinging City’: Time (15 April 1966).

  Lord St Germans quoted from author’s interviews.

  PM learns he is a millionaire: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Purchase of 7 Cavendish Avenue: author’s local enquiries and interviews, with particular thanks to neighbours and local residents including Mrs Fenton, Mrs Evelyn Grumi and family, John Kay and Peter Vogl.

  Tony Barrow quoted from author’s interview.

  PM - ‘possibly the smash of the century’ - the Anthology (book).

  Writing of ‘Yesterday’: I referred to Yesterday and Today (Coleman), including PM’s quote, ‘I just fell …’, GH’s comment, the Alma Cogan evening and Bruce Welch’s villa.

  GM on arranging ‘Yesterday’: his book All You Need is Ears.

  PM on meeting Terry Doran: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  First LSD trip: based on GH’s comments (quoted) in the Anthology (book) and author’s interview with Gibson Kemp. Also Wonderful Today (Boyd). PM quoted from the Anthology (documentary).

  Leslie Halliwell on Help!: Halliwell’s Film Guide.

  Blackpool Night Out: TV footage. Thanks also to Tony Barrow.

  Shea Stadium: the documentary The Beatles at Shea Stadium (NEMS Enterprises, 1965); author’s interviews with Barrow and Bernstein (quoted exchange with BE) and Barrow’s book John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me from which I quote ‘to create a momentary display …’

  Stones present: Stone Alone (Wyman).

  LA vacation: Don Sort quoted from author’s interview; Peggy Lipton is quoted from Breathing Out (Lipton).

  PM’s birthday gift to Jane: TV Times (9 Oct. 1965). Four in a bed: author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted).

  Meeting Elvis: Chris Hutchins’s report for the NME (3 Sept. 1963): the Anthology (book [PM quoted]); and Careless Love (Guralnick).

  JL’s remark about meeting Elvis: author’s interview with Tony Barrow.

  8: FIRST FINALE

  Meeting the Queen and receiving their MBEs: PM and GH quoted from the Anthology (book). Soldiers sent medals back: Shout! (Norman). PM’s relationship with the Queen: author’s interviews.

  JL’s reason for returning his MBE: his 1969 telegram to HRH.

  RS - ‘I’m not really into …’ - Postcards from the Boys (Starr).

  JL claimed the Beatles smoked a joint in Buckingham Palace, contradicted by GH in the Anthology (book).

  GM goes freelance: All You Need is Ears (Martin).

  ‘Plastic soul’ comment: the Anthology (CD liner notes Vol. 2).

  PM on who wrote what: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  ‘We Can Work it Out’: thanks to Spencer Leigh for his thoughts.

  Janet Vaughan on ‘Michelle’: author’s interview (quoted).

  PM on ‘I’m Looking Through You’ and his open relationship with Jane Asher: his comments in The Beatles (Davies) and Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Jane Asher declines to speak: correspondence with the author.

  Jann Haworth on Paul and Jane: author’s interview (quoted).

  PM to Barry Miles: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles). Also PM on ‘You Won’t See Me’ and ‘I’m Looking Through You’.

  Miles on his friendship with PM, and the avant-garde connections: quoted from author’s interview. Thanks also to Jann Haworth.

  Attends Luciano Berio lecture: Daily Mail (25 Feb. 1966). Quotes from In the Sixties (Miles).

  Maggie McGivern relationship: her interview with the Daily Mail (12 April 1997).

  PM acquires Martha: Punch (23 Nov. 1966).

  Paul’s aristocratic friends: author’s interviews including Dudley Edwards.

  Tara Browne background: author’s interviews and profiles written upon his death.

  Sale of Lenmac: I rely on Ray Coleman’s book Yesterday and Today.

  PM on ‘For No One’: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Gibson Kemp quoted from author’s interview.

  PM on composing ‘Eleanor Rigby’: the South Bank Show (Jan. 1978).

  Bernard Herrmann influence: GM to Melody Maker (28 Aug. 1971).

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg quoted from author’s interviews.

  Jane Asher on the Cold War: Saga (Oct. 2007).

  Len Deighton quoted from correspondence with the author.

  Peter Brown on the paternity claims: quoted from author’s interview.

  Erica Hübers quoted from correspondence with author.

  Marijuana on tour: Peter Brown’s book The Love You Make.

  Manila concerts: Imelda Marcos is quoted from an interview with the author. I also referred to my interviews with Tony Barrow and Peter Brown and their memoirs. (BE’s conversation is from Brown’s The Love You Make.)

  Maureen Cleave’s interview with PM, Evening Standard (25 March 1966); author’s correspondence with Cleave (quoted); and reference to her 4 March 1966 interview with JL (quoted). Reaction to JL’s ‘Jesus’ interview: Evening News (5 Aug. 1966); the Anthology (documentary).

  Peter Brown on PM’s fear of assassination: author’s interview (quoted).

  Chicago Press conference: The Beatles Off the Record (Badman).

  Unsold tickets at Shea Stadium in 1966: author’s interview with Sid Bernstein.

  Linda McCartney (LM) in the press box: Sixties (Linda McCartney). NB: LM seemed unsure which Shea Stadium show she attended. In Sixties she writes that she saw the Beatles at the stadium in ’65 and ’66. In seems more likely LM only attended the second show, if she sat in the press box. She’d just started taking photographs professionally that year.

  Riot at Dodger Stadium: The Complete Beatles Chronicle (Lewisohn).

  BE in LA: author’s interviews with Peter Brown and Nat Weiss (quoted). Additional background: Brian Epstein (Coleman).

  Candlestick Park: audio recording of the show; author’s interviews with Barrow and Marty Balin (quoted).

  9: LINDA

  Ravi Shankar quoted from correspondence with the author.

  PM’s trip to France and quote: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles) including the quote, ‘It made me remember why we all wanted to get famous.’

  Dylan on fame: Down the Highway (Sounes).

  PM on The Family Way: the Anthology (book). GM quoted from his book All You Need is
Ears.

  Jane Asher goes to America: press cuttings including London Life (1 Oct. 1966) and PM to the Daily Sketch (14 Jan. 1967) in which he talks about Cathy Come Home.

  Tony Bramwell quoted from author’s interview.

  Recording ‘Penny Lane’: author’s interview with David Mason (quoted).

  PM’s involvement with BEV: author’s interview with Douglas Binder and Dudley Edwards (both quoted).

  Cavendish décor: author’s interviews and Dudley Edwards (quoted) and Miles.

  Nico visits: author’s interview with Dudley Edwards. Thanks also to Paul Morrisey.

  PM’s motorbike accident: the Anthology (book).

  Recording Sgt. Pepper: author’s interviews; The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn).

  JL inspired by Tara Browne’s death to write ‘A Day in the Life’: John Lennon: The Life (Norman), for example. No connection between Browne and ‘Day in the Life’: PM in his book Paul McCartney: Paintings.

  Douglas Binder quoted from author’s interview.

  Old boys from the Inny interpret ‘A Day in the Life’: author’s interview with Steve Norris.

  Correspondence with Stockhausen: author’s interview with Sir John Tavener.r,

  Alban Berg quote from The Rest is Noise (Ross).

  GM on the orchestral climax: Melody Maker (28 Aug. 1971).

  Mike Nesmith quoted from correspondence with author.

  Carnival of Light: author’s interview with Dudley Edwards (quoted).

  Encounter with Joe Orton: his Diaries.

  GM’s ‘biggest mistake’: The Beatles Book (Nov. 1994).

  Creating the Sgt. Pepper cover: author’s interview with Jann Haworth (quoted).

  San Francisco visit: author’s interview with Marty Balin (quoted).

  PM reunited with Jane in Colorado: The Beatles: A Diary (Miles).

  Brian Wilson abandons Smile: Heroes and Villains (Gaines).

  Magical Mystery Tour chart: the original pie chart drawing reproduced in The Complete Beatles Chronicle (Lewisohn).

  PM quote - ‘a crazy roly-poly Sixties’ film’ - the Anthology (documentary).

  Redlands bust: Marianne Faithfull’s memoir Faithfull and Bill Wyman’s Stone Alone.

  PM’s friendship with Prince Stash: author’s interview with Stash (quoted).

  PM meets Linda Eastman, later McCartney (LM): author’s interviews with Tony Bramwell, Peter Brown and Dudley Edwards (all quoted).

  LM - ‘I was impressed …’ - Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  LM background: author’s interviews with Marty Balin, Peter Brown, Danny Fields, Al Kooper and Nat Weiss. Also vital records and court documents. For Eastman family history I am indebted to Danny Fields and his book Linda McCartney: The Biography, supplemented by my interviews with Sid Bernstein and Linda’s half-brother Philip Sprayregen (both quoted).

  Mel See background: author’s interviews with his common-law wife Beverly Wilk, and Arizona friends Jonathan Kress (quoted) and Debra and Sherry Zeller.

  Heather’s date of birth: birth record.

  LM takes up photography: Club Sandwich # 64.

  LM - ‘I was the only photographer …’ and ‘My father used to …’ - Linda’s Pictures (McCartney).

  Danny Fields and Nat Weiss quoted from

  author’s interviews.

  Sgt. Pepper party: author’s interviews with Peter Brown (quoted) and Sir Jimmy Savile. Also Linda’s Pictures and Sixties (McCartney).

  LM’s fling with Prince Stash: author’s interview with Prince Stash (quoted).

  10: HELLO, GOOD BYE

  Yellow Submarine: author’s interviews with Al Brodax, John Coates (both quoted) and Norman Kauffman.

  BE quotes/weekend party: Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor).

  PM and Jane Asher reunited: Daily Express (30 May 1967).

  Dudley Edwards quoted from author’s interview.

  Ned Rorem on Sgt. Pepper: Time (22 Sept. 1967).

  Sir Joseph Lockwood quoted from the Sunday Times (14 May 1967).

  US record sales: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

  JL on Sgt. Pepper: Lennon Remembers (Wenner).

  PM’s purchase of High Park: author’s interviews and local enquiries in Kintyre with particular thanks to Jamie and Katie Black (quoted and recalled dialogue), Rory and Mary Colville, Alice and Duncan McLean, and Jimmy McGeachy (father and son).

  Inspiration for ‘The Long and Winding Road’: PM interviewed for Club Sandwich # 41. Also the Daily Express (15 June 1967).

  ‘Christ, it’s a Beatle!’: recalled by Rory Colville in an interview with the author.

  PM meets the Campbeltown Pipe Band: author’s interview with Jim McGeachy Snr (quoted).

  PM’s LSD confession: People (18 June 1967).

  Use of cocaine and heroin: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Drug busts: author’s interviews with John Hopkins, Prince Stanislas de Rola and others. Background reading: Faithfull (Marianne Faithfull); Symphony for the Devil (Norman); Old Gods Almost Dead (Davis) and In the Sixties (Miles).

  GH on PM’s LSD confession: the Anthology (book).

  Aunt Ginny and the spliff: author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted).

  ‘Come Back Milly!’: videotape of Our World.

  GM’s difficult week: his book All You Need is Ears. Thanks also to David Mason.

  Apple School: Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor). Also author’s interview with Janet Vaughan.

  Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger are quoted from the author’s interviews and correspondence, except ‘It is wrong …’ which is from Rolling Stone (9 Nov. 1967).

  Magic Alex: author’s interviews with associates and background reading.

  Maharishi background: his Daily Telegraph obituary (7 Feb. 2008).

  Trip to Bangor: press reports including the Sunday Times (27 Aug. 1967).

  Cynthia Lennon quoted from her book, John.

  BE’s decline and death: author’s interviews with Peter Brown (quoted), E. Rex Makin and Nat Weiss (quoted).

  BE on PM: A Cellarful of Noise (Epstein).

  ‘mincing along’ quote: author’s interview with Ron Ellis, who knew the band in the early days.

  PM on his friendship with Robert Fraser: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Rolling Stones’ advance: Symphony for the Devil (Norman).

  Epstein’s death: author’s interview with Peter Brown except ‘Paul was shocked and saddened …’, which is from The Love You Make (Brown). Also press coverage of the Beatles’ reactions.

  11 : PAUL TAKES CHARGE

  BE’s death reported: Daily Mirror (28 Aug. 1967).

  E. Rex Makin on BE’s death: quoted from author’s interview.

  Aftermath of BE’s death: author’s interview with Peter Brown (quoted).

  Peter Theobald on Magical Mystery Tour quoted from Look of London (20 Jan. 1968). Also PM quote to Theobald.

  Magical Mystery Tour background: author’s interviews and background reading including the Anthology (book) and The Complete Beatles Chronicle (Lewisohn).

  Catherine Osborne quoted from the Daily Express (4 Sept. 1967).

  Raymond Revue Bar scene: author’s interview with Neil Innes (JL comment recalled by).

  Hunter Davies quoted from his feature for the Sunday Times (24 Dec. 1967).

  Jamie Black quoted from author’s interview.

  Jane Asher on how PM had changed: The Beatles (Davies).

  Dudley Edwards swaps a statue of Shiva for Jane’s Ford: author’s interview (quoted).

  Arguments at Rembrandt: Angela McCartney to the Sun (7 July 1981).

  PM and Jane Asher on their relationship: The Beatles (Davies).

  PM on the reception for Magical Mystery Tour: Daily Mirror (28 Dec. 1967).

  GH - ‘the world famous …’ - the Anthology (book).

  PM on the bridge: Life (18 March 1968).

  PM on his discussion with GH in Rishikesh and the scene th
ere: the Anthology (book); also At the Apple’s Core (O’Dell) and Wonderful Today (Boyd).

  Apple Records: author’s interviews with Sir John Tavener (quoted) and others.

  PM on ‘Come and Get it’: the Anthology (book).

  Mary Hopkin recording: PM is quoted from an Apple press release reproduced in Fifty Years Adrift. The author also referred to Hopkin’s 1992 interview with Goldmine and a May 2009 interview for BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.

  Trip to New York: author’s interviews and background reading including At the Apple’s Core (O’Dell).

  PM to New York press: The Beatles Off the Record (Badman).

  PM meets LM in New York: LM quoted from her book, Sixties; Nat Weiss quoted from author’s interview.

  Yoko Ono (YO) background: John Lennon: The Life (Norman), including JL quote; John (Cynthia Lennon), including Cynthia Lennon’s quote; and The John Lennon Encyclopaedia (Harry).

  YO goes first to PM: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  12: WEIRD VIBES

  White Album demo session: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn).

  Opening of Apple Tailoring: Apple Press Office Timeline in Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor).

  Tony Bramwell quoted from author’s interview.

  PM’s reaction to Yoko joining the recording sessions and Yoko quote: Here, There and Everywhere (Emerick).

  Xenophobic and sexist remarks: The Love You Make (Brown).

  Mike McCartney’s wedding: author’s interview with Tony Barrow (quoted), Thank U Very Much (McCartney) and The Beatles Unseen (Hayward).

  PM’s affair with Francie Schwartz, her quotes and recalled dialogue: Body Count (Schwartz). Also author’s interview with Tony Bramwell (quoted), Barry Miles and others.

  PM on ‘Blackbird’: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  PM in LA: author’s interview with Tony Bramwell, quotes and recalled dialogue, except ‘We were all conscious …’ which is from the Mail on Sunday (14 March 1999).

  Peggy Lipton is quoted from her book Breathing Out.

  LM - ‘dirty weekend’ - Wingspan documentary (MPL, 2001).

  Recording Thingumybob: author’s interviews with Roy Newsome and Geoffrey Brand (quoted).

  Arguments in the studio, including dialogue between JL and PM, ‘granny music shit’ and row with GM: Here, There and Everywhere (Emerick).