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by Howard Sounes

  GM indiscretion: I Should Have Known Better (Ellis).

  Chris Thomas on first working with PM: Sound on Sound (Dec. 1995).

  Culmination of Schwartz affair, dialogue and aftermath: Body Count (Schwartz). NB: Maggie McGivern makes it plain in her interview with the Daily Mail (12 April 1997) that she was also seeing PM at this time, though it is not clear whether she is the woman whose home he visited the night he was with Schwartz.

  Jane Asher’s appearance on Simon Dee’s show: Sunday Mirror (21 July 1968).

  Tony Bramwell and Jann Haworth reaction quoted from author’s interviews.

  JL and YO come to stay: John Lennon: The Life (Norman) and Body Count (Schwartz).

  Ending of Schwartz affair: her book Body Count. Miles made it clear in an interview with the author that PM had asked her to leave before.

  Tony Barrow on the Asher break-up: interview with author.

  PM visits Cynthia: John (Cynthia Lennon) including quotation.

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

  PM on the Apple Shop closure: Shout! (Norman).

  ‘Hey Jude’ graffiti: The Beatles: A Diary (Miles) and The Beatles Book (Dec. 2001).

  Filming ‘Hey Jude’ promo: author’s interview with Michael Lindsay-Hogg (quoted).

  Sending out the Apple discs: The Longest Cocktail Party (DiLello).

  The Queen to Sir Joseph Lockwood, and his reaction to the Two Virgins sleeve: Shout! (Norman).

  Bad vibes/RS leaving the band: the Anthology (book).

  RS quote: Postcards from the Boys (Starr).

  Several chicks at Cavendish: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  LM gets the call: Linda McCartney (Fields).

  Marty Balin quoted from author’s interview.

  LM on her decision to come to London: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  13: WEDDING BELLS

  JL drug bust: John Lennon: The Life (Norman).

  Peter Brown quoted from author’s interview.

  PM on being in New York quoted from Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles); also Wingspan (MPL, 2001).

  Philip Sprayregen and Danny Fields quoted from author’s interviews.

  PM on Heather at infants school: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Heather McCartney on her childhood: Sunday Times (28 Nov. 1999).

  Life at High Park: an interview with the McCartneys in the Evening Standard (22 April 1971); Melody Maker (20 Nov. 1971); and Sixties (Linda McCartney).

  LM stops using the Pill: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  LM - ‘You know, I could make you …’ - recalled by PM in the Wingspan documentary (MPL, 2001).

  Richard Hamilton background and quotes: Remake/Remodel (Bracewell).

  White Album sales: RIAA.

  PM produces ‘I am the Urban Spaceman’: author’s interview with Neil Innes (quoted).

  PM visits Hunter Davies: The Beatles (Davies).

  Philip Sprayregen quoted from author’s interview.

  David Jacobs dies: Guardian (20 Dec. 1968).

  Hell’s Angels for Xmas: The Longest Cocktail Party (DiLello), including GH quote and lead stripped from the roof.

  JL’s Christmas recording: The Love You Make (Brown).

  Glyn Johns on Get Back: author’s interview (quoted).

  What JL said to GM about an ‘honest album’: the Anthology (book).

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg quoted from author’s interviews.

  ‘Two of Us’ about PM and LM: PM in Wingspan (MPL, 2001).

  Band dialogue from the movie Let It Be.

  GH ‘bringing home bad vibes’: Wonderful Today (Boyd).

  PM assumed JL was joking about hiring Clapton: the Anthology (book).

  Magic Alex’s useless studio: Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor); All You Need is Ears (Martin); and author’s interview with Glyn Johns (quoted).

  Origins of ‘Let it Be’ and ‘The Long and Winding Road’: Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Origins of ‘Get Back’: Revolution in the Head (MacDonald).

  Beverly Wilk on Mel See quoted from author’s interview.

  JL to Ray Coleman: The Lives of John Lennon (Goldman).

  Allen Klein background: author’s interviews and Philip Norman’s books Symphony for the Devil and Shout!

  Peter Brown quotes: author’s interview.

  Derek Taylor’s boozy press room and Brown’s lunches: Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor).

  Beatles dialogue about the concert: recorded conversation from the Let It Be sessions.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg on the rooftop concert: author’s interview (quoted).

  Glyn Johns on his version of Let It Be: quoted from author’s interviews.

  PM’s marriage to Linda Eastman: marriage certificate; author’s interviews, news footage and contemporaneous reports in The Times and Daily Mirror (both 13 March 1960 [LM quoted from the Mirror]).

  Mike McCartney best man: Thank U Very Much (McCartney).

  PM on the pre-marital row: Woman (1 Dec. 1984).

  Jill and hairdresser and the Apple Scruffs/‘The Eyes and Ears of the World’: Waiting for the Beatles (Bedford).

  GH’s drug bust: The Longest Cocktail Party (DiLello) and The Beatles (Spitz).

  LM gave the impression she was an Eastman-Kodak: Danny Fields has her saying so in his biography to impress people during her early photographic assignments.

  John and Yoko marry: Les Anthony’s interview with the News of the World (4 June 1972) and John Lennon: The Life (Norman).

  ‘Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up that Old Gang of Mine’: PM has often cited this song, which the Beatles sang in the early days, as an analogy for why the Beatles came adrift: in the Anthology (book) for instance.

  14 : CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

  Tony Bramwell and Peter Brown on the problems at Apple: quoted from author’s interviews.

  What Klein said to John Eastman and ‘Proceedings got off to …’: The Love You Make (Brown). Also the letter that annoyed the Epsteins.

  Clive Epstein sues the Beatles: Daily Express (24 June 1969).

  ATV move: Yesterday and Today (Coleman).

  PM quotes - ‘We’re a big act!’ and ‘I said, “It’s Friday night …’ - the Anthology (documentary).

  Glyn Johns on the row with Klein: quoted from author’s interview.

  PM records with Steve Miller: author’s interview with Johns; Miller quoted from Paul McCartney Now and Then (Barrow and Bextor).

  PM’s anonymous postcards to Taylor, and PM’s comment to staff, ‘Don’t forget, you’re not very good …’: Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor).

  Apple sackings and resignations: author’s interviews with Tony Bramwell, Peter Brown and Barry Miles (quoted).

  Alistair Taylor quoted from The Beatles (Spitz). Background reading: The Love You Make (Brown) and Shout! (Norman).

  Dr Asher’s suicide: his death certificate.

  LM to RS - ‘Oh, they’ve got you, too’ - Shout! (Norman).

  Recording ‘Give Peace a Chance’: The Complete Beatles Chronicle (Lewisohn).

  GM on being asked to produce the Beatles again: the Anthology (book).

  JL’s car accident: The Longest Cocktail Party (DiLello) and John Lennon: The Life (Norman).

  Dekker poem: The Oxford Book of English Verse (Ricks, ed.).

  Emerick on Yoko and her conversation with PM: his book Here, There and Everywhere.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg quoted from author’s interview on the rough cut of Let It Be.

  Origins of ‘Polythene Pam’: author’s interview with Royston Ellis (quoted) and his unpublished memoirs by permission.

  Scruffs climb through the bathroom window and dialogue: Waiting for the Beatles (Bedford).

  Miles on the break-ins: author’s interview (quoted).

  Abbey Road name change: Abbey Road Studios.

  Mary McCartney born: birth cert., Daily Mirror (29 Aug. 1969), and PM interview with the
Daily Mail (19 Oct. 1998).

  JL tells PM he’s leaving the group: reconstructed from JL’s comments to Rolling Stone, collected in Lennon Remembers (Wenner).

  PM comments in the Anthology (documentary) that the Beatles always played ‘good’.

  Paul is Dead (1966): author’s interview with Tony Barrow (quoted). 1969 recurrence of story: Life (4 Nov 1969 [including PM quotes]). Also The Longest Cocktail Party (DiLello) and Terence Spencer’s remarks in Paul McCartney: A Life (Carlin).

  Tony Bramwell on the break-up of the band: author’s interview (quoted).

  PM’s ‘breakdown’ interview: Wingspan (MPL, 2001).

  Linda’s concern: author’s interviews with Danny Fields, and background sources.

  PM screams at RS: RS’s affidavit to the High Court, 24 Feb. 1971.

  The McCartney LP Q&A: quoted from the Q&A.

  Establishment of McCartney Productions: Companies House records.

  ‘Paul is Quitting the Beatles’: Daily Mirror (10 April 1970); also author’s interview with Don Short. Brown reaction: author’s interview (quoted).

  15: ‘HE’S NOT A BEATLE ANY MORE!’

  Paul McCartney’s memo to Klein: reproduce in the Anthology (book).

  Glyn Johns quoted from author’s interview.

  Melody Maker review of McCartney (18 April 1970). PM’s retort published: 2 May 1970.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg quoted from author’s interview. He is also the source for George Harrison blocking the release of a DVD of Let It Be.

  Phil Spector quoted from the BBC Arena documentary broadcast 25 Oct. 2008.

  Rupert: PM’s interview with the Evening Standard (22 April 1970). Also Fifty Years Adrift (Taylor).

  Denny Seiwell background and the making of Ram: author’s interview with Seiwell (quoted).

  Linda Aiello (née Magno) quoted from author’s interview.

  PM’s fear of kidnapping: author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted).

  LM - ‘He’s not a Beatle any more!’ - recalled by Linda Aiello in author’s interview.

  Ram recording dates (different to those published elsewhere) are based on Monique Seiwell’s diaries.

  PM told a reporter around this time - ‘I think the other three are the most honest, sincere men I have ever met …’ - Evening Standard, 21 April 1970.

  PM on his decision to take the Beatles to court: Reveille (24 April 1971).

  PM - ‘I single-handedly saved …’ - Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles).

  Worst moment of life: Rolling Stone (3 May 2007).

  Writ issued and court proceedings: as reported contemporaneously in the press.

  JL to Rolling Stone: Lennon Remembers (Wenner).

  PM’s response to reading JL’s interview: Rolling Stone (31 Jan. 1974).

  High Court evidence including quotes: contemporaneous court reports.

  Recording in LA: author’s interview with Jim Guercio (quoted) and Denny Seiwell.

  PM wins at the High Court: Daily Telegraph (12 March 1971).

  Sir James Douglas Spooner quoted from author’s interview.

  PM attends Mick Jagger’s wedding: author’s interview with Duncan and Alice McLean (quoted throughout).

  Girls in the woods: author’s interview with Rory Colville (quoted). PM quoted from the Sun (2 July 1971).

  PM expands his Scottish farm: author’s interviews with neighbouring farmers, and estate records.

  PM on his wife writing with him: Reveille (1 May 1971).

  Sued by Northern Songs: Evening Standard (23 July 1971).

  Thrillington project: author’s interviews with Clem Cattini (quoted) and Herbie Flowers.

  Album quote - ‘Born in Coventry Cathedral …’ - is from the liner notes of the 1995 CD re-release of Thrillington.

  PM adopts Heather See: adoption certificate. PM is quoted on bringing up Heather from his interview with the Evening Standard (22 April 1970).

  Americans come to Kintyre: author’s interview with Denny Seiwell (quoted).

  Lessons with Mrs Matthews: author’s interview with Evelyn Grumi (quoted).

  GM on Paul and Linda’s musical partnership: Melody Maker (4 Sept. 1971).

  PM - ‘comforting’ - Wingspan (MPL, 2001).

  Denny Laine background and quotes: author’s interview.

  Stella McCartney born: birth certificate. Birth and naming of the band: PM in Wingspan and Daily Express (9 Feb. 1997). Thanks also to Denny Seiwell.

  16: THE NEW BAND

  Recording Wild Life: author’s interviews with Denny Laine and Denny Seiwell (both quoted).

  JL and Phil Spector in conversation: Melody Maker (6 Nov. 1971).

  Wings launch party: Melody Maker (13 Nov. 1971).

  PM speaks about the Beatles and responds to ‘How Do You Sleep?’: Melody Maker (20 Nov. 1971). JL’s open letter to PM: Melody Maker (4 Dec. 1971).

  Trouble with Cavendish neighbours: the dispute with Mrs Griswold was documented in the Sunday People (21 Jan. 1972). Also author’s interview with former neighbour Evelyn Grumi.

  Henry McCullough joins Wings: author’s interview with Laine and McCullough (both quoted).

  PM on LM being ‘absolute rubbish’ on keyboards: South Bank Show (Jan. 1978).

  ‘Give Ireland Back to the Irish’: author’s interviews and press coverage. PM’s comments from contemporaneous TV news footage.

  University tour: author’s interviews with McCullough and Seiwell and contemporaneous press coverage in Melody Maker (various). Also Newsweek (29 Oct. 1973); Daily Express (9 Feb. 1977); The Best of the Beatles Book (Dean) and Club Sandwich # 40.

  Sun ad: the Sun (21 Feb. 1972).

  LM’s analysis of Irish problem: Melody Maker (26 Feb. 1972).

  Reader’s letter: Melody Maker (4 March 1972).

  Stelly nickname: PM to Daily Telegraph (10 March 2001).

  ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’: author’s interview with Laine (quoted). Also Club Sandwich # 64 (the Basil Brush Show).

  Wings Over Europe tour: author’s interviews with Laine, McCullough and Seiwell (quoted). Also press coverage.

  Denny Laine meets Jo Jo Patrie: author’s interview with Laine except quote about groupies, which is from his 1 Feb. 1984 interview with the Sun.

  Smoking dope on Wings Over Europe tour: author’s interviews with McCullough and Seiwell; and Denny Laine’s Sun interview (1 Feb. 1984).

  Gothenburg bust: author’s interviews with McCullough and Seiwell (quoted) and press reports.

  Scottish bust: author’s interview with PM’s lawyer Len Murray (quoted) and contemporaneous press reports including the Evening News (8 March 1973 [PM’s quotes]).

  Conversation between PM and McCullough and his quotes: author’s interview with McCullough.

  Making Red Rose Speedway: author’s interviews with Glyn Johns and Denny Seiwell (both quoted).

  James Paul McCartney: footage of the ATV show.

  Recording ‘Live and Let Die’: All You Need is Ears (Martin).

  17: IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY

  Wings’ 1973 UK tour: author’s interviews with band members and press coverage.

  Changes to Liverpool: Liverpool 800 (Belchem) and Liverpool (Sharples).

  Closure of the Cavern: The Cavern (Leigh [includes PM quote]).

  Purchase of Waterfall: author’s local enquiries and interviews; land and property records.

  Purchase of Nor Va Jak Music: PM quoted from Playboy (Dec. 1984); Club Sandwich # 21 and 39; and the Evening Standard (15 Feb. 1973). Thanks also to Lilian Marshall.

  Lamborghini: Evening News (13 Dec. 1972).

  LM’s necklace: Cosmopolitan (Jan. 1973).

  McCullough and Seiwell leave Wings: author’s interviews (quoted); thanks also to Denny and Monique Seiwell for consulting their diaries.

  Duncan McLean and Denny Laine quoted from author’s interviews.

  Henry McCullough quoted from author’s interview.

  PM’s dialogue - ‘What the Hell’s going on?’ - repor
ted by Denny Laine in his interview with the author.

  Making Band on the Run: author’s interview with Laine; liner notes and supplementary interview material for the 25th anniversary edition of the album; Club Sandwich # 68; and Here, There and Everywhere (Emerick [from which the engineer is quoted]).

  Uncle Will Stapleton: see notes to Chapter 1.

  The McCartneys in Kintyre: author’s interviews with the Black family, Rory Colville (quoted) and their vet Alastair Cousin (quoted).

  US visa problems: PM to Newsweek (29 Oct. 1973).

  JL’s visa problems and his Lost Weekend: John Lennon: The Life (Norman) and The Lives of John Lennon (Goldman).

  LM and May Pang friends: author’s interview with Sid Bernstein.

  PM on his advice to JL: Q magazine (Oct. 1986).

  Tennessee working holiday: author’s interview with Curly Putman Jr and Club Sandwich # 71.

  New line-up of Wings: author’s interview with Howie Casey and Denny Laine (both quoted).

  PM quoted on his father’s song: Standing Stone liner notes.

  John, Paul, George, Ringo … & Bert: author’s interview with Willy Russell (quoted).

  Beatles partnership dissolved: Daily Telegraph (10 Jan. 1975).

  Making Venus and Mars: author’s interview with Denny Laine (quoted).

  Prince Stash on the Mother’s Pride commercial: author’s interview.

  Laine on McCulloch: author’s interview (quoted).

  PM on Linda vis-à-vis Billy Preston: Sunday Times magazine (April 1976).

  LA bust: press reports and author’s interview with Peter Brown (quoted).

  Blair Sabol on Linda McCartney: the Village Voice (14 April 1975).

  GH’s problems: Wonderful Today (Boyd) and The Beatles After the Break-Up (Badman).

  McCartneys visit the Dakota Christmas 1975: Bob Gruen quoted from Linda McCartney (Fields).

  Mal Evans’ death: the Anthology (book), Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Miles) and an article about Evans’s diaries by Mark Edmonds published online at http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com.

  Jim McCartney’s last days: author’s interviews with family members and neighbours including Doug Mackenzie (quoted).