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11 In the early years of his career the guitarist went by the name Richard, later reverting to his given name of Richards, which I have used throughout.
12 Jailed in 2001 for perjury.
13 In the sense that homosexuality itself was still illegal in the UK.
14 Nonetheless, Live at the Hollywood Bowl was finally issued in 1977.
15 Because the British albums were released - with the notable exception of Let it Be - as the Beatles intended, this book deals with the band’s LPs under the British titles.
16 Harold Wilson, a Labour MP representing a Liverpool constituency, had become Prime Minister in October 1964, promising to reforge Britain in ‘the white heat [of] the scientific revolution’.
17 The current Madison Square Garden, built in 1968, holds 20,000.
18 Sweating ‘cobs’ (cobwebs) being a phrase that seems to derive from the patterns of sweat that streak the faces of pit workers, and one Paul would use in his excellent 2007 song ‘That Was Me’.
19 At the time refugees were facing starvation in the former British colony of Nigeria, which was engaged in a civil war with breakaway Biafra. Lennon evidently felt Britain should do more to help. ‘Cold Turkey’ was his current single.
20 Approached in connection with this book, Jane, now in her 60s, replied politely but firmly that she wouldn’t diverge from her ‘blanket rule’ not to discuss Paul.
21 Then worth approximately £1,893 (or $2,896).
22 Overthrown in 1986, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled to the USA where they were indicted for racketeering. Mrs Marcos was later acquitted and allowed to return to the Philippines where she was found guilty of corruption. Her husband died in 1989.
23 Correctly: ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle …’ Richard II, Act II, Scene I.
24 Possibly an administrative cock-up. When he moved apartment some years later, Bernstein says he discovered a box of sold tickets which his assistant had failed to mail out.
25 ‘Penny Lane’ did make number one in the USA.
26 Jones was sentenced to nine months in jail, soon released on bail in light of his fragile mental state, while Prince Stash was discharged.
27 Starr had bought a house near John Lennon on the St George’s Hill Estate.
28 The Beatles did play to a pre-recorded rhythm track, to cut down on the chance of a live mistake.
29 And indeed that’s all she got - her scene was cut.
30 Paul was not the walrus, contrary to what Lennon sings in ‘Glass Onion’.
31 Though Paul did exactly this later.
32 Martin once told NEMS employee Geoffrey Ellis: ‘Sometimes when a reporter asks me for a quote on what the Beatles are really like, I’m tempted to answer: “they’re the same stupid, arrogant bastards they always were”.’
33 Not, alas, a witty policeman’s reference to the Maharishi, but to Hanna-Barbera’s cartoon bear. A companion dog was named Boo Boo.
34 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists the White Album officially as the band’s best-selling US album with 19 million sales, but the RIAA counts each disc as a sale, meaning this double album has actually sold 9.5 million units in the USA. Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper have both sold more.
35 There was still a normal Christmas record for Beatles fans.
36 Paraphrasing Luke 9:58.
37 In the British and US markets, 1962-70.
38 In 2003 Spector was charged with murdering his girlfriend, Lana Clarkson. He was convicted in 2009.
39 Queen’s Counsel, a senior barrister.
40 Translates as ‘What’s happening in the little town?’ - the ‘wee toon’ being Campbeltown.
41 Eight tracks were listed on the original LP, plus two instrumental interludes listed as additional tracks when the album was re-released on CD.
42 Tony Clark, one of the engineers.
43 ‘Happy Xmas (War is Over)’ never charted in the US. It reached number 4 in the UK in 1972.
44 At least it didn’t happen to Seiwell. Laine was put on such a deal later, as we shall see.
45 When McCartney told his father he’d recorded a song he wrote, Dad replied that he’d never written any music. ‘When I sang “Walking in the Park with Eloise” to him,’ said Paul, ‘he said, “Oh, that one. Oh I made it up, but I didn’t write it.”’
46 Never used.
47 In April 1976, Paul changed his company’s name to MPL Communications.
48 Denny and Jo Jo married in November 1978.
49 Ringo divorced Maureen Starkey in 1975, and took up with the American actress Barbara Bach, who later became his second wife.
50 If Paul were to be knighted, which he eventually was, Linda would properly be addressed as Lady McCartney.
51 While making music on such a day might seem strange, it is worth remembering that George Harrison did exactly the same, working on a new album in his home studio at Friar Park.
52 Closed in 1984, to make way for the Broadgate office development.
53 Jo Jo Laine claimed Linda used cocaine on tour with Wings in the 1970s, and later in his career Paul admitted to having experimented with cocaine and heroin before his marriage.
54 As Paul travelled between his office and Elstree, it is interesting to think he may well have passed his future wife, Heather Mills, then a 16-year-old waitress in a Soho wine bar.
55 Webb believes Paul may have talked to Lester about the film, but the director declined to get involved.
56 Eric Clapton was eventually inducted three times: as a member of the Yardbirds, Cream and as a solo artist.
57 Martin turned 68 in 1994.
58 Paul’s knighthood was one of the first given to a pop star, predated only by Sir Cliff Richard (1995). These rock ’n’ roll KBEs proved so popular with the public that HM’s Government started handing them out almost like toffees. Elton John was knighted in 1998, then came Sir Mick Jagger (2003), even Sir Tom Jones (2005), but never Sir George Harrison or Sir Ringo Starr, which further set Paul apart from the boys.
59 The film-maker was knighted in 1995, elevated to the peerage as Lord Puttnam in 1997.
60 The friend disputed Heather’s published account of these events in Out on a Limb, and took legal action against Heather for identifying her in the book and falsifying events. She won compensation.
61 Surely fun fur. Paul and Heather were both fiercely anti-fur.
62 Knighted in 2000.
63 The Queen’s Coronation was held in 1953, but she actually became Queen the previous year when her father George VI died, making 2002 the Golden Jubilee.
64 There are three main residences on the Sussex estate, plus other houses that stand empty or are used by staff, in addition to nearby properties at Hog Hill, Rye and Hove; with other homes in London, Merseyside, Scotland, New York City, Long Island, Arizona and Los Angeles.
65 Ley lines, tarot, astrology and transcendental meditation have all held his interest.
66 As the official inquiry into her death found, Princess Diana was killed in a car accident at the hands of a speeding chauffeur who had exceeded the legal drink-drive limit.
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