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Lennon

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by Tim Riley


  baby given up by, 15–16

  birth of, 5

  death of, 82–85, 86, 89, 92, 94, 96, 131, 164, 165, 263, 289, 383, 552, 625

  grave of, 658

  JL’s audio diary and, 623–26

  JL’s birth and, 3, 4, 10–12

  JL’s early childhood and, 12–13, 20–24

  marital troubles with Alfred, 17, 19, 21

  meets and marries Alfred, 8–10

  Lennon, Mary “Polly” McGuire (grandmother), 7, 659

  Lennon, Pauline (Alfred’s second wife), 9, 20, 507–9, 611–12

  Lennon, Sean Taro Ono (son), x, 592, 606–8, 611–12, 616, 618, 619, 623, 627, 635, 654, 659

  birth of, 596, 605–6, 611, 626

  Douglas and, 654

  JL’s death and, 647–48, 650, 652, 656

  Lennon, Sydney (uncle), 7, 10, 17, 19, 24

  Lennon, Yoko Ono, see Ono, Yoko

  Lennon Remembers, 509–12

  Lester, Richard, 203, 248, 250, 269, 270, 271, 275, 290, 321, 336, 341

  Lester, Sheryl, 648

  “Let It Be,” 453, 496, 531, 657

  Let It Be (album), 172, 211, 370, 397, 448–49, 453, 459, 487–89, 493–97, 509, 511, 520, 522, 526, 527, 600

  Let It Be (film), 406, 427–39, 448, 488, 493–94, 496–97, 509

  Let It Be . . . Naked, 495

  Levin, Tony, 636

  Levy, Morris, 585–86, 595, 613–14

  Lewis, Jerry, 556

  Lewis, Jerry Lee, 50, 67, 68, 77, 93–94, 136, 137, 231, 317, 461, 598, 635

  Lewis, Vic, 332

  Lewisohn, Mark, 93, 135, 204–5

  Life, 246, 343, 511, 519, 548

  Lindsay-Hogg, Michael, 216, 428, 431, 432, 435, 436, 439

  Literary Lennon, The: A Comedy of Letters (Sauceda), 262–63

  Little Richard, 50, 53–55, 62, 68, 90, 94, 96, 109, 122, 128, 136, 214, 231, 238, 242, 243, 414, 433, 461, 562, 599

  Liverpool, 5–6, 43–44, 104, 107, 284, 514, 615, 623

  Beatles’ gigs in, 121–23, 127–30, 132, 135, 153, 179–81, 211, 217

  Beatles tourism in, 658

  Cavern Club in, see Cavern Club

  Ono and, 659

  in World War II, 3–4, 11, 12

  Liverpool Art College, 67, 73–74, 76, 81–82, 85, 86–87, 89, 91, 93, 131, 132, 150

  Liverpool Institute, 35, 38–39, 74, 76, 77

  Livingston, Alan, 229

  Lockwood, Joseph, ix, 420, 442

  London, 156–57, 169, 196, 284–85, 615

  “Long and Winding Road, The,” 439, 488–89, 494, 495

  Look Back in Anger, 37

  Los Angeles Times, 376–77, 576

  Love, xi, 660

  “Love Me Do,” 136, 177, 178, 188–92, 205, 206, 211, 244

  Love Me Do! (Braun), 199, 239, 248

  Loving John (Pang), 568, 583

  Lowe, John, 80, 81

  “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” 295, 329, 332, 343, 353, 354, 563, 587

  Lush, Richard, 500

  Lynn, Stephan, 641

  MacDonald, Ian, 344–45, 554

  MacDonald, Phil, 500

  Macmillan, Harold, 196, 198

  Macmillan, Iain, 459–60

  “Magical Mystery Tour,” 347, 348

  Magical Mystery Tour, 350, 366–69, 370–72, 376–77, 412, 421, 424, 426, 428

  Magic Christian, The, 427, 428, 442, 459

  Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (McKinney), 107

  Magritte, René, xiii, 410–11

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 272, 360–67, 379–85

  Mahon, Gene, 410

  Mailer, Norman, 372, 614

  Makin, Rex, 149

  Manchester, 181

  Mann, William, 351, 503

  Mao Zedong, 413, 517, 528, 553

  Marcos, Ferdinand, 313–15, 320

  Marcos, Imelda, 313–15

  Marcus, Greil, 53, 201, 333, 355, 413

  Mardas, Alex, 359, 378, 379, 382, 383, 395, 396, 401, 432, 486

  Marsden, Beryl, 486

  Marsden, Gerry, 129

  Marsh, Dave, 506, 554, 620, 626–27

  Martin, George, x, xi, 137, 142, 160, 161, 167–75, 186–92, 196, 204–6, 229, 232, 248, 259, 268, 274, 290, 312–13, 328, 335, 344, 350, 447, 458, 488, 571, 630, 656, 660

  background of, 168

  bass sounds and, 305–6

  Beatles’ first recording session with, 167–68, 173–75, 177–80

  “Because,” 459

  Best and, 183, 185

  “Day in the Life,” 342, 343

  “Eleanor Rigby,” 302, 309

  Epstein and, 167, 172–75, 231

  “I Am the Walrus,” 368

  JL’s relationship with, 150, 174

  knighthood of, 655

  Let It Be and, 429, 432–33, 448, 494, 495

  made Parlophone head, 168

  McCartney and, 302–3

  recording techniques of, 169–70, 171, 304

  Revolver, 308–9

  Rubber Soul, 281–82

  “Strawberry Fields Forever,” 325, 327

  White Album, 407–8, 411–12

  “Yesterday,” 279

  Martin, Giles, xi, 660

  Mason, Dave, 339

  Mathews, Mike, 612

  Matthew, Brian, 220, 344

  Maysles, Albert and David, 233, 246

  McBain, Charlie, 77

  McCarthy, Eugene, 372, 374, 375

  McCartney, 480, 488–91, 497, 501, 512, 520, 522, 527

  McCartney, Heather, 477, 494

  McCartney, Jim, 63–66, 75, 148

  McCartney, Jin, 66

  McCartney, Joe, 63

  McCartney, Linda Eastman, 431, 441, 477, 579, 607–8, 612

  background of, 397–98

  death of, 658

  Mary born to, 460, 477

  McCartney’s collaboration with, 530

  McCartney’s marriage to, xi, 397, 398, 443–44, 450

  McCartney, Mary, 460, 477

  McCartney, Mary Mohan, 64, 65–66, 75, 84–85

  McCartney, Michael, 64, 65, 66, 73, 136, 185, 357, 443

  McCartney, Paul, 96, 117, 124, 128, 129, 133, 135, 137, 138, 152–54, 157, 159, 160, 167, 180, 188–91, 193–95, 203, 204, 223, 224, 242, 270, 300, 318, 321, 327, 359, 382, 478, 526, 562, 587, 622, 653, 655–56

  in America, 238

  Apple and, 384–85, 441, 464–65, 512, 513–15, 519–22, 560, 595

  Asher’s relationship with, 284, 301, 334–35, 347, 398, 402

  Bangladesh concert and, 525

  Beatles breakup and, 477, 488–91, 519–20

  Beatles leadership role assumed by, 427–28, 511

  Best and, 179, 183, 184

  birth of, 64

  childhood of, 63–66

  Cynthia Lennon and, 402–3, 406

  Donegan and, 46

  Epstein and, 145, 146, 148, 152, 178, 217

  in Hamburg, 98, 106, 109, 116, 118–21, 132, 162, 164

  in Hard Day’s Night, 251

  Hendrix and, 339, 357, 371

  In His Own Write and, 262, 263

  interviews with, 220, 269, 344, 358, 367, 548

  JL’s competition with, 475–76, 581

  JL’s contact with, after Beatles breakup, 539–40, 548

  JL’s death and, 645, 656–58

  JL’s early friendship with, 63, 66–67, 68, 93

  JL’s feud with, xii, 450–51, 476, 548–49

  and JL’s marriage to Cynthia, 186

  JL’s meeting of, 38, 60–62, 66, 610

  JL’s partnership with, x, xi, xii, 63, 67, 68, 72–73, 81, 84–85, 93, 135–36, 150, 205, 206, 216, 234, 248, 279, 290, 293, 297–98, 302, 323, 328, 330, 332, 337, 345, 352–55, 366, 398–99, 430, 431, 433, 449–50, 459, 476, 511, 656

  JL’s reunion with, 607–8

  knighthood of, 655, 656, 657

  Let It Be and, 487, 488–89, 495–96

  Linda’s marriage to, xi, 397, 398, 443–44, 450

  LSD and, 3
34, 344–45, 358

  Magical Mystery Tour and, 367–69, 371–72

  Oldham and, 221

  Ono and, 323, 398, 403, 456, 579–80, 659–60

  politics and, 551, 554

  Presley and, 51

  in Quarrymen, 62, 72, 76–77, 79–81, 90–93

  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, 659

  Rowe and, 160

  Saturday Night Live and, 612–13

  in school, 74

  Sgt. Pepper album design by, 346, 351, 352, 460

  solo work of, 482, 483, 591, 620, 656–58; see also specific albums and songs

  on Strawberry Field, 326

  Sutcliffe and, 117, 164

  Two Virgins and, ix, x, 449, 657

  McCartney II, 637

  McCluhan, Marshall, 467

  McCracken, Hugh, 536, 636

  McFall, Ray, 127

  McGovern, George, 556

  McGuinn, Roger, 268

  McKinney, Devin, 107

  Meet the Beatles, 234, 236, 241–42, 243

  Mekas, Jonas, 535

  Melody Maker, 548, 563

  Meltzer, Richard, 242, 279

  Mendips, 13, 17–18, 24, 26–27, 28, 44–45, 56, 58, 64, 81, 86, 89, 90, 136, 212, 325, 646

  Merryman, Richard, 519

  Mersey Beat, 133–34, 141, 142, 160, 175, 190, 192, 261

  Michaels, Lorne, 612–13

  Mike Douglas Show, The, 540–44, 549

  Miles, Barry, 66, 234, 303, 304, 323–24, 339, 359, 410, 428, 491, 522

  Milligan, Spike, 86, 135, 171–72, 571–72

  Mills, Heather, 659

  “Mind Games,” 563, 582, 590

  Mind Games, 474, 482, 559, 561, 563–64, 570–72, 574–75, 582–84, 591, 592, 596

  Mintz, Elliot, 554–55, 608, 617, 619, 620, 644

  Mitchell, John N., 604

  Mitchell, Mitch, 425

  Modern Times (Johnson), 42

  Mohan, Dill, 65

  Mojo, 499

  Monkees, 299–300

  Moore, Dudley, 263–64

  Moore, Tommy, 96, 97

  Moran, James, 641

  Morecambe, Eric, 224–26

  Morris, Desmond, 467–69

  Morris, Jan, 5

  Morrison, Van, 46

  Moses, Mark, 474

  Munch, Christopher, 214

  Muni, Scott, 596

  Munroe, Alexandra, 391

  Murray, Charles Shaar, 636–37

  Napier-Bell, Simon, 361–63, 364

  National Lampoon, 511

  Neal, Chris, 177

  NEMS (North End Music Stores), 128, 137, 138, 141–43, 145, 149, 156, 173

  NEMS Enterprises, 175, 191, 211, 332–33, 336, 362, 365, 448, 465

  Nesmith, Michael, 300, 342

  Newby, Chas, 121–22

  Newfield, Joanne, 363

  Newley, Anthony, 140–41

  Newmark, Andy, 636

  New Musical Express (NME), 50, 191, 210, 240, 309, 367, 526, 565, 636

  New York City, 522, 525

  JL’s live appearances in, 523–24

  JL’s relocation to, 475, 526, 527, 534, 535, 537, 539, 540, 550–51

  New Yorker, 229–30, 550–51, 591, 649

  New York Times, 36–37, 351–52, 523, 549, 553, 570–71, 626, 634, 635, 648, 649

  Nicol, Jimmy, 254

  Nielsen, Rick, 630–33

  Nilsson, Harry, 300, 483, 574, 577–78, 579, 583, 587, 627

  Pussy Cats, 474, 561, 578–82

  Nixon, Richard, xi, 374, 424, 425, 492, 524, 532, 538, 549, 550, 553, 556–57, 566, 571, 576, 581, 591–92, 593

  Noguchi, Isamu, 614

  Norman, Philip, 113, 117, 627–28

  Northern Songs, 191, 275, 447–48, 464–65, 520, 603, 655

  Nutter, David, 444

  Nye, Louis, 542

  O’Donnell, Jim, 60–61

  “Oh Yoko!,” 533–34, 591, 592

  Old Grey Whistle Test, 578

  Oldham, Andrew Loog, 96, 155, 202–3, 210, 212, 221–22, 226, 246, 285, 292–93, 303, 311, 358, 440

  O’Mahoney, Sean, 191

  “One After 909,” 72, 73, 136, 180, 210, 211, 436–37, 463, 496

  One Day at a Time (Fawcett), 498–99

  One to One concert, 555–56, 589

  Ono, Eijiro, 388

  Ono, Isoko, 388, 389, 514–15

  Ono, Keisuke, 389

  Ono, Setsuko, 526

  Ono, Tsuruko, 388

  Ono, Yeisuke, 388–89, 390

  Ono, Yoko, 117, 214, 216, 387–94, 427, 437–38, 452–54, 457–58, 460–61, 469, 548, 610, 614–15, 618–20, 654, 659

  Approximately Infinite Universe, 538, 553, 590, 653

  as artist, 323–24, 348–49, 387, 392–94, 418, 421, 515–16, 535, 589

  background and childhood of, 387–92

  Bangladesh concert and, 525, 526, 560

  Beatles and, x, 333, 379, 397, 406, 414, 430–32, 458–59, 528, 542, 659

  Capp and, 456

  on Cavett show, 527–28, 540

  Cynthia Lennon and, 610

  Dakota apartment of, 559, 570

  Double Fantasy, 481, 590–91, 610, 629–40, 650, 651, 660

  drug raid and, 418–20

  drugs used by, 418, 426, 443, 458, 465, 627–28

  Fly, 534, 568

  Gabriel on, 539

  Grapefruit, 323–24, 379, 522, 524, 530

  Gray on, 546

  JL’s bed-ins with, 444–46, 448, 450, 452, 455, 538, 566, 569

  JL’s collaborations with, ix, ix–x, 405, 419, 420–21, 422, 425, 442–43, 444–46, 448, 450–52, 455, 462, 466–67, 473, 477, 501, 530, 537, 539, 610

  JL’s death and, 641–42, 644, 645, 647–60, 652–53, 656

  JL’s marital problems with, 88, 544, 557–58, 563, 591

  JL’s marriage to, xiii, 444, 450–52

  JL’s meeting of, 323–24, 348–49, 378, 446

  JL’s relationship with, x, xi, 377–80, 382–87, 394–96, 397–404, 417–18, 420–21, 477, 533, 611, 651

  JL’s reuniting with, 591, 594, 595–96

  JL’s separation from, 567–73, 575, 576, 579–80, 587–88, 591, 594, 596, 608

  Krauss on, 542, 543

  Leibovitz’s photo of JL and, 638–39, 650–51

  in Let It Be, 430

  Liverpool and, 659

  Marsh on, 554

  McCartney and, 323, 398, 403, 456, 579–80, 659–60

  Mimi and, 610–11

  Mintz and, 554–55

  Nutopia press conference of, 565–66

  Pang and, 568–69, 595

  Plastic Ono Band, 474, 505–7

  pregnancies and miscarriages of, 418, 420–22, 425, 426, 427, 443, 451, 458, 465–66, 469, 596, 605, 608

  in primal therapy, 498–99

  Sean born to, 596, 605–6, 611, 626

  television appearances of, 527–29, 540–55, 546–47, 540, 551, 556

  Tittenhurst property of, 453, 457, 460, 484, 519, 524, 527, 567

  “Walking on Thin Ice,” 638–40

  Zappa and, 523

  Orbison, Roy, 77, 190, 196, 217

  Osborne, John, 37, 197, 224, 248

  O’Shea, John, 380

  Our World, 357, 358–59

  Owen, Alun, 134, 223, 248–50, 286

  Owen, Richard, 593

  Oz, 491

  Palmer, Robert, 635

  Pang, May, 567–69, 570, 572, 580, 581, 583, 584, 592, 595

  Paolozzi, Eduardo, xiii, 126, 128, 131, 162, 391, 416

  “Paperback Writer,” 305, 309, 311, 316

  Parkes, Charles, 28

  Parkes, Stanley, 28–29, 57

  Parnes, Larry, 95, 96–97

  Parsons, Alan, 488

  Pecorino, Joe, 643

  Pedersen, Ingrid, 16

  Peebles, Andy, 637–38

  Peel, David, 545, 546–47, 548, 549

  Pennebaker, D. A., 267, 310

  “Penny Lane,” 274, 304, 328–29, 335, 337, 339, 341, 342, 353, 408

  Pent
agon Papers, 492, 523–24

  Perkins, Carl, 50, 53, 68, 94, 109, 135, 136, 172, 189, 193–94, 242, 243, 260

  Perry, Richard, 565

  Phelge, James, 222

  Philippines, 313–15, 320

  Phillips, Percy, 79–80, 204

  Pickles, Thelma, 87

  Pilcher, Norman, 418–19, 443

  Pink Floyd, 342

  Plastic Ono Band, 536

  Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon), xi, 25, 355, 415, 473–75, 480–82, 500–505, 507, 509, 511, 512, 515, 526, 531, 561, 562, 584, 589, 590, 596, 600, 631

  Plastic Ono Band (Yoko Ono), 474, 505–7

  Playboy, 269, 273, 292, 445, 605, 635, 638, 651

  “Please Please Me,” 136, 190,–92, 202, 205, 209–11, 217, 229, 240, 244, 252, 291

  Please Please Me, 236, 453, 501, 564, 637

  Pobjoy, William Ernest, 38, 40, 67

  Postcards from the Boys (Starr), 289

  Powell, Lillian, 212, 222, 379, 395, 396, 401

  “Power to the People,” 518–19, 537

  Precht, Bob, 228

  Presley, Elvis, 36, 45–46, 51–54, 70, 75, 79, 91, 108, 124, 125, 142, 148, 172, 217, 230, 235–36, 267, 293, 504, 562

  Beatles and, 114, 136, 154, 189, 200, 201, 231, 240–43, 317, 504

  death of, 617–18, 620

  Holly and, 68–69, 70, 72

  influences of, 50–51

  joins army, 72, 94, 96, 243, 321

  JL and, 49, 51–55, 67, 69, 73, 80, 85, 86, 396, 556, 598, 635

  popularity in UK, 49, 50, 52, 53–54, 69

  Preston, Billy, 433–34, 435, 467, 525, 620

  Preuss, Oscar, 168–69

  Price-Jones, Morris, 33

  Primal Scream, The (Janov), 497–98

  Proby, P.J., 270, 275

  Profumo, John, 197–200, 232, 245, 513

  Psychedelic Experience, The: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Leary), 303–4

  Pussy Cats, 474, 561, 578–82

  Quant, Mary, 284, 285

  Quarry Bank High School, 27, 34–35, 36, 38–41, 56, 67, 87

  Quarrymen, 31, 44, 59–62, 71–73, 77–81, 85, 90–93, 96, 122, 172, 204

  “Rain,” 305, 306, 308, 309, 311, 316, 329, 371

  Ram, 501, 514, 526–27, 530, 536, 548, 549

  Ray, Johnnie, 50–51

  Reagan, Ronald, 425, 492, 637, 646, 651

  Redding, Noel, 556

  Redgrave, Vanessa, 375

  Red Mole, 515–18

  Rees-Mogg, William, 348

  “Revolution,” x, 376, 403, 404–6, 408, 410, 412–17, 423–26, 428–30, 473, 482, 485, 503, 504, 506, 515, 517, 518, 524, 528, 545

  Revolver, 266, 288–92, 301–3, 307–12, 316, 318, 320, 328, 331–32, 336, 351–52, 354, 356, 370, 430, 474

  Ribowsky, Mark, 572

  Richard, Cliff, 69, 76, 125, 178, 196, 237

  Richards, Keith, 221, 226, 266, 293, 303, 334, 342, 347–48, 419–20, 425, 656

  Richards, Ron, 177

 

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