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  4. Joe Goodden, Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs (London: Pepper and Pearl, 2017), 136; Womack, Beatles Encyclopedia, 2:818.

  5. Spitz, The Beatles, 693.

  6. Spitz, The Beatles, 667–68.

  7. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 200.

  8. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 201.

  9. Paul Gambaccini, Paul McCartney: In His Own Words (New York: Flash, 1976), 47–48.

  10. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 110.

  11. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 110.

  12. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 111.

  13. Coleman, Man Who Made the Beatles, 321.

  14. Martin, With a Little Help, 162.

  15. Tim Riley, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (New York: Knopf, 1988), 205.

  16. Christopher Porterfield, “Pop Music: The Messengers,” Time, September 22, 1967, 60; Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 7.

  17. Priore, Smile, chap. 13.

  18. Priore, Smile, chap. 13.

  19. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 114.

  20. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 257.

  21. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 162; Spitz, The Beatles, 700.

  22. Andy Babiuk, Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four’s Instruments, from Stage to Studio (San Francisco: Backbeat, 2001), 206.

  23. Badman, Beatles Off the Record, 292.

  24. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 206.

  25. Martin, Playback, 176–77.

  26. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 192.

  27. Turner interview, July 4, 2017.

  28. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 206.

  29. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 120; Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 193; Winn, That Magic Feeling, 2:111.

  30. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 122; Coleman, Man Who Made the Beatles, 335.

  31. Coleman, Man Who Made the Beatles, 340; Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 194.

  32. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 178.

  33. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 122.

  34. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 162–63.

  15: “We’ve Fuckin’ Had It”

  1. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 164.

  2. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 164.

  3. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 163.

  4. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 165.

  5. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 165; Coleman, Man Who Made the Beatles, 379–80.

  6. Lennon, Lennon Remembers (New York: Verso, 2000), 25; Spitz, The Beatles, 720–21; Tony Barrow, The Making of the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour (London: Omnibus, 1999), 6.

  7. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 122.

  8. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 214.

  9. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 214.

  10. Winn, That Magic Feeling, 2:121.

  11. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 122.

  12. Black, What’s It All About?, 158.

  13. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 191.

  14. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 214; Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 126.

  15. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 216.

  16. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 126; Martin, “‘They Were My Boys, the Greatest in the World’: An Interview with George Martin (1993),” interview with Bill DeYoung, Bill DeYoung website, January 3, 2016, www.billdeyoung.com/tag/george-martin-beatles/; Ken Scott, Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust: Off the Record with the Beatles, Bowie, Elton, and So Much More (Los Angeles: Alfred Music, 2012), chap. 3.

  17. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 127.

  18. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 215.

  19. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 215.

  20. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 129.

  21. Nick Jones, “New Singles Including the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Buffalo Springfield,” Melody Maker, November 18, 1967, n.p.; Richard Goldstein, “Are They Waning?,” New York Times, December 31, 1967, 62.

  22. Steve Turner, The Complete Beatles Songs: The Stories Behind Every Track Written by the Fab Four (London: Carlton, 2015), 337; Black, What’s It All About?, 159.

  23. Nick Logan, “Sky-High with the Beatles,” NME, November 26, 1967, n.p.

  24. “Platter Chatter: Albums by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, and Kaleidoscope,” Hit Parader, April 1968, n.p.

  25. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 177.

  26. Badman, Beatles Off the Record, 332.

  27. Spitz, The Beatles, 734.

  28. Badman, Beatles Off the Record, 332–33.

  29. Take a Ride Through the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour (WCBS-FM, 2011), radio playlist; Martin, Playback, 178; Martin, “Making of Sgt. Pepper.”

  16: All That and a Bar of Chocolate

  1. Black, What’s It All About?, 158.

  2. Black, What’s It All About?, 159.

  3. “How We Met: Cilla Black and Sir George Martin,” interviews with Anthi Charalambous, Independent, March 29, 1998, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-cilla-black-and-sir-george-martin-1153302.html.

  4. Du Noyer, Liverpool, Wondrous Place, 193–94.

  5. Du Noyer, Liverpool, Wondrous Place, 193–94.

  6. Everett, Beatles as Musicians, 153.

  7. Lennon and Ono, All We Are Saying, 267.

  8. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 133.

  9. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 133.

  10. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 133.

  11. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 221.

  12. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 134.

  13. Chris Welch, “Beatles Recall All Our Yesterdays,” Melody Maker, March 9, 1968, 17; “Spotlight Singles,” Billboard, March 16, 1968, 78.

  14. Al Brodax, Up Periscope: The Making of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine (New York: Limelight, 2004), chap. 7.

  15. Martin, Playback, 186.

  16. Martin, Playback, 186.

  17. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 228.

  18. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 35.

  19. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 228–29.

  20. Nancy Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love: An Eyewitness Account of When Spirituality Spread from the East to the West (San Diego, CA: Jodere, 2003), 237, 244.

  21. Robert Rodriguez, interview with author, December 21, 2017.

  22. Spitz, The Beatles, 727–28, 731; Jay Spangler, “John Lennon & Paul McCartney: Apple Press Conference 5/14/1968,” The Beatles Interview Database, www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1968.0514pc.beatles.html.

  23. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 171.

  24. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 172.

  25. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 173.

  26. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 234.

  27. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 233.

  28. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 233; John Kurlander, interview with author, November 8, 2017.

  29. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 136.

  30. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 137; Winn, That Magic Feeling, 2:175.

  31. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 239.

  32. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 138.

  33. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 242.

  34. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 139; Dowlding, Beatlesongs, 250.

  17: The Great Tape Recorder Robbery

  1. Renata Adler, “Yellow Submarine,” New York Times, November 14, 1968, www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173DAF2CA7494CC1B779948D6896.

  2. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 292.

  3. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 219.

  4. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 141.

  5. Lennon and Ono, All We Are Saying, 187; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 252.


  6. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 298.

  7. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 142.

  8. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 255.

  9. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 256.

  10. Ken Scott, “Beatles’ Recording Engineer Ken Scott Reveals Behind the Scenes Details on Working with the Fab Four,” interview with Marshall Terrill, Daytrippin’, July 25, 2012, http://daytrippin.com/2012/07/25/beatles-recording-engineer-ken-scott-reveals-behind-the-scenes-details-on-working-with-the-fab-four/.

  11. Winn, That Magic Feeling, 2:192; Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 144.

  12. Badman, Beatles Off the Record, 397.

  13. Elliot J. Huntley, Mystical One: George Harrison After the Breakup of the Beatles (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2004), 26; Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 145.

  14. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 145; George Martin, “The Producer Series, Part 1,” interview with Ralph Denver, Studio Sound, January 1985, 58.

  15. Massey, Great British Recording Studios, chap. 6.

  16. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 146.

  17. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 58.

  18. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 146.

  19. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 297.

  20. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 261.

  21. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 298.

  22. Craig Cross, The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record (New York: iUniverse, 2005), 368.

  23. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 147.

  24. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 148; Scott, Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust, chap. 4.

  25. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 149.

  26. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 305.

  27. The Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 305.

  28. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 151.

  29. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 312.

  30. Steve Matteo, Let It Be (New York: Continuum, 2004), 18.

  31. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 153.

  18: Up on the Roof

  1. Scott, Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust, chap. 4; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 261.

  2. Scott, Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust, chap. 4; Scott, “Behind the Scenes Details.”

  3. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 8; John Van der Kiste, Jeff Lynne: Electric Light Orchestra—Before and After (Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media, 2015), chap. 1.

  4. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 161.

  5. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 162; Scott interview, June 2, 2017.

  6. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 162; Scott, Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust, chap. 4.

  7. Jann S. Wenner, “Review: The Beatles’ White Album,” Rolling Stone, December 12, 1967, www.rollingstone.com/music/features/beatles-19681221.

  8. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 8.

  9. Ryan and Kehew, Recording the Beatles, 476.

  10. Martin, Playback, 186–87.

  11. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 8; Spitz, The Beatles, 811; Martin, Playback, 186–87.

  12. Glyn Johns, Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces (New York: Blue Rider, 2014), 123.

  13. Peter Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be: The Beatles (New York: Schirmer, 1998), 10.

  14. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 78.

  15. Turner interview, July 4, 2017; Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt, Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of the Beatles’ Let It Be Disaster (New York: Griffin, 1997), 74; Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 20; Matteo, Let It Be, 48.

  16. Martin, Playback, 187.

  17. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 24–27, 29, 34.

  18. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 11, 12.

  19. Sulpy and Schweighardt, Get Back, 124, 170.

  20. Tony Barrell, The Beatles on the Roof (London: Omnibus, 2017), chap. 2; Martin, Playback, 187.

  21. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 33; Sulpy and Schweighardt, Get Back, 176.

  22. Sulpy and Schweighardt, Get Back, 169.

  23. Martin, Playback, 187; Babiuk, Beatles Gear, 263; Barrell, Beatles on the Roof, chap. 3.

  24. Martin, Playback, 187; Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 166; Johns, Sound Man, 128; Miles, Paul McCartney, 532–33; Barrell, Beatles on the Roof, chap. 3.

  25. Johns, Sound Man, 140; Sulpy and Schweighardt, Get Back, 232; Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 38; Ryan and Kehew, Recording the Beatles, 506; Beatles, Beatles Anthology, television documentary.

  26. Sulpy and Schweighardt, Get Back, 227; Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 166.

  27. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 40.

  28. Martin, Playback, 187.

  29. Matteo, Let It Be, 83.

  30. Martin, Playback, 188.

  31. Martin, Playback, 188; Matteo, Let It Be, 86; Ryan and Kehew, Recording the Beatles, 506.

  32. Martin, Playback, 188; Barrell, Beatles on the Roof, chap. 4.

  19: Come Together

  1. Winn, That Magic Feeling, 2:263.

  2. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 262.

  3. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 262.

  4. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 263.

  5. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 264.

  6. Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 179.

  7. Johns, Sound Man, 140.

  8. Martin, Playback, 188.

  9. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 9.

  10. Leigh, Love Me Do, chap. 9.

  11. Beatles, Beatles Anthology, 337.

  12. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 269.

  13. Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 271.

  14. “Remembering the Forgotten Beatle,” Rolling Stone, December 5, 2001, 9.

  15. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 173.

  16. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 174.

  17. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 49; Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 58.

  18. “Stereo Rattles Stations; Mfrs. Strangle Monaural,” Billboard, January 6, 1968, 1; Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 58.

  19. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 58; Lewisohn, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, 14; Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 48.

  20. Everett, Beatles as Musicians, 245; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 277.

  21. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 58–59.

  22. Doggett, Abbey Road/Let It Be, 59–60.

  23. Lennon and Ono, All We Are Saying, 202.

  24. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 14.

  25. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 180.

  26. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 181.

  27. Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 183.

  28. Kurlander interview, November 8, 2017; Lewisohn, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, 183.

  29. Martin, “Producer Series, Part 1,” 59.

  30. George Martin, “The Producer Series, Part 2,” interview with Ralph Denver, Studio Sound, February 1985, 54; Lewisohn, Recording Sessions, 185; George Martin, “To Sir with Love,” interview with Larry the O, Electronic Musician, January 7, 2009, www.emusician.com/gear/1332/to-sir-with-love/40689.

  31. Kurlander interview, November 8, 2017; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 287.

  32. Kurlander interview, November 8, 2017; Emerick and Massey, Here, There, and Everywhere, 295; “100 Greatest Beatles Songs,” Rolling Stone, September 29, 2011, www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919.

 

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