40 “Ha-ha, John Lennon, no more scruffs for you”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 115.

40 “Groups of four guitarists are on the way out”: Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise (London: Souvenir Press, 1964; reprinted New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 108.

40 “These boys are going to explode”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 558.

40 “The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things”: Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise, 110.

41 “Do you know Tony Meehan?”: “Tony Meehan,” The Telegraph, November 30, 2005.

41 “firsthand experience of what the teenagers want”: Melody Maker, December 9, 1961, quoted in Lewisohn, Tune In, 559.

41 “the Group have received an offer of a recording Contract from another Company”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 560.

41 “It was just a complete mess, as things generally are—a dreadful corporate blunder”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 561.

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42 “I hope he kicks himself to death”: Michael Braun, “Love Me Do!”: The Beatles’ Progress (Los Angeles and New York: Graymalkin Media, 2019), 35.

42 “I think Decca expected us to be all polished”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 132.

42 “We didn’t sound natural”: Braun, “Love Me Do!,” 60.

43 “John was always a little bit sarcastic”: “Beatles’ Photographer Astrid Kirchherr Opens Up,” Fresh Air, NPR.org, January 15, 2008.

43 “Pete couldn’t have the hairstyle anyway because he had curly hair”: “Beatles’ Photographer Astrid Kirchherr Opens Up.”

43 “The Beatles were the stuff that screams were made of”: Davies, The Beatles, 94.

43 the best FM: Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, vol. 1, The Beatles: All These Years (New York: Crown Archetype: 2013), 581.

44 “We weren’t just recording stars”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 582.

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45 “as the name Beatles doesn’t mean anything they’ll have to change it”: Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, vol. 1, The Beatles: All These Years (New York: Crown Archetype: 2013), 590.

45 “the shorter the name the bigger the print”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 590.

45 “It was Us against Them”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 137.

45 “What are we going to do?”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 591.

46 “Hello, where’s Stu?”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 125.

46 “saying ‘No, no, no!’ and lashing out with his hands”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 263.

46 “Paul tried to be comforting”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 603.

46 “sitting on a bench, huddled over”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 603.

46 “Not many of our contemporaries had died”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 69.

47 John and the boys remain in Hamburg: Davies, The Beatles, 111.

47 “Could you take a picture of me there?”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 617.

47 “a little lonely feller”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 617.

47 “so much strength in his face”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 617.

47 “I depended on him to tell me the truth”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 69.

47 “people he loved the most always left him”: Norman, John Lennon, 269.

47 “You can’t just cry all the time, you’ve got to get on”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 618.

47 “so many pills that he literally wouldn’t be able to shut his eyes”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 155.

48 “John came onstage dressed like a cleaning-woman”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 608.

48 “It gave me shivers to watch it”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 608.