48 CONGRATULATIONS BOYS: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 128.

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50 “It was like heaven, where the great gods live”: Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, vol. 1, The Beatles: All These Years (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013), 641.

50 “None of us really knows how to read or write music”: Al Aronowitz, “Beatlemania in 1964: ‘This Has Gotten Entirely Out of Control,’” Saturday Evening Post, March 1964; reprinted in The Guardian, January 29, 2014.

51 “not all that impressed”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 643.

51 “pick up George from the canteen”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 643.

51 “That was how my mind was working at the beginning”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 161.

51 “a load of noise, hum, and goodness-knows-what”: “Recording: Besame Mucho, Love Me Do, PS I Love You, Ask Me Why—The Beatles’ first Abbey Road Recording Session,” BeatlesBible.com.

52 “you’re going to have a song called Love Me Waahhh”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 644.

52 puts aside his electric guitar and picks up an acoustic: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 45.

52 Everything stopped, no backing: Lewisohn, Tune In, 644.

52 “Well that was twenty minutes of torture”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 645.

52 “We’ve got to change this drummer”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 643.

53 “He was giving them a good talking to”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 645.

53 “They didn’t say a word back, not a word”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 645.

53 “Well, for a start, I don’t like your tie”: Mark Savage, “When George Martin Met the Beatles: The Story of Love Me Do,” BBC, March 9, 2016.

53 “Phew! What do you think of that lot then?”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 645.

53 “it wasn’t their music, it was their charisma”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 645–46.

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54 “unable to deal with the emotional side of that”: Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, vol. 1, The Beatles: All These Years (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013), 651.

54 keep Pete: Lewisohn, Tune In, 651.

54 “Paul was showing Pete the drum pattern he wanted”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 326.

54 “Pete was holding us back”: Paul McCartney, interview by Tony Fletcher, Jamming 14 (1983), quoted in Lewisohn, Tune In, 651.

55 “We want Pete out and Ringo in”: Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise (London: Souvenir Press, 1964; reprinted New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 126.

55 “I knew the Beatles were gonna go places”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 674.

55 “they weren’t at the dismissal”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 674.

56 “To be so aware, with so little education”: Michael Braun, “Love Me Do!”: The Beatles’ Progress (Los Angeles and New York: Graymalkin Media, 2019), 43.

56 “From that moment on, it gelled”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 678.

56 “Pete Best forever, Ringo never!”: Philip Norman, “The Nowhere Men,” Daily Mail, March 5, 2002.

56 “why get a bad-looking cat when you can get a good-looking one”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 151.

56 “the most hated man in Liverpool”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 275.

57 “I sneaked in and sneaked out again”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 684.

57 “You’re too young!”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 684.

57 “Cyn is having a baby”: Davies, The Beatles, 153.

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