58 “what are we going to do with this?”: Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, vol. 1, The Beatles: All These Years (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013), 671.

59 “Double the speed”: Debbie Geller, In My Life: The Brian Epstein Story, ed. Anthony Wall (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000), 54.

59 “We want to record our own material”: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 45.

59 “write something as good as that song”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 139.

59 straight to number 1: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 139.

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60 “make your name with that”: Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, vol. 1, The Beatles: All These Years (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013), 715.

60 “Remember I said I’d be famous”: Rupert Christiansen, The Complete Book of Aunts (New York: Twelve, 2007), 37.

60 “The whole of Liverpool went out”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 720.

60 “thought there was a fiddle on”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 721.

61 “almost paralyzed with devotion”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 141.

61 deems both Paul and George “sweet”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 164.

61 “They have a real authentic Negro sound”: Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 73.

61 “most startling of all the American city folk singers”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 640.

61 the Ealing Club: Vincent Dowd, “The Club Where the Who First Rocked,” BBC, November 12, 2017.

62 “The Stones were playing little clubs in London”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 722.

62 “I want a long coat like that”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 101.

62 “Twenty-seven was the height”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 749.

62 “We went in young boys”: Lewisohn, Tune In, 803.

63 “would it be better to keep it simple?”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 96.

63 “It’s a good logo, like Rodgers and Hammerstein”: Alex Bilmes, “Paul McCartney Is Esquire’s August Cover Star,” Esquire, February 7, 2015.

63 “‘We’re the grooves and you two just watch it’”: George Harrison, interview by Alan Freeman, BBC Radio 1, December 6, 1974, quoted in Lewisohn, Tune In, 831.

63 “The thing I like about the Beatles is their great sense of humor”: George Martin, interview by Alan Smith in Mersey Beat, January 3, 1963, quoted in Lewisohn, Tune In, 774.

64 “Gentlemen, you’ve just made your first number one record”: George Martin with Jeremy Hornsby, All You Need Is Ears: The Story of the Recording Genius Who Created the Beatles (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979), 130.

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65 “I was always bitterly ashamed of it”: Jody Rosen, “The Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’ 50th Anniversary,” Rolling Stone, March 22, 2013.

66 won’t tour America until they’ve achieved a number-one hit: Chris Ingham, The Rough Guide to the Beatles (London: Rough Guides, 2003), 25.

66 “We knew we would wipe you out if we could just get a grip on you”: Richard Harrington, “The Lennon Legend,” Washington Post, December 14, 1980.

66 September 1963 visit to Benton, Illinois: “George Harrison Holidays with His Sister Louise in Benton, IL, USA,” BeatlesBible.com.