138 “an old poster advertising a variety show that starred Mr. Kite”: David Rybaczewski, “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!,” Beatlesebooks.com.

138 “I don’t mind Engelbert Humperdinck. They’re the cats”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 239.

139 “the only thing you couldn’t do was kill people. Everything else was acceptable”: Dave Swanson, “50 Years Ago: Jefferson Airplane Release Their Debut Album, ‘Takes Off,’” UltimateClassicRock.com, August 15, 2016.

139 “I was going through murder”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 665.

139 “an alter-ego band”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 241.

139 “you stick two bits of Pepper in it and it’s a concept”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 241.

139 “Let Sgt. Pepper do the touring”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 241.

139 “It was all there, the trampoline, the somersets, the hoops, the garters, the horse”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 317.

140 “I want to be in that circus atmosphere. I want to smell the sawdust”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 247.

140 “John would deal in moods, he would deal in colors”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 247.

140 “Cellophane flowers”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 242.

140 “You’re stuck out in suburbia, living a middle-class life”: Spitz, The Beatles, 666.

140 “it was becoming impossible to communicate”: Spitz, The Beatles, 666.

140 “I think the drugs destroyed a lot of his creativity”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 237.

140 “George, I’m not feeling too good”: Spitz, The Beatles, 671.

141 “They just look like stars to me”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 242.

141 “John always had a way of having an edge to his songs”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 242.

141 “It had to be just right”: “John Lennon Sgt. Pepper Album Cover Sketch,” Juliensive.com, May 20, 2017.

141 seven hundred hours of studio time to create this thirteenth LP: David Rybaczewski, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” BeatleseBooks.com.

141 a twenty-five-year-old American photographer, Linda Eastman: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 272–73.

141 the Animals, another leading British music export: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney, 266.

141 longtime girlfriend Jane Asher: “Paul McCartney and Jane Asher Announce Their Engagement,” BeatlesBible.com.

141 Brian’s recently purchased country home: “The Beatles Attend a Party at Brian Epstein’s Country House,” BeatlesBible.com.

142 1964 Rolls-Royce Phantom V: Jordan Runtagh, “John Lennon’s Phantom V: The Story of the Psychedelic Beatle-Mobile,” Rolling Stone, July 27, 2017.

142 “It was sprayed all yellow first”: John Lennon, The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies (New York: Little, Brown, 2012), 234.

142 ordinary latex house paint: Brett Berk, “John Lennon’s Psychedelic Rolls-Royce Returns to the U.K. to Celebrate Sgt. Pepper’s 50th Anniversary,” Billboard, July 12, 2017.

142 “The first time I drove it, I was followed by hordes of photographers”: Lennon, The John Lennon Letters, 234.

142 “John and friends floated in on his gaudy yellow Rolls”: Runtagh, “John Lennon’s Phantom V.”