142 “Crowds of jeering, waving people pressed up against the tinted windows”: “The Beatles Attend a Party at Brian Epstein’s Country House.”

142 “How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!”: Tom Hawthorn, “The Magical History Tour of Lennon’s Rolls-Royce,” Globe and Mail (Canada), January 18, 2011.

143 “not a teen-age album, but a terribly intellectual one.” Lillian Ross, “Sgt. Pepper,” The New Yorker, June 24, 1967.

143 legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein: Olivia B. Waxman, “How the Beatles Made Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Work,” Time, June 1, 2017.

143 “There is no longer any need, thank goodness, to apologize”: Richard Nelsson, “The New Beatles’ Dazzler: Sgt. Pepper Reviewed—Archive 1967,” The Guardian, June 1, 2017.

143 “tendency to overdo the curry power”: Nelsson, “The New Beatles’ Dazzler.”

143 “a touch of the Jefferson Airplane, a dab of Beach Boys vibrations”: Richard Goldstein, “We Still Need the Beatles, but…” New York Times, June 1, 1967.

143 “The music critic of the New York Times hated Sgt. Pepper”: Geoff Edgers, “Meet the Critic Who Panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Then Discovered His Speaker Was Busted. He’s Still Not Sorry,” Washington Post, May 11, 2017.

143 “The Lennon raunchiness has become mere caprice”: Goldstein, “We Still Need the Beatles, but…”

144 “If they want to read drugs into our stuff, they will”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 247.

144 “It will be the first worldwide satellite broadcast ever”: Gavin Edwards, “The Beatles Make History with ‘All You Need Is Love’: A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown,” Rolling Stone, August 28, 2014.

144 “I suppose we’d better write something”: Edwards, “The Beatles Make History with ‘All You Need Is Love.’”

144 “In contrast, John seemed to live in chaos”: Shenk, “The Power of Two.”

144 “Keep it simple so viewers across the globe will understand”: Spitz, The Beatles, 700.

145 “Well, it’s certainly repetitive”: Spitz, The Beatles, 702.

145 You know I love you…I really mean that: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 504.

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146 “What one of us wants, the others go along with”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Henry Holt, 1997), 403.

146 “It’s fantastic stuff, Cyn”: Cynthia Lennon, “The Beatles, the Maharishi, and me,” The Sunday Times (UK, February 10, 2008).

147 “Tell him you’re with us”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 711.

147 “Why are you always last, Cyn?”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 246.

147 “Now we’re our own managers; now we have to make all the decisions”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 406.

147 “I introduced Brian to pills—which gives me a guilt association with his death”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 248.

147 “cooled us out a bit”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 406.

147 “He just told us not to be overwhelmed with grief”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 247.

148 “If we goofed, then we goofed”: Adam Behr, “Magical Mystery Tour: A Rare Beatles Flop—but It Paved the Way for Monty Python,” The Conversation, December 22, 2017.