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Chapters (91)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter 1
  6. Chapter 2
  7. Chapter 3
  8. Chapter 4
  9. Chapter 5
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  11. Chapter 6
  12. Chapter 7
  13. Chapter 8
  14. Chapter 9
  15. Chapter 10
  16. Chapter 11
  17. Chapter 12
  18. Chapter 13
  19. Chapter 14
  20. Chapter 15
  21. Chapter 16
  22. Chapter 17
  23. Chapter 18
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  25. Chapter 19
  26. Chapter 20
  27. Chapter 21
  28. Chapter 22
  29. Chapter 23
  30. Chapter 24
  31. Chapter 25
  32. Chapter 26
  33. Chapter 27
  34. Chapter 28
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  36. Chapter 29
  37. Chapter 30
  38. Chapter 31
  39. Chapter 32
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  41. Chapter 33
  42. Chapter 34
  43. Chapter 35
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  45. Chapter 36
  46. Chapter 37
  47. Chapter 38
  48. Chapter 39
  49. Chapter 40
  50. Chapter 41
  51. Chapter 42
  52. Chapter 43
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  54. Chapter 44
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  56. Chapter 45
  57. Chapter 46
  58. Chapter 47
  59. Chapter 48
  60. Chapter 49
  61. Chapter 50
  62. Chapter 51
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  64. Chapter 52
  65. Chapter 53
  66. Chapter 54
  67. Chapter 55
  68. Chapter 56
  69. Chapter 57
  70. Chapter 58
  71. Chapter 59
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  73. Chapter 60
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  75. Chapter 61
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  77. Chapter 62
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  79. Chapter 63
  80. Chapter 64
  81. Chapter 65
  82. Chapter 66
  83. Chapter 67
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  85. Chapter 68
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  87. Notes
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  89. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  90. Photos
  91. Coming Soon

88 “We could be heard in a place like the Hollywood Bowl”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 150.

88 “putting a microphone at the tail end of a 747 jet”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 150.

88 “I used to have to follow their three bums wiggling”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 150.

88 “I fell in love with Hollywood then”: Jordan Runtagh, “Eight Days a Week: The Beatles’ Touring History in 8 Concerts,” People, November 21, 2017.

88 “John grabbed Mansfield and they started making out like mad”: Spitz, The Beatles, 530.

89 “sitting on the plane, reading the paper and there was the photo of me”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 150.

89 “‘You guys never go out anywhere’”: Spitz, The Beatles, 530–31.

89 “that Bob Dylan wrote poetry added to his appeal”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 158.

89 on Freewheelin’, he wrote twelve of thirteen: Alan Light, “‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’: Inside His First Classic,” Rolling Stone, May 26, 2013.

90 “Congratulations from the Beatles (a group)”: Obituaries: “Mickie Most: Record Producer Who Scored Hit After Hit,” The Independent, June 2, 2003.

90 double entendre: Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon, Part One—The Working Class Hero,” Rolling Stone, January 1971.

90 “Zimmerman is his name. My name isn’t John Beatle”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

90 “the crowning achievement”: Valerie J. Nelson, “Al Aronowitz, 77; Rock Writer Introduced Dylan to Beatles,” Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2005.

90 “cheap wine”: Norman, John Lennon, 375.

90 “I get high, I get high”: Norman, John Lennon, 375.

91 “royal taster”: Norman, John Lennon, 376.

91 “This is Beatlemania here”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 158.

91 “That was a hell of a night”: Derek Taylor, Fifty Years Adrift, edited and annotated by George Harrison (London: Genesis Publications, 1984), quoted in “Bob Dylan turned the Beatles on to cannabis,” BeatlesBible.com.

91 “Paul came up to me and hugged me for ten minutes”: Andy Greene, “6 Things We Learned from the New Bob Dylan Tell-All,” Rolling Stone, September 9, 2014.

91 “smoking dope, drinking wine, and generally being rock ’n’ rollers”: Jeff Giles, “55 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Introduces the Beatles to Marijuana,” UltimateClassicRock.com, August 28, 2015.

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92 “John was basically a lazy bastard”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 224.

92 “I wanted to live in London”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 159.

93 number 1 in both America and Britain: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 294.

93 “We struggled to record it and struggled to make it into a song”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 160.

93 “looks, frankly, knackered”: “The Beatles: Beatles for Sale Review,” BBC.co.uk.

93 “I started thinking about my own emotions”: Jann S. Wenner, “Lennon Remembers, Part Two,” Rolling Stone, February 4, 1971.

94 “Prellies”: Dan McQuade, “The Drug That Helped Turn the Beatles into the World’s Greatest Band,” Village Voice, August 14, 2014.

94 “on pot”: Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon, Part One—The Working Class Hero,” Rolling Stone, January 1971.

94 “a happy high”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 219.

94 “smoking pot for breakfast”: Scott Beauchamp and Alex Shephard, “Bob Dylan and John Lennon’s Weird, One-Sided Relationship,” The Atlantic, September 24, 2012.

94 to avoid arousing suspicion: Norman, John Lennon, 396.