94 “I’ve always needed a drug to survive”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

94 “Let’s go”: Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me (New York: Crown Archetype, 2007), 101.

94 London dentist John Riley: Mikal Gilmore, “Beatles’ Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to ‘Revolver,’” Rolling Stone, August 25, 2016.

94 Klaus Voormann’s new band: Norman, John Lennon, 422.

94 “You haven’t had any coffee yet”: Boyd, Wonderful Tonight, 101.

94 “These friends of ours are going to be on soon”: Boyd, Wonderful Tonight, 101.

95 “I advise you not to leave”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

95 “It was in the coffee”: Boyd, Wonderful Tonight, 101.

95 “How dare you fucking do this to us!”: Gilmore, “Beatles’ Acid Test.”

95 “I think he thought that there was going to be a big gang bang”: Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, “The Oral History of the First Two Times the Beatles Took Acid,” Vice.com, December 4, 2016.

95 Pattie’s orange Mini Cooper: Boyd, Wonderful Tonight, 101.

95 “All the way the car felt smaller and smaller”: Boyd, Wonderful Tonight, 101.

95 “suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a horror film”: McNeil and McCain, “The Oral History.”

95 “We were cackling in the streets”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

95 “as if I had never tasted, talked, seen, thought or heard properly before”: Boyd, Wonderful Tonight, 102.

95 “just a little red light”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

95 John’s favorite book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Norman, John Lennon, 423.

95 “ten miles an hour, but it seemed like a thousand”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

96 “a big submarine”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

96 “God, it was just terrifying, but it was fantastic”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

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97 “my fat Elvis period”: David Sheff, “Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Playboy, January 1981.

97 “get together and knock off a few songs, just like a job”: Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon, Part One—The Working Class Hero,” Rolling Stone, January 1971.

98 “Because John sang it, you might have to give him 60 percent of it”: David Rybaczewski, “Ticket to Ride,” Beatlesebooks.com.

98 “That’s me, one of the earliest heavy-metal records”: Sheff, “Playboy Interview.”

98 “lowered his glasses”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 221.

98 “the John Lennon he was frightened to reveal to the world”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 221.

98 “why we never improved as musicians”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

98 “I got out of bed, sat at the piano”: Alice Vincent, “Yesterday: The Song That Started as Scrambled Eggs,” The Telegraph, June 18, 2015.

99 “You’d think he was Beethoven or somebody!”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 175.

99 “The song was around for months and months”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 175.

99 “I was sorry, in a way, because we had so many laughs about it”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 175.

99 “We have a winner with that ‘Yesterday’”: Vincent, “Yesterday.”

99 “I had nothing to do with”: Jann S. Wenner, “Lennon Remembers, Part Two,” Rolling Stone, February 4, 1971.

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