100 “they’ve got the cops moaning the blues”: Michael Perlman, “When the Beatles Landed at Forest Hills Stadium,” ForestHillsStadium.com, January 31, 2018.

100 PAUL, THROW US A KISS, RINGO, THROW US A RING: John McGee and Leeds Moberly, “The Beatles Play at Shea Stadium in 1965,” Daily News (New York), August 16, 1965, reprinted August 14, 2015.

101 “It’s the top of the mountain, Sid”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 403.

101 Olympic-size swimming pool: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 578.

101 “The only fun part was the hotels in the evening, smoking pot and that”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 206.

101 an overwhelming feeling of well-being: Mikal Gilmore, “Beatles’ Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to ‘Revolver,’” Rolling Stone, August 25, 2016.

101 “a kid who played guitar”: Carol Clerk, “George Harrison,” Uncut, February 2002.

101 “a very interesting relationship”: Norman, John Lennon, 426.

101 “We are probably the most cracked”: Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon, Part One—The Working Class Hero,” Rolling Stone, January 1971.

101 “we couldn’t relate”: Spitz, The Beatles, 580.

101 “felt very left out”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 223.

101 “‘Beware the demon drug’”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 223.

101 “We’re taking it and you’re not”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 223.

102 a helicopter flying far too close: Spitz, The Beatles, 580.

102 “Hello, fellas, you dirty bastards!”: Rex Reed, “‘Holden Caulfield at 27’: Esquire’s 1968 Profile of Peter Fonda,” Esquire.com, August 17, 2019.

102 “You have to be a bastard to make it”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

102 “I know what it’s like to be dead, man”: Spitz, The Beatles, 581.

102 “We gave the whole of our youth to the Beatles”: John Lennon, The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies (New York: Little, Brown, 2012), 89.

102 “touring was a relief, just to get out of Liverpool”: Davies, The Beatles, 171.

102 “I spend hours in dressing rooms and things thinking about the times I’ve wasted”: Lennon, The John Lennon Letters, 89.

Chapter 26

103 an MBE has never before been given to anyone under the age of twenty-five: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 400.

104 “a mockery of everything this country stands for”: Dave Lifton, “The Day the Beatles Received Their MBEs,” UltimateClassicRock.com, October 26, 2015.

104 “They’ve not been a bad example to anybody”: “Should the Beatles Have Been Awarded MBEs?,” BBC.co.uk, October 26, 2015.

104 “They should have got it and I think they’re great!” “Should the Beatles Have Been Awarded MBEs?”

104 “part of the game we’d agreed to play”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 207.

104 “when you are being decorated, you don’t laugh anymore”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 181.

104 “can’t help being impressed when you’re in the palace”: The Beatles, The Beatles, 181.

104 “You deserve this far more than I do”: Rupert Christiansen, The Complete Book of Aunts (New York: Twelve, 2007), 38.

105 “We just idolized the guy so much”: Michael K. Bohn, “50 Years Ago: When the Beatles Met Elvis,” Daily Gazette (Schenectady, New York), August 7, 2015.