105 “We were all major fans, so it was hero worship of a high degree”: Frank Mastropolo, “The Day the Beatles Met Elvis,” UltimateClassicRock.com, August 27, 2015.

105 “another dirty big publicity circus”: Ian Youngs, “When the Beatles Met Elvis Presley,” BBC News, October 5, 2011.

105 It’s Elvis! It’s Elvis!: Francis Schoenberger, “He Said, She Said: An Interview with John Lennon,” Spin, October 9, 2019 (reprint of 1975 interview).

105 “like subjects calling on the King”: Bohn, “50 Years Ago.”

106 “the backbeat with his fingers on the nearest bits of wooden furniture”: Youngs, “When the Beatles Met Elvis Presley.”

106 “trying to suss out from the gang if anybody had any reefers”: Mastropolo, “The Day the Beatles Met Elvis.”

106 “Elvis was stoned”: Youngs, “When the Beatles Met Elvis Presley.”

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107 “No wonder you can only rock”: Keith Richards, Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2010), 207.

107 the Stones’ first number-one hit in America: Rich Cohen, “How the Rolling Stones Found ‘Satisfaction,’” Slate, May 10, 2016.

107 “I wrote ‘Satisfaction’ in my sleep”: Cohen, “How the Rolling Stones Found ‘Satisfaction.’”

108 writes the song in minutes: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 417.

108 “It was a two-way thing”: Rob Sheffield, “50 Years of ‘Rubber Soul’: How the Beatles Invented the Future of Pop,” Rolling Stone, December 3, 2015.

108 In one week, the Beatles come up with seven songs: Sheffield, “50 Years of ‘Rubber Soul.’”

108 “a completely impractical man”: Norman, John Lennon, 410.

108 “Something doesn’t sound quite right”: Norman, John Lennon, 412.

108 “just take care of your percentage and leave us to worry about the music”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 155.

108 on November 12, the album is finished: Sheffield, “50 Years of ‘Rubber Soul.’”

108 “We should call it the Pot Album”: Norman, John Lennon, 415.

108 “Well, you know they’re good—but it’s plastic soul”: David Rybaczewski, “‘Rubber Soul’ History,” Beatlesebooks.com.

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110 told his life story to Tit-Bits: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 420.

110 “Rubber Soul broke everything open”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 595.

110 “the ignoble Alf”: Michael Braun, “Love Me Do!”: The Beatles’ Progress (Los Angeles and New York: Graymalkin Media, 2019), 43.

111 “I don’t feel as if I owe him anything”: Braun, “Love Me Do!,” 64.

111 “It wasn’t what you would call a happy reunion”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 179.

111 “What do you want, then?” Connolly, Being John Lennon, 179.

111 “made me get my teeth seen to”: Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 240.

111 “only the second time in my life I’d seen him”: Maureen Cleave, “How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This,” Evening Standard, March 4, 1966.

112 an accusation Alf’s manager later repeats: Tony Cartwright, “How Lennon Sabotaged His Dishwasher Dad’s Bid to Be a Pop Star: Close Friend Tells Story of the Beatle’s Hard-Drinking Father,” Daily Mail, July 30, 2012.

112 “I had too many father figures”: Jann S. Wenner, “Lennon Remembers: Part Two,” Rolling Stone, February 4, 1971.