112 “I’m not the greatest dad on earth; I’m doing me best”: Jonathan Cott, “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” Rolling Stone, December 23, 2010.

112 “a lot of early childhood was coming out”: Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon, Part One—The Working Class Hero,” Rolling Stone, January 1971.

112 relax, float downstream: Norman, John Lennon, 421.

112 “I should destroy my ego and I did”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

112 “the acid album”: Norman, John Lennon, 432.

113 covers for four British Beatles albums: Matt Schudel, “Robert Freeman, Photographer Who Helped Define the Image of the Beatles, Dies at 82,” Washington Post, November 9, 2019.

113 “eating acid all the time”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”

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114 “You gals are waiting for someone, I bet”: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon (New York: Villard Books, 1992), 8.

114 When he met Gloria: CNN Special Report: Killing John Lennon, CNN.com, December 8, 2015.

114 “As a matter of fact”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 8.

115 “I bet nobody ever said that to you before”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 8.

115 “I heard John Lennon lives here”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 8.

116 the presents: Vicki Sheff, “The Betrayal of John Lennon,” Playboy, March 1984.

117 Imagines himself leaning forward to kiss Yoko: Clyde Haberman, “Of Lennon, Time, Loss and Parole,” New York Times, September 30, 2000.

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118 “How Does a Beatle Live?”: Maureen Cleave, “How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This,” Evening Standard, March 4, 1966.

119 “Christianity will go”: Cleave, “How Does a Beatle Live?”

119 “We’re more popular than Jesus now”: Cleave, “How Does a Beatle Live?”

119 “And then it just vanished”: “The Beatles—A Day in the Life: March 4, 1966,” BeatlesRadio.com.

119 “I’d watched people worshipping like gods, four Beatles”: Jordan Runtagh, “Inside Beatles’ Bloody, Banned ‘Butcher’ Cover,” Rolling Stone, June 20, 2016.

119 “There we were, supposed to be sort of angels”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 444.

119 “fed up with taking squeaky-clean pictures”: Runtagh, “Inside Beatles’ Bloody, Banned ‘Butcher’ Cover.”

119 “It was just dolls and a lot of meat”: Runtagh, “Inside Beatles’ Bloody, Banned ‘Butcher’ Cover.”

120 750,000 albums: Norman, John Lennon, 445.

120 “It’s as relevant as Vietnam”: Runtagh, “Inside Beatles’ Bloody, Banned ‘Butcher’ Cover.”

120 a money loser for Capitol: Douglas Martin, “Robert Whitaker, the Beatles’ Photographer, Dies at 71,” New York Times, October 1, 2011.

120 the band’s nickname, the Fab Four: Allan Kozinn, “Tony Barrow, Beatles Publicist Who Coined the Term ‘Fab Four,’ Dies at 80,” New York Times, May 16, 2016.

121 “the sort of thing DATEbook likes to use”: Jordan Runtagh, “When John Lennon’s ‘More Popular Than Jesus’ Controversy Turned Ugly,” Rolling Stone, July 29, 2016.

121 “our fantastic Beatles boycott is still in effect”: “John Lennon Sparks His First Major Controversy,” History.com, November 16, 2009.

121 “your Beatles records and Beatles paraphernalia”: “John Lennon Sparks His First Major Controversy.”

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122 “the Beatle grinder”: Jack Doyle, “Burn the Beatles, 1966: Bigger Than Jesus?,” PopHistoryDig.com, October 11, 2017.

122 “We can get along very well without the Beatles”: Doyle, “Burn the Beatles, 1966.”