129 “The only gig we ever missed!”: Jordan Runtagh, “Remembering Beatles’ Final Concert,” Rolling Stone, August 29, 2016.

129 “I remember us getting in a big, empty steel-lined wagon”: Jeff Giles, “The Day the Beatles Decided to Stop Touring,” UltimateClassicRock.com, August 21, 2017.

129 “He was struggling mightily to get out from the comments he made”: Ken Mansfield, interview with authors, 2019.

129 “all in a big movie and we were the ones trapped”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology.

129 conflicting signage: Doyle, “Burn the Beatles, 1966.”

129 LENNON SAVES: Runtagh, “Remembering Beatles’ Final Concert.”

129 “Tape it, will you? Tape the show”: Runtagh, “Remembering Beatles’ Final Concert.”

129 “We’d like to ask you to join in and, er, clap, sing, talk, do anything”: Runtagh, “Remembering Beatles’ Final Concert.”

130 “Right—that’s it, I’m not a Beatle anymore!”: Runtagh, “Remembering Beatles’ Final Concert.”

130 “This isn’t show business. It’s something else”: Michael Braun, “Love Me Do!”: The Beatles’ Progress (Los Angeles and New York: Graymalkin Media, 2019), 64.

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131 “If you wanted to, John, you could be a very interesting actor”: Sam Kashner, “Making Beatlemania: A Hard Day’s Night at 50,” Vanity Fair, July 2, 2014.

131 an opportunistic ex of Brian’s: Jordan Runtagh, “Remembering Beatles’ Final Concert,” Rolling Stone, August 29, 2016.

132 “I have visions of Strawberry Fields”: David Rybaczewski, “Strawberry Fields Forever,” BeatleseBooks.com.

132 “John was still searching”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 462.

132 “I knew it would end this way”: Roger Ebert, “How I Won the War,” RogerEbert.com, January 7, 1968.

132 “granny glasses”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 228.

133 “sequences of buttock moment”: “Fluxfilm No. 16: Four (1966/1967),” FluxusFoundation.com.

133 “Never bring anybody until it’s all ready”: Museum of Modern Art, “Yoko Ono. London. 1966–69,” audio transcript from “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971,” MoMa.org.

133 “This was the first sexy one I met”: Philip Norman, “Emotionally Tormented and Painfully Insecure—the Unknown Lennon,” Daily Mail, October 7, 2008.

134 a very small YES: Museum of Modern Art, “Yoko Ono. London. 1966–69.”

134 “I thought it was fantastic”: Jann S. Wenner, “Lennon Remembers, Part Two,” Rolling Stone, February 4, 1971.

134 “When I first heard ‘Strawberry Fields Forever,’ I was sidesmacked”: Norman, John Lennon, 481.

134 “Well, there are two things against it”: Colin Fleming, “Revisiting Beatles’ Rare, Revelatory ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ Early Take,” Rolling Stone, November 22, 2016.

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135 dinner at a Japanese restaurant: 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), 11.

135 Record levels for murder: Leonard Buder, “1980 Called Worst Year of Crime in City History,” New York Times, February 25, 1981.

135 I would have definitely gone out with him: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 11.

135 “poor man’s cocaine”: “Crack Cocaine: A Short History,” DrugFreeWorld.org.

136 a Gitane for sure: Harry Cockburn, “France Considers Banning Gitanes and Gauloises Cigarettes for Being ‘Too Cool,’” The Independent, July 21, 2016.

136 “truly alive for the first time in twenty years”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 11.

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137 annual flexi disc from the band featuring a Christmas message: Jordan Runtagh, “Beatles’ Rare Fan-Club Christmas Records: A Complete Guide,” Rolling Stone, December 15, 2017.