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Chapters (91)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter 1
  6. Chapter 2
  7. Chapter 3
  8. Chapter 4
  9. Chapter 5
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  11. Chapter 6
  12. Chapter 7
  13. Chapter 8
  14. Chapter 9
  15. Chapter 10
  16. Chapter 11
  17. Chapter 12
  18. Chapter 13
  19. Chapter 14
  20. Chapter 15
  21. Chapter 16
  22. Chapter 17
  23. Chapter 18
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  25. Chapter 19
  26. Chapter 20
  27. Chapter 21
  28. Chapter 22
  29. Chapter 23
  30. Chapter 24
  31. Chapter 25
  32. Chapter 26
  33. Chapter 27
  34. Chapter 28
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  36. Chapter 29
  37. Chapter 30
  38. Chapter 31
  39. Chapter 32
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  41. Chapter 33
  42. Chapter 34
  43. Chapter 35
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  45. Chapter 36
  46. Chapter 37
  47. Chapter 38
  48. Chapter 39
  49. Chapter 40
  50. Chapter 41
  51. Chapter 42
  52. Chapter 43
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  54. Chapter 44
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  56. Chapter 45
  57. Chapter 46
  58. Chapter 47
  59. Chapter 48
  60. Chapter 49
  61. Chapter 50
  62. Chapter 51
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  64. Chapter 52
  65. Chapter 53
  66. Chapter 54
  67. Chapter 55
  68. Chapter 56
  69. Chapter 57
  70. Chapter 58
  71. Chapter 59
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  73. Chapter 60
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  75. Chapter 61
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  77. Chapter 62
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  79. Chapter 63
  80. Chapter 64
  81. Chapter 65
  82. Chapter 66
  83. Chapter 67
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  85. Chapter 68
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  87. Notes
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  89. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  90. Photos
  91. Coming Soon

142 “Crowds of jeering, waving people pressed up against the tinted windows”: “The Beatles Attend a Party at Brian Epstein’s Country House.”

142 “How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!”: Tom Hawthorn, “The Magical History Tour of Lennon’s Rolls-Royce,” Globe and Mail (Canada), January 18, 2011.

143 “not a teen-age album, but a terribly intellectual one.” Lillian Ross, “Sgt. Pepper,” The New Yorker, June 24, 1967.

143 legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein: Olivia B. Waxman, “How the Beatles Made Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Work,” Time, June 1, 2017.

143 “There is no longer any need, thank goodness, to apologize”: Richard Nelsson, “The New Beatles’ Dazzler: Sgt. Pepper Reviewed—Archive 1967,” The Guardian, June 1, 2017.

143 “tendency to overdo the curry power”: Nelsson, “The New Beatles’ Dazzler.”

143 “a touch of the Jefferson Airplane, a dab of Beach Boys vibrations”: Richard Goldstein, “We Still Need the Beatles, but…” New York Times, June 1, 1967.

143 “The music critic of the New York Times hated Sgt. Pepper”: Geoff Edgers, “Meet the Critic Who Panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Then Discovered His Speaker Was Busted. He’s Still Not Sorry,” Washington Post, May 11, 2017.

143 “The Lennon raunchiness has become mere caprice”: Goldstein, “We Still Need the Beatles, but…”

144 “If they want to read drugs into our stuff, they will”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 247.

144 “It will be the first worldwide satellite broadcast ever”: Gavin Edwards, “The Beatles Make History with ‘All You Need Is Love’: A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown,” Rolling Stone, August 28, 2014.

144 “I suppose we’d better write something”: Edwards, “The Beatles Make History with ‘All You Need Is Love.’”

144 “In contrast, John seemed to live in chaos”: Shenk, “The Power of Two.”

144 “Keep it simple so viewers across the globe will understand”: Spitz, The Beatles, 700.

145 “Well, it’s certainly repetitive”: Spitz, The Beatles, 702.

145 You know I love you…I really mean that: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 504.

Chapter 34

146 “What one of us wants, the others go along with”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Henry Holt, 1997), 403.

146 “It’s fantastic stuff, Cyn”: Cynthia Lennon, “The Beatles, the Maharishi, and me,” The Sunday Times (UK, February 10, 2008).

147 “Tell him you’re with us”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 711.

147 “Why are you always last, Cyn?”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 246.

147 “Now we’re our own managers; now we have to make all the decisions”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 406.

147 “I introduced Brian to pills—which gives me a guilt association with his death”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 248.

147 “cooled us out a bit”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 406.

147 “He just told us not to be overwhelmed with grief”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 247.

148 “If we goofed, then we goofed”: Adam Behr, “Magical Mystery Tour: A Rare Beatles Flop—but It Paved the Way for Monty Python,” The Conversation, December 22, 2017.

149 “I get higher than I ever did with drugs”: David Chiu, “The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn’t Know,” Rolling Stone, February 12, 2018.

149 “The minute you clear it”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 414.