149 “We’re not fucking here to do the next album, we’re here to meditate”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 414.

149 “The way George is going he’ll be flying on a magic carpet by the time he’s forty”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 261.

150 “the most miserable songs on earth”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 534.

150 “I’m a cloud”: Spitz, The Beatles, 755.

150 “keen to learn the finger-style guitar I played”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 421–22.

150 “slip me the real secret mantra which would give me happiness”: Sandip Roy, “Fifty Years on, India Is Celebrating the Beatles’ Infamous Trip to the Country,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 6, 2018.

150 “I thought he might slip me the answer!” Miles, Paul McCartney, 426.

150 “Something had gone very wrong between John and me”: Spitz, The Beatles, 755.

150 “always had some kind of affairs going”: David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000), 178.

151 “We had no problems at home”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 237.

151 “he would be lost in a daydream: present, but absent”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 237.

151 “We are going in with clear heads and hoping for the best”: Jordan Runtagh, “The Beatles’ Revelatory White Album Demos: A Complete Guide,” Rolling Stone, May 29, 2018.

151 “We hope to make a thing that’s free”: Joel Rose, “The Beatles’ Apple Records: Forty Years Later,” NPR.org, May 14, 2008.

151 “Take a taxi”: Carol Clerk, “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” Uncut, September 2003.

151 “We can do two things”: Clerk, “The Ballad of John and Yoko.”

152 “I want to go and live with Yoko”: Spitz, The Beatles, 765.

152 met once before at a meditation meeting: “In Her Life After John, Cynthia Lennon Didn’t Stop Loving Him,” Fresh Air, NPR.org, April 2, 2015.

152 “Oh, hi”: Spitz, The Beatles, 772.

152 Yoko moves into John’s house: Norman, John Lennon, 541.

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153 “I want to put out what I feel about revolution”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 298.

153 “I demand equal time, equal space, equal rights”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 548.

154 “She just moved in”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 777.

154 “It’s not that bad”: Rob Sheffield, “And in the End,” Rolling Stone, August 17, 2020.

154 “because Yoko sat on an amp”: Sheffield, “And in the End.”

154 “No, no, I want that guitar to sound dirtier!”: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 252.

154 “It was as much Yoko’s as it was John’s”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 240.

154 “a pimple on the face of the [White] album”: Alan Smith, “The Beatles: The Beatles,” New Musical Express, November 9, 1968.

154 “It wasn’t that she inspired the songs. She inspired me”: David Sheff, “Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Playboy, January 1981.

155 “I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, you know”: John Lennon, interview with Peter Lewis, Release, BBC-2, June 6, 1968.