155 “It’s an overtly political song about revolution and a great one”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 466.

155 “Where’s your wife?” Spitz, The Beatles, 774.

155 a waterfront bungalow: Beckie Strum, “Waterfront Property John Lennon Bought His Aunt Selling for £7.25 Million,” Mansion Global, October 4, 2018.

155 “Who’s the poisoned dwarf, John?” “John’s Aunt Met Yoko and Thought ‘God, What Is That?’” Irish Daily Mail, March 21, 2020.

156 “He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian”: David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000), 189.

156 “subconsciously he was saying, Go ahead, leave me”: Sheff, All We Are Saying, 189.

156 “That’s something else, innit?”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 466.

156 “Cary Grant on heat!” Miles, Paul McCartney, 466.

157 “The whole world is watching”: Maggie Astor, “‘The Whole World Is Watching’: The 1968 Democratic Convention, 50 Years Later,” New York Times, August 28, 2018.

157 Ringo evicted Hendrix: Amanda Uren, “1967: Hanging Out with Hendrix,” Mashable, April 16, 2015.

157 a figure standing by their bedroom window: “John Lennon and Yoko Ono Are Arrested for Drugs Possession,” BeatlesBible.com.

157 forewarned by a reporter: Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 312.

158 “Ring the lawyer, quick!”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 312.

158 “a strange cocktail of love, sex, and forgetfulness”: “John Lennon: In a Hard Day’s Light Part I,” People, April 1, 2008.

158 Yogi and Boo-Boo, the drug-sniffing dogs: Ed Tracey, “Top Comments: The Norman Pilcher Edition,” Daily Kos, February 8, 2018.

158 LENNON AND FRIEND CHARGED IN POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA: Associated Press, “Lennon and Friend Charged in Possession of Marijuana,” New York Times, October 19, 1968.

158 “It was the most terrifying experience I have ever had”: Anthony Fawcett, John Lennon: One Day at a Time (New York: Grove Press, 1976), 39.

158 “a reminder that a cop was lying in wait if anyone had a party”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 303.

159 suffers a miscarriage: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 314.

159 “poisoned the wells of criminal justice”: Tracey, “Top Comments.”

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160 Sheraton Centre: Pete Hamill, “The Death and Life of John Lennon,” New York, March 18, 2008.

160 $82 per night: Hamill, “The Death and Life of John Lennon.”

160 room 2730: Hamill, “The Death and Life of John Lennon.”

160 reaches for his Walkman: James R. Gaines, “In the Shadows a Killer Waited,” People, March 2, 1987.

161 “A creepy, sweaty guy recognized me”: Angie Martoccio, “5 Highlights from James Taylor’s New Audio Memoir,” Rolling Stone, February 7, 2020.

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162 “nothing has been more romanticized than guns”: Olivia B. Waxman, “How the Gun Control Act of 1968 Changed America’s Approach to Firearms—and What People Get Wrong About That History,” Time, October 25, 2018.

162 “sort of a history of rock and roll”: John Lennon, “Lennon-McCartney Songalog: Who Wrote What,” Hit Parader, April, 1972.

162 “The title of the article, which I never read, was ‘Happiness Is a Warm Gun’”: David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000), 188–89.

162 “I thought, what a fantastic, insane thing to say”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 496.