167 “John had a tremendous weight on his shoulders”: Ken Mansfield, interview by the authors, 2019.

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168 “It’s another of Paul’s projects”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 21.

168 “I think we should go back on the road”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 804.

168 The costs of running the sprawling Apple Corps: Miles, Paul McCartney, 528.

168 Director Lindsay-Hogg has grand ideas: Miles, Paul McCartney, 529.

169 “The Beatles were to start playing as the sun came up”: Jordan Runtagh, “Beatles’ Famous Rooftop Concert: 15 Things You Didn’t Know,” Rolling Stone, January 29, 2016.

169 “a replica of the Roman Colosseum”: Runtagh, “Beatles’ Famous Rooftop Concert.”

169 “go back to Liverpool”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 578.

169 “I’m warming to the idea of doing it in an asylum”: Norman, John Lennon, 578.

169 “See you ’round the clubs”: Spitz, The Beatles, 806.

169 “I think if George doesn’t come back”: Rob Sheffield, “And in the End,” Rolling Stone, August 17, 2020.

169 “The point is, if George leaves”: Sheffield, “And in the End.”

169 “What a great idea it would be to play on the roof”: Spitz, The Beatles, 815.

170 “What’s the point?”: Runtagh, “Beatles’ Famous Rooftop Concert.”

170 “too cold to play the chords”: Runtagh, “Beatles’ Famous Rooftop Concert.”

170 “mere mortals after all”: Thomas Hobbs, “I Took the Last Ever Shot of the Beatles—and They Were Miserable,” The Guardian, February 10, 2019.

171 “You’ve got ten minutes”: Runtagh, “Beatles’ Famous Rooftop Concert.”

171 flush drug stashes down the toilets: Runtagh, “Beatles’ Famous Rooftop Concert.”

171 “I hope we’ve passed the audition”: Marisa Iati, “The Beatles Played on a London Rooftop in 1969. It Wound Up Being Their Last Show,” Washington Post, January 30, 2019.

171 “It was really just the culmination of a lot of writing and rehearsing”: Paul McCartney, interview by the authors, 2019.

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172 “If it carries on like this, all of us will be broke within the next six months”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 299.

172 “That was my opening”: John McMillian, “You Never Give Me Your Money: How Allen Klein Played the Beatles and the Stones,” Newsweek, December 17, 2013.

172 “the Robin Hood of pop”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 371.

172 “just a piece of paper”: McMillian, “You Never Give Me Your Money.”

172 THE BIGGEST MOTHERFUCKER IN THE VALLEY: McMillian, “You Never Give Me Your Money.”

173 “He was very nervous, you could see it in his face”: Jann S. Wenner, “Lennon Remembers: Part Two,” Rolling Stone, February 4, 1971.

173 “knew my work, and the lyrics that I had written”: Wenner, “Lennon Remembers.”

173 “anyone who knew me that well, without having met me before”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 300.

173 “I’ve asked Allen Klein to look after my things”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 544.

173 “we favored people who were street people”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 820.

173 “FYM—Fuck You, Money”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 373.