173 “Rock ’n’ roll specializes in that kind of, ‘This guy’s a twerp. We’ve got to have him on our team!’”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 545.

173 “Don’t go near him, he’s a dog. He’s a crook”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 545.

174 “making the biggest mistake of your life”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 373.

174 “We were all pissed off with each other. We certainly weren’t a gang anymore”: Frank Mastropolo, “The Day Paul McCartney Married Linda Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 337.Eastman,” UltimateClassicRock.com, March 12, 2019.

174 “the sudden reality of having failed to become Mrs. McCartney”: Mastropolo, “The Day Paul McCartney Married Linda Eastman.”

174 “get married on a cross-channel ferry. That was the romantic part”: The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), 332.

175 Yogi the police dog: Norman, Paul McCartney, 380.

175 “Intellectually, we didn’t believe in getting married”: Spitz, The Beatles, 829.

176 “John Lennon’s holding court about something or other”: Rick Wilson, “The Day I Saw John and Yoko’s ‘Bed-In’ Peace Demonstration,” The Guardian, February 26, 2017.

176 “We knew whatever we did was going to be in the papers”: Olivia B. Waxman, “Behind the Photo: How John Lennon and Yoko Ono Came Up with Their Idea for a Bed-In for Peace,” Time, March 25, 2019.

176 “the space we would occupy anyway, by getting married, with a commercial for peace”: Waxman, “Behind the Photo.”

176 “Why not Saigon or Dallas if peace is the cause?”: Wilson, “The Day I Saw John and Yoko’s ‘Bed-In’ Peace Demonstration.”

176 Allen Klein is appointed Apple’s business manager: Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 337.

176 “I’m a tidy sort of bloke”: Rob Sheffield, “And in the End,” Rolling Stone, August 17, 2020.

177 “Go a bit slower, Ringo”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 386.

177 “one of those magic times when everything went right and nothing went wrong”: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 270.

177 the Beatles’ seventeenth number-one UK hit: “The Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles,” Songfacts.com.

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178 “This is my story both humble and true”: “John Lennon—Signed, Numbered Poets Lithograph, 1969,” RecordMecca.com.

178 “T is for Tommy who won the war”: Anthony Fawcett, John Lennon: One Day at a Time (New York: Grove Press, 1976), 163.

178 a poetry stand in People’s Park: Clara Bingham, “The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley,” The Guardian, July 6, 2019.

178 “When I first got the news it stooned me, absolutely stooned me”: Ritchie Yorke, “Bedding In for Peace: John and Yoko in Canada,” Rolling Stone, June 28, 1969.

179 suite 1742 of Montreal’s stately Queen Elizabeth Hotel: Fiona Tapp, “What It’s Like to Stay in the Montreal Hotel Suite Where John Lennon and Yoko Ono Held Their Bed-In,” The Independent, May 9, 2019.

179 “If I’m a joke, as they say, and not important, why don’t they just let me in?”: Yorke, “Bedding In for Peace.”

179 “Violence really does beget violence”: Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 345.