179 “Yes, we’re really scared to go to the US because people have become so violent”: Yorke, “Bedding In for Peace.”

179 “Our job is to write for the people now”: Frank Mastropolo, “When John and Yoko’s Bed-In Led to ‘Give Peace a Chance,” UltimateClassicRock.com, May 26, 2019.

179 scatters flower petals daily: Tapp, “What It’s Like to Stay in the Montreal Hotel Suite.”

179 four microphones and a four-track Ampex recorder: Bob Boilen, “Old Music Tuesday: 40 Years of Giving Peace a Chance,” All Songs Considered, NPR.org, June 30, 2009.

180 “Sing along”: Paul Williams, “Eyewitness: John and Yoko Record ‘Give Peace a Chance,’” Q, November 1995.

180 namechecked in the lyrics of John’s first solo single: Bob Boilen, “Old Music Tuesday.”

180 “we don’t have a leader but we have a song—‘Give Peace a Chance’”: Richard Williams, “John & Yoko (Part 2),” Melody Maker, December 13, 1969.

180 “If you’re going to have a car crash, try to arrange for it to happen in the Highlands”: “The Day John Lennon Crashed His Car in the Highlands,” Press and Journal (Aberdeen), December 8, 2015.

180 “like two apparitions dressed in black”: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 279.

180 “Yes, I’m okay”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 270.

181 “put a microphone up over here so we can hear her on the headphones”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 347.

181 “It’s your job to keep people out of here”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 291.

181 “in the middle of the Abbey Road studio, handing Yoko a small white packet”: Kenneth Womack, “In 1969 the Fifth Beatle Was Heroin: John Lennon’s Addiction Took Its Toll on the Band,” Salon, February 15, 2019.

181 “Give me something funky”: Barry Miles, “My Blue Period: John Lennon,” MOJO, 1995, from original interviews on September 23 and 24, 1969, at Apple.

181 “Don’t worry; I’ll do the overdubs on this”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 285.

181 “It’s an upbeat, rock-a-beat-a-boogie, with very Lennon lyrics”: Ritchie Yorke, “George Harrison Talks About the Beatles’ Album, Abbey Road,” Detroit Free Press, September 26, 1969.

181 “he was a tailor and I was a customer who had ordered a suit and never returned”: Adam Clark Estes, “John Lennon Wrote ‘Come Together’ for Timothy Leary but Pot Ruined It,” Gizmodo, August 8, 2014.

182 “Can you play those chords backward?”: David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000), 191.

182 “one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever done”: Yorke, “George Harrison Talks About the Beatles’ Album, Abbey Road.”

182 “name it Everest and pose for the cover in Tibet”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 297.

182 “Let’s just step outside and name it Abbey Road”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 297.

182 the photographer, Iain MacMillan: June Scott, “Iain MacMillan,” The Guardian, June 20, 2006.

183 Only one photograph shows them stepping perfectly in time: “The Scot Who Took the Beatles’ Abbey Road Photo,” BBC News, August 8, 2019.