183 “wasn’t impressed enough to want to make a record”: Earl Caldwell, “Record Producer Rejected Manson,” New York Times, October 24, 1970.

184 “raunchiest, loudest, most ridiculous rock ’n’ roll record you’ve ever heard”: “Helter Skelter,” BeatlesBible.com.

184 “‘I think we should do a song like that; something really wild’”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 319.

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185 “Leave John alone!”: Thomas Hobbs, “I Took the Last Ever Shot of the Beatles—and They Were Miserable,” The Guardian, February 10, 2019.

185 Tittenhurst Park: Linda Serck, “Beatle John Lennon’s Time at Tittenhurst Park in Ascot,” BBC News, May 11, 2011.

185 a disturbing package: Hobbs, “I Took the Last Ever Shot of the Beatles.”

185 “I want the white noise to take over and blot out the music altogether”: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 300.

186 “this marriage had come to an end—and boy does it show”: Hobbs, “I Took the Last Ever Shot of the Beatles.”

186 “We were very square people in a way”: Kenneth Womack, “In 1969 the Fifth Beatle Was Heroin: John Lennon’s Addiction Took Its Toll on the Band,” Salon, February 15, 2019.

186 “John’s gone away for two weeks, just to get away from it all”: Jerry Hopkins, “James Taylor on Apple: The Same Old Craperoo,” Rolling Stone, August 23, 1969.

186 “It took courage enough for John to go cold turkey on his own”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 619.

187 leave the band: David L. Ulin, “All You Need Is Love, and a Good Lawyer,” Tampa Bay Times, July 16, 2010.

187 “How would you fancy playing at a rock ’n’ roll festival with the Plastic Ono Band in Toronto?”: Philip Norman, Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton (New York: Back Bay, 2019), 220.

187 “Nothing’s expected of John and Yoko or the Plastic Ono”: Barry Miles, “My Blue Period: John Lennon,” MOJO, 1995, from original interviews on September 23 and 24, 1969, at Apple.

187 “We tried to rehearse on the plane”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 845.

187 Varsity Stadium at the University of Toronto: Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 352.

187 hasn’t played to a crowd this size since the Beatles’ 1966 American tour: Norman, Slowhand, 221.

187 “I am the King and I should close the show”: Juliette Jagger, “The Domino Effect: How One of Toronto’s Most Iconic Rock Concerts Almost Never Happened,” Noisey, April 13, 2015.

187 “Everyone get out your matches and lighters, please”: Jagger, “The Domino Effect.”

188 “only with all of us blasting it. Fantastic. It’s just pure sound”: Miles, “My Blue Period.”

188 “What’s next?” Miles, The Beatles Diary, 352.

188 “Then we went into ‘Give Peace a Chance,’ which was just unbelievable”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 352.

188 “The buzz was incredible”: Norman, John Lennon, 622.

188 “I don’t care who I have to play with, I’m going back to playing rock onstage!”: Spitz, The Beatles, 846.

188 a new deal with EMI’s Capitol Records: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 353.