188 “I never liked that sort of pop opera on the other side”: Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon, Part One—The Working Class Hero,” Rolling Stone, January 1971.

189 “You don’t seem to understand, do you?”: Norman, John Lennon, 624.

189 “I felt guilty at springing it on them at such short notice”: Norman, John Lennon, 624.

189 “‘It’s weird, this, telling you I’m leaving the group, but in a way it’s very exciting’”: Norman, John Lennon, 624.

189 Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voormann on bass, and Ringo on drums: Norman, Slowhand, 222.

189 Twenty-six takes: “Cold Turkey by John Lennon,” Songfacts.com.

189 “reached the point where nobody worries TOO much about what the Beatles are doing”: Chris Welch, “Natural Born Beatles,” Melody Maker, September 27, 1969.

189 “probably the nicest melody I’ve ever written”: Ritchie Yorke, “George Harrison Talks About the Beatles’ Album, Abbey Road,” Detroit Free Press, September 26, 1969.

189 “the greatest love song in the past fifty years”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 553.

189 “John, Paul, and George looked like they had gone back in time”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 295.

190 “‘Cold Turkey’ talks about thirty-six hours rolling in pain”: Mike Gormley, “Are We Burying McCartney Before He Is Dead?” Detroit Free Press, October 17, 1969.

190 “They thought it was a pro-drugs song”: “Cold Turkey by John Lennon,” Songfacts.com.

190 “One for both, both for each other”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 341.

190 a backing track of their heartbeats: Jason Farago, “Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again,” New York Times, June 25, 2015.

191 “We didn’t expect a hit record out of it”: “Wedding Album,” BeatlesBible.com.

191 “When people get married they usually make their own wedding albums”: Richard Williams, “John and Yoko (Part 2),” Melody Maker, December 13, 1969.

191 “I’d enjoy reading Jackie and Onassis’s album”: Williams, “John and Yoko.”

191 Pete Seeger leads 250,000 demonstrators through Lennon’s lyrics: Jon Wiener, “‘War Is Over! If You Want It’: John and Yoko, 40 Years Later,” The Nation, December 27, 2009.

191 “We’ll keep promoting peace in the way we do”: Williams, “John & Yoko.”

191 “Laurel and Hardy, that’s John and Yoko”: Norman, John Lennon, 627.

191 “all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi get shot”: Wiener, “‘War Is Over!’”

192 “Cold Turkey slipping down the charts”: John Lennon, The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies (New York: Little, Brown, 2012), 168.

192 “Really shouldn’t have taken it”: Gloria Emerson, “John Lennon Returns Award as a Protest,” New York Times, November 26, 1969.

192 “War is over! If you want it”: Wiener, “‘War Is Over!’”

192 “You’ve got to turn on and drop in. Or they’re going to drop all over you”: Wiener, “‘War Is Over!’”

192 Clown of the Year: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 318.

192 Man of the Decade: Norman, John Lennon, 630.

192 “Not many people are noticing all the good that came out of the last ten years”: John Lennon, interview with Desmond Morris, Man of the Decade, ATV, December 2, 1969, BeastlesInterviews.org.