193 “The sixties was just waking up in the morning, and we haven’t even got to dinnertime yet”: Lennon, interview with Desmond Morris, Man of the Decade.

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194 “John just wrote a great song and he wants to cut it as a single”: David Browne, “Flashback: John Lennon Writes and Records ‘Instant Karma!’ in One Day,” Rolling Stone, January 27, 2019.

194 “I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed up and out tomorrow”: Nick DeRiso, “Why John Lennon Recorded ‘Instant Karma’ So Quickly,” UltimateClassicRock.com, February 6, 2016.

194 “there really is a reaction to what you do now”: DeRiso, “Why John Lennon Recorded ‘Instant Karma’ So Quickly.”

194 “Alan, whatever you’re doing, keep doing it”: DeRiso, “Why John Lennon Recorded ‘Instant Karma’ So Quickly.”

195 “Uh, could you put the cymbals down?”: Browne, “Flashback.”

195 wants no input from Apple engineers: Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), 316–17.

195 “You’re making Phil a bit uncomfortable”: Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere, 317.

195 “How do you want it?”: Browne, “Flashback.”

195 “It sounded like there was fifty people playing”: DeRiso, “Why John Lennon Recorded ‘Instant Karma’ So Quickly.”

195 “I wrote it for breakfast”: Rob Sheffield, “And in the End,” Rolling Stone, August 17, 2020.

195 ten days after John first conceived of the song: Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 368.

195 “That Would Be Something”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 369.

195 the solo work lifts his spirits: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 571.

196 Top of the Pops: Sheffield, “And in the End.”

196 thirteen songs to fill a homemade eponymous album: Miles, Paul McCartney, 572.

196 All four Beatles have approval over who will polish the songs: Jim Irvin, “Get It Better: The Story of Let It Be…Naked,” MOJO, 2003.

196 “harps, horns, an orchestra, and women’s choir”: Miles, Paul McCartney, 575.

196 “I would never have female voices on a Beatles record”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 323.

196 “We’re sorry it turned out like this—it’s nothing personal”: Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), 413.

197 “The Beatles are alive and well and the Beat goes on”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 374.

197 start of a solo career or a break with the Beatles: Norman, Paul McCartney, 418.

197 PAUL QUITS BEATLES: Kitty Empire, “Paul McCartney Leaves the Beatles,” The Guardian, June 11, 2011.

197 “I only had me to ask for a decision, and I agreed with me”: “What Paul Said,” Record Mirror, April 18, 1970.

197 “He gets all the credit for it!”: Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Back Bay, 2006), 854.

198 “cardboard tombstone”: Alan Smith, “New LP Shows They Couldn’t Care Less: Have Beatles Sold Out?” New Musical Express, May 9, 1970.

198 “Musically, boys, you passed the audition”: John Mendelsohn, “The Beatles: Let It Be,” Rolling Stone, June 11, 1970.

198 “no one wanted to be the one to say the party’s over”: Norman, Paul McCartney, 419.