198 “He’s crying, she’s crying, and we’re just trying to hold on to ourselves”: Joe Hagan, “Jann Wenner, John Lennon, and the Greatest Rolling Stone Cover Ever,” Vanity Fair, November 2017.

199 “This music is bringing on the revolution, the unorganized overthrow of the establishment”: David Felton and David Dalton, “Charles Manson: The Incredible Story of the Most Dangerous Man Alive,” Rolling Stone, June 1970.

199 “It’s not my conspiracy. It is not my music”: “Helter Skelter,” BeatlesBible.com.

199 “What’s ‘Helter Skelter’ got to do with knifing somebody?”: Miles, The Beatles Diary, 319.

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200 drink Dr Pepper while they play on a Mellotron: Jude Rogers, “Not the Only One: How Yoko Ono Helped Create John Lennon’s Imagine,” The Guardian, September 6, 2018.

200 “It was like a house of fun”: Event magazine, “John and Yoko Unseen: Playing Pool at His White Mansion, Boating with His Son…Rare and Intimate Photos of Lennon’s Last Idyllic Summer in Britain,” Daily Mail, September 29, 2018.

200 “If you die, will I ever see you again?”: Debra Wallace, “Julian Lennon on His Father’s Legacy, White Feathers, and His New Book Love the Earth,” Parade, April 30, 2019.

200 a loss of $8 million: Barney Hoskyns, 75 Years of Capitol Records (Cologne: Taschen, 2016).

201 “I should have been born in New York, I should have been born in the Village”: Jann S. Wenner, “Lennon Remembers, Part Two,” Rolling Stone, February 4, 1971.

201 Grapefruit, Yoko’s book of poetry: Nell Beram, “The Book That Inspired ’Imagine,’” Slate, July 4, 2014.

201 “For Yoko, Happy Birthday, love John”: “John Lennon Wrote ’Imagine’ on His White Steinway. What Would You Write on Yours?” Daily Mail, July 23, 2011.

201 “I quickly jumped into a white Rolls-Royce with Nicky Hopkins”: Alan di Perna, “’Imagine’ This: How John Lennon and George Harrison Teamed Up to Record a Classic Album in 1971,” Guitar World, May 2019.

202 “It’s a piece of wood with strings on it. You just play it, OK?”: di Perna, “‘Imagine’ This.”

202 “I’m just a guy who writes songs”: Alastair McKay, “Weekend’s Best TV: Imagine All the People Who Adored John Lennon…Then Spare a Thought for David Cassidy,” Evening Standard, November 23, 2018.

202 “always felt responsible for these people because they were the result of his songs”: Rogers, “Not the Only One.”

202 booked the Record Plant: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 38.

203 “the air of a luxurious space capsule”: Hendrik Hertzberg, “Poetic Larks Bid Bald Eagle Welcome Swan of Liverpool,” The New Yorker, December 2, 1972.

203 “Harrison’s guitar playing was more classically beautiful”: di Perna, “’Imagine’ This.”

203 Only Ringo accepts: “The George Harrison Bangla Desh Benefit,” Rolling Stone, September 2, 1971.

203 “wants to go onstage at George’s Bangladesh thing. I’m not gonna do it”: Dan Richter, “What John and Yoko’s Butler Saw: A Surreal Account of the Lennons’ Live-In Assistant During the Last Dark Days of the Beatles,” Daily Mail, August 4, 2012.

203 “We are not trying to make any politics”: Geoffrey Cannon, “George Harrison & Friends: The Concert for Bangladesh,” The Guardian, January 4, 1972.

204 “What Woodstock was said to be”: Cannon, “George Harrison & Friends.”