204 “much easier for me to say I’m not taking anything, so I don’t have to answer any questions”: “The George Harrison Bangla Desh Benefit.”

204 eventually embroiled in several lawsuits: Pierre Perrone, “Allen Klein: Notorious Business Manager for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,” The Independent, July 6, 2009.

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205 “You could say I fell in love with New York on a street corner”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 683.

205 six-month B-2 tourist visas: Jon Wiener, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999), 213.

205 “Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lennon”: Hendrik Hertzberg, “Poetic Larks Bid Bald Eagle Welcome Swan of Liverpool,” The New Yorker, December 2, 1972.

205 “cheaper and more functional to actually live here”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 47.

206 “‘You can have my wife, but you can’t have my child’”: David Sheff, “Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Playboy, January 1981.

206 “We love it, and it’s the center of our world”: Hendrik Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere,” The New Yorker, January 1, 1972.

206 “America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 347.

206 “They’re like me…they don’t believe in wasting time”: Norman, John Lennon, 683.

206 “John has a New York temperament in his work”: Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere.”

206 “walk around the streets and parks and squares”: Norman, John Lennon, 683.

206 “unbelievably creative atmosphere”: Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere.”

206 “Everywhere’s somewhere, and everywhere’s the same, really, and wherever you are is where it’s at”: Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere.”

206 “I’m proud to be a New York hippie!”: Hertzberg, “Poetic Larks Bid Bald Eagle Welcome Swan of Liverpool.”

207 “we got moved on by the police, and it was all very wonderful”: Steve Marinucci, “Anti-Establishment Icon David Peel Dies at 73,” Billboard, April 6, 2017.

207 “Picasso spent 40 years trying to get as simple as that”: Daniel Kreps, “David Peel, Folk Singer and Counterculture Figure, Dead at 73,” Rolling Stone, April 7, 2017.

207 “We loved his music, his spirit, and his philosophy of the street”: William Grimes, “David Peel, Downtown Singer and Marijuana Evangelist, Dies at 74,” New York Times, April 9, 2017.

207 The Pope Smokes Dope by David Peel and the Lower East Side: Marinucci, “Anti-Establishment Icon David Peel Dies at 73.”

207 “He was deadly serious, but he knew how to have fun”: Dave Thompson, “Remembering David Peel,” Goldmine, April 6, 2017.

207 “New York City is your friend”: Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere.”

207 “everybody seems to know everybody”: Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere.”

207 three hotel rooms: Badman, The Beatles Diary, 47.

208 “I can do the scene better”: Badman, The Beatles Diary, 47.

208 “The close friendship between Jerry Rubin and John Lennon (and Yoko)”: Ron Hart, “Yoko and the Yippies,” Rock & Roll Globe, December 17, 2018.

208 “Yoko Ono told me and Abbie that they considered us to be great artists”: Mitch Myers, “Activist Jerry Rubin’s 1970 Protest Boogie with Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Chronicled in New Biography (Excerpt),” Variety, August 22, 2017.

208 the same building: Hertzberg, “Everywhere’s Somewhere.”