252 “I didn’t sign it because my astrologer told me it wasn’t the right day”: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 371.

252 “the first anyone had ever heard of him having an astrologer”: Connolly, Being John Lennon, 371.

252 he’s no longer wanted onstage tonight: Allan Kozinn, “A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend,’” New York Times, March 12, 2008.

252 Paul, the peacemaker, comes over to John and May’s apartment: Kozinn, “A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend.’”

253 “The friendship was still there. They were brothers. There was no animosity”: Kozinn, “A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend.’”

253 “give Julian a good time for his Christmas holiday, somewhere warm”: Joe Capozzi, “John Lennon’s Last Years in Palm Beach,” Palm Beach Post, November 1, 2018.

253 “A few days in Palm Beach, a day or two at Disney World”: Capozzi, “John Lennon’s Last Years in Palm Beach.”

253 “I don’t like being famous”: Capozzi, “John Lennon’s Last Years in Palm Beach.”

253 the Polynesian Village Resort at Disney World: May Pang, Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), 101.

253 “Take out your camera”: Pang, Instamatic Karma, 98.

254 “replaying the entire Beatles experience in his mind”: Kozinn, “A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend.’”

254 “As he had started the group, he was the one to end it”: Kozinn, “A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend.’”

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255 the twenty-first birthday party Dean Martin threw for his son Ricci: Ricci Martin with Christopher Smith, That’s Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002), 141.

255 Other guests included Ringo, Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor: Martin and Smith, That’s Amore, 141.

255 “He loved the old-time Hollywood stars”: Roger Friedman, “David Bowie Was Introduced to John Lennon by the Greatest Hollywood Icon,” Showbiz411.com, January 11, 2016.

255 “Miss Taylor had been trying to get me to make a movie with her”: “David Bowie Tells a Story About John Lennon,” BeatlesArchive.net.

255 “I mean she was a nice woman and all”: Cameron Crowe, “David Bowie: Ground Control to Davy Jones,” Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976.

256 “‘Don’t mention the Beatles, you’ll look really stupid’”: “David Bowie Tells a Story About John Lennon.”

256 “most uncool to actually say you liked the Beatles in any way, shape, or form”: Jenny Desborough, “David Bowie John Lennon: Bowie Reveals Lennon’s ‘SPITEFUL Sense of Humour,’” Express, April 11, 2020.

256 “he defined for me, at any rate, how one could twist and turn the fabric of pop”: “David Bowie Tells a Story About John Lennon.”

256 “one of the brightest, quickest witted, earnestly socialist men I’ve ever met”: Desborough, “David Bowie John Lennon.”

256 “a really spiteful sense of humour which of course, being English, I adored”: Desborough, “David Bowie John Lennon.”

256 the elaborate sets for his Diamond Dogs Tour: Mick Brown, “David Bowie: ‘I Have Done Just About Everything That It’s Possible to Do,’” Daily Telegraph, December 14, 1996.