256 “today looked on with as much awe as a release by the Beatles in the sixties”: Chris Charlesworth, “David Bowie: Diamond Dogs,” Melody Maker, May 11, 1974.

257 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: Susan E. Booth, “‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’—David Bowie (1972),” National Registry, Library of Congress, 2016.

257 “It’s just fooking rock and roll with lipstick”: Brown, “David Bowie.”

257 Electric Lady Studios: Liesl Schillinger, “Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios Turns 45,” Wall Street Journal Magazine, August 12, 2015.

257 add a cover of “Across the Universe”: Jeff Giles, “Revisiting David Bowie’s R&B Move, ‘Young Americans,’” UltimateClassicRock.com, March 7, 2016.

257 “It’s not a matter of craftsmanship; it wrote itself”: David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000), quoted in “Across the Universe,” BeatlesBible.com.

257 eliminating the Sanskrit mantra “Jai guru deva om”: Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie, 6th ed. (London: Titan Books, 2016), 5.

258 “It’s one of my favorite songs, but I didn’t like my version of it”: Pegg, The Complete David Bowie, 4.

258 “‘I don’t want to do these interviews! I don’t want to have these photographs taken!’”: Giles, “Revisiting David Bowie’s R&B Move.”

258 “What was that riff you had?”: Jack Whatley, “The Story Behind the Song: David Bowie and John Lennon’s Middle Finger to ‘Fame,’” Far Out, December 5, 2019.

258 “I play any guitar that pays”: Kory Grow, “David Bowie Guitarist Carlos Alomar: ‘He Was So Damn Curious,’” Rolling Stone, January 11, 2016.

258 “He goes in with about four words and a few guys”: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Interview by Andy Peebles, BBC Radio 1, December 6, 1980.

258 “God, that session was fast”: Giles, “Revisiting David Bowie’s R&B Move.”

258 “John and I wrote a song together and we recorded and mixed it”: Giles, “Revisiting David Bowie’s R&B Move.”

259 “I wouldn’t know how to pick a single if it hit me in the face”: “Today in Music History: David Bowie’s ‘Fame’ Went No. 1,” The Current Morning Show, Minnesota Public Radio, September 20, 2019.

259 “And we made a record out of it”: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Interview by Andy Peebles, BBC Radio 1, December 6, 1980.

259 Paul suggests that John come down to record with him in New Orleans: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 372.

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260 “I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months”: Chrissy Iley, “Yoko Ono: ‘John’s Affair Wasn’t Hurtful to Me. I Needed a Rest. I Needed Space,’” The Telegraph, March 27, 2012.

260 “having a baby was important to us and that anything else was subsidiary to that”: David Sheff, “Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Playboy, January 1981.

260 John books a country house: Anthony Fawcett, John Lennon: One Day at a Time (New York: Grove Press, 1976), 119.