261 “Stay alive in ’75. That’s my motto”: Francis Schoenberger, “He Said, She Said: An Interview with John Lennon,” Spin, October 9, 2019 (reprint of 1975 interview).

261 chronicling all the highs and lows of his separation from her: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 743.

261 Simon and Garfunkel, who split in 1970: Will Levith, “Paul Simon Opens Up About Simon & Garfunkel Breakup,” InsideHook, August 25, 2016.

261 “Hello, I’m John. I used to play with my partner, Paul”: “17th GRAMMYs: Paul Simon and John Lennon Co-Presenting the GRAMMY for Record of the Year,” Genius.com.

261 “Are you guys getting back together again?”: “Paul Simon and John Lennon at the Grammy Awards Were Total Hilarity,” SocietyOfRock.com.

263 “Thank you, Mother”: Jörg Pieper with Ian MacCarthy, The Solo Beatles Film and TV Chronicle 1971–1980 (self-pub., 2019), Lulu.com, 154.

263 “I was glad it was big, and it was quick, so we got maximum effect”: Fawcett, John Lennon, 143.

263 That man is John Mitchell: “John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate,” New York Times, November 10, 1988.

263 “the subject of illegal surveillance activities on the part of the government”: Fawcett, John Lennon, 145.

263 grant a stay on the humanitarian grounds: Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon in America: 1971–1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), 238.

263 “It would have been unconscionable to deport him now”: “A Truce Is Called in Lennon’s Deportation Fight So He Can Comfort the Pregnant Yoko,” People, October 13, 1975.

263 “governmental action was based principally on a desire to silence political opposition”: Arnold H. Lubasch, “Deportation of Lennon Barred by Court of Appeals,” New York Times, October 8, 1975.

263 Chief Judge Irving Kaufman: Marilyn Berger, “Judge Irving Kaufman, of Rosenberg Spy Trial and Free-Press Rulings, Dies at 81,” New York Times, February 3, 1992.

263 “will not condone selective deportation based on secret political grounds”: Lubasch, “Deportation of Lennon Barred by Court of Appeals.”

263 “It’s a great birthday gift from America for me, Yoko, and the baby”: Lubasch, “Deportation of Lennon Barred by Court of Appeals.”

264 “I feel higher than the Empire State Building!”: Fawcett, John Lennon, 146.

264 “John and Yoko and Sean (three virgins)”: Andy Greene, “50th Anniversary Flashback: Inside John Lennon’s Long History with Rolling Stone,” Rolling Stone, July 14, 2017.

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265 “You wouldn’t happen to know whether John Lennon might be planning on coming out today, would you?”: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon (New York: Villard Books, 1992), 25.

266 T-shirt promoting Todd Rundgren’s 1978 solo album: James McMahon, “The Shooting of John Lennon: Will Mark David Chapman Ever Be Released?,” The Independent, March 2, 2020.

266 brand-new Bic pen: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 36.

266 This is my statement: “A Look Back at Mark David Chapman in His Own Words,” Larry King Live, CNN.com, September 30, 2000.