266 History and time: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 22.

266 personal items: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 19.

267 “Did you see him?” Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 18.

267 “I came all the way across the ocean from Hawaii, and I’m honored to meet you”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 31.

267 “You’d better take care of that runny nose”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 31.

267 “beautiful boy”: CNN Special Report: Killing John Lennon, CNN.com, December 8, 2015.

Chapter 52

268 “You’re all pizza and fairy tales”: Kurt Loder, “Paul McCartney: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, September 11, 1986.

268 “the best insult I could think of was to say, ‘Oh, fuck off, Kojak’”: Loder, “Paul McCartney.”

269 “obvious to me that the two of them had run out of things to say”: Tim Riley, Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music—The Definitive Life (New York: Hyperion, 2011), 641–42.

269 “John was wearing a long black tuxedo with tails”: “John Lennon & Yoko Ono,” People, February 12, 1996.

269 “Paul McCartney had made $25 million”: Philip Norman, “Lennon Has Been Painted a Crazed Recluse. But the Truth Is Very Different—and Deeply Touching…,” Daily Mail, October 6, 2008.

269 “it’s going to take me at least two years”: Norman, “Lennon Has Been Painted a Crazed Recluse.”

269 “I wanted to be with Sean the first five years”: Norman, “Lennon Has Been Painted a Crazed Recluse.”

269 “I took a Polaroid of my first loaf. It was like an album coming out of the oven”: “Picks and Pans Review: The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” People, February 15, 1982.

269 “She’s the world’s most famous unknown artist”: Charlotte Higgins, “The Guardian Profile: Yoko Ono,” The Guardian, June 8, 2012.

269 amass five apartments: Robert Lasson, “A Luxury Building,” New York Times, September 16, 1979.

269 the words helter skelter written in large letters across a wall of the studio: Stephen Birmingham, Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address (New York: Random House, 1979), Kindle.

269 “John and Yoko were as bad as me when it came to shopping”: Elton John, Me (New York: Henry Holt, 2019), 138.

270 “Imagine six apartments, it isn’t hard to do, one is full of fur coats, another’s full of shoes”: John, Me, 138.

270 “My insecurity is having too many clothes”: David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000), 99.

270 “Most artists like myself tend to keep to themselves”: Christine Haughney, “Sharing the Dakota with John Lennon,” New York Times, December 6, 2010.

270 Paul and John tune in to Saturday Night Live: “John Lennon & Yoko Ono.”

270 turned down $230 million from Sid Bernstein: Philip Recchia, “Paul: We Can Work It Out; ’79 Deal OK’d Beatles Reunion Any Time at All,” New York Post, December 5, 2005.