270 “all you have to do is sing three Beatles songs”: “April 24, 1976: John and Paul Almost Go on SNL,” BestClassicBands.com, April 24, 2017.

271 watch for any Beatles entering the lobby: Phil Dyess-Nugent, “Saturday Night Live (Classic): ‘Raquel Welch,’” AVClub.com, September 29, 2013.

271 “Wouldn’t it be funny if we went down”: Riley, Lennon, 645.

271 “we decided it was too much like work”: Paul McCartney, interview by the authors, 2019.

271 studio audience refuses to sing along: Dyess-Nugent, “Saturday Night Live (Classic).”

271 “It’s not 1956 and turning up at the door isn’t the same anymore”: David Sheff, “Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Playboy, January, 1981.

271 a diagnosis of terminal stomach cancer: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 384.

271 “I’m sorry I treated you the way I did, Dad”: Riley, Lennon, 644.

271 “It’s just bloody marvelous to talk to you again”: Riley, Lennon, 644.

272 “They’d go to Central Park for picnics”: “John Lennon & Yoko Ono.”

272 United States should finally issue him a green card: Leslie Maitland, “John Lennon Wins His Residency in U.S.,” New York Times, July 28, 1976.

272 “I wish to continue to live here with my family and continue making music”: Chris Charlesworth, “John Lennon Gets His Ticket to Ride,” Melody Maker, August 7, 1976.

273 “Justice for John & Yoko!”: Hendrik Hertzberg, “Songs of the Poetic Larks,” The New Yorker, October 10, 2010.

273 “prove that John was an important figure to the well-being of American society”: Geraldo Rivera, interview by the authors, 2019.

273 “the Lennons will help do something about it”: Charlesworth, “John Lennon Gets His Ticket to Ride.”

273 “one of the great artists of the Western world”: Charlesworth, “John Lennon Gets His Ticket to Ride.”

273 “It’s great to be legal again!”: Maitland, “John Lennon Wins His Residency in U.S.”

273 “See, I thought you would understand”: Damian Fanelli, “George Harrison and Paul Simon Play ‘Here Comes the Sun,’” Guitar Player, October 13, 2017.

274 George plays the opening chords to “Here Comes the Sun”: Robert Rodriguez, Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles Solo Years, 1970–1980 (New York: Backbeat Books, 2010), 65.

274 “God, it’d be cool to do something like that”: Chris Handyside, Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of the White Stripes (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004), 212.

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275 Linda Ronstadt sings onstage at the Kennedy Center: Emily Heil, “From Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama, Aretha Franklin Was the Soundtrack for Presidents,” Washington Post, August 16, 2018.

275 a $175 suit he brought with him: Sarah Pruitt, “10 Unexpected Moments in Presidential Inauguration History,” History.com, August 22, 2018.

275 “I used to be a Beatle”: “The Famed Dakota: The Lennon Residence (1973–1980),” BeatlesHistorian.com.

275 the armed guard, nearly ten thousand strong, that Nixon marshaled in 1969: Pruitt, “10 Unexpected Moments in Presidential Inauguration History.”