281 “Billy, I have all your records!”: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 780.

281 “I’d like to go say hi to Billy Joel but I don’t want to bother him”: “Hear Billy Joel Pay Homage to John Lennon on His Birthday,” Hear & Now, SiriusXM.com, October 9, 2016.

281 “We both respected each other’s privacy”: “Hear Billy Joel Pay Homage to John Lennon on His Birthday.”

281 Paul Goresh: Anthony G. Attrino, “N.J. Man Who Took Last Photo of John Lennon Recalls Tragedy,” NJ.com, December 07, 2015.

281 “casting a shadow over his life and creativity”: San Souci, “There’s No Place Like Nowhere.”

282 Megan Jaye, a forty-three-foot Hinckley sloop: “John Lennon’s Newport to Bermuda Sailing Voyage,” Newport Buzz, December 8, 2019.

282 Hank Halsted: San Souci, “There’s No Place Like Nowhere.”

282 “John, since you’re the least experienced sailor on board, I’m appointing you ship’s cook”: San Souci, “There’s No Place Like Nowhere.”

282 “You just affected 50 million people there to the positive, big boy”: Norman, John Lennon, 790.

282 “I’m going to raise my son”: San Souci, “There’s No Place Like Nowhere.”

283 “I’m gonna need some help here, big boy”: Norman, John Lennon, 791.

283 “He was thin, but very wiry and strong”: Tyler Coneys, interview by the authors, 2019.

283 It’s like being onstage; once you’re on there’s no gettin’ off: David Sheff, “Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Playboy, January 1981.

283 “I feel like a Viking!”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 252.

283 his dead sailor father: Norman, John Lennon, 792.

284 “a man who was just enraptured”: Norman, John Lennon, 792.

284 I was screaming sea chanteys and shoutin’ at the gods!: Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life (New York: Pegasus Books, 2018), 392.

284 requests a guitar: San Souci, “There’s No Place Like Nowhere.”

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285 Undercliff, a house two miles from Bermuda’s capital, Hamilton: John McCarthy, “How John Lennon Rediscovered His Music in Bermuda,” Daily Beast, July 11, 2017.

285 his Ovation acoustic guitar: Ken Sharp, “Lennon’s Last Session: The Making of Double Fantasy,” Record Collector, n.d.

285 two Panasonic boom boxes: Sharp, “Lennon’s Last Session.”

285 “This one’s for Mister Starkey”: Sharp, “Lennon’s Last Session.”

285 That song’s not good enough: Robert Hilburn, “In My Life: Robert Hilburn’s ‘Corn Flakes with John Lennon,’” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2009.

286 “I’m getting all this stuff”: Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview, December 8, 1980,” BeatlesArchive.net.

286 “Incredible song”: Ken Sharp, Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy (New York: Gallery Books, 2010), 154.

286 Yoko has written a companion song: Sharp, Starting Over, 154.

286 “I like it to be inspirational—from the spirit”: Sholin and Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview.”

286 “for the first time since 1967”: Sholin and Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview.”

286 “It sounds just like Yoko’s music”: Travis M. Andrews, “Forty Years Ago, ‘Rock Lobster’ Launched the Career of the B-52s—and Revived John Lennon’s,” Washington Post, April 6, 2018.