296 “one of the most famous people in the world walking around New York City without security”: Charles Shaar Murray, “John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy,” New Musical Express, November 22, 1980.

296 “This one’s for Gene, and Eddie, and Elvis”: Mike Joseph, “Revisiting John Lennon’s Last No. 1: ‘(Just Like) Starting Over,’” UltimateClassicRock.com, December 27, 2015.

296 “It’s a fifties song made with an eighties approach”: Sholin and Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview.”

296 “the same kind of period-sound as ‘Starting Over’”: Sholin and Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview.”

296 “Please get me some pictures without Yoko”: “Final Portrait of John and Yoko Appears on the Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,’” History.com, November 16, 2009.

297 “They like the album too much”: John Swenson, “Cry for a Shadow,” Creem, March 1981.

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298 “I’m happy to be forty years old”: Albert Goldman, “John and Yoko’s Troubled Road Part II,” People, August 22, 1988.

298 “The old bugger still has a wonderful voice by the way”: Charles Shaar Murray, “John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy,” New Musical Express, November 22, 1980.

298 John and Yoko pose for the photographer in front of the Dakota: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 268.

298 “Go on, Mimi, spoil yourself”: Badman, The Beatles Diary, 268.

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300 “Where are you staying in New York?”: 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), 29.

300 “Why the hell did you ask me that question?”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 30.

300 the coat holds the gun: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 30.

300 two beers and a hamburger: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 30.

300 visit Hawaii: Vicki Sheff, “The Betrayal of John Lennon,” Playboy, March 1984.

300 set your mind: Sheff, “The Betrayal of John Lennon.”

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301 the Teddy Boy look: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 805.

302 “Just a daddy”: Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview, December 8, 1980,” BeatlesArchive.net.

302 first worked together in 1970: Andy Greene, “50th Anniversary Flashback: Inside John Lennon’s Long History with Rolling Stone,” July 14, 2017.

302 “I really want Yoko to be on the cover with me”: Billy Heller and Michael Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot,” New York Post, December 4, 2005.

302 “‘I want to be with her’”: “Final Portrait of John and Yoko Appears on the Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,’” History.com, November 16, 2009.

302 the nude Two Virgins shot: Carl M. Cannon, “John and Yoko and Annie: An Enduring Image of Love,” RealClearPolitics.com, January 22, 2016.

302 “This is our relationship”: Greene, “50th Anniversary Flashback.”

303 “Ooh, can I have one with the jacket?”: Sholin and Kaye, “John Lennon’s Last Interview.”

303 “I hope to God that I die before Yoko”: CNN Special Report: Killing John Lennon, CNN.com, December 8, 2015.

303 “just bubbling over with enthusiasm with everything in his life”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”