Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney (84 page)

Dudley Edwards quoted from author’s interview.

Ned Rorem on
Sgt. Pepper
:
Time
(22 Sept. 1967).

Sir Joseph Lockwood quoted from the
Sunday Times
(14 May 1967).

US record sales: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

JL on
Sgt. Pepper
:
Lennon Remembers
(Wenner).

PM’s purchase of High Park: author’s interviews and local enquiries in Kintyre with particular thanks to Jamie and Katie Black (quoted and recalled dialogue), Rory and Mary Colville, Alice and Duncan McLean, and Jimmy McGeachy (father and son).

Inspiration for ‘The Long and Winding Road’: PM interviewed for
Club Sandwich
# 41. Also the
Daily Express
(15 June 1967).

‘Christ, it’s a Beatle!’: recalled by Rory Colville in an interview with the author.

PM meets the Campbeltown Pipe Band: author’s interview with Jim McGeachy Snr (quoted).

PM’s LSD confession:
People
(18 June 1967).

Use of cocaine and heroin:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

Drug busts: author’s interviews with John Hopkins, Prince Stanislas de Rola and others. Background reading:
Faithfull
(Marianne Faithfull);
Symphony for the Devil
(Norman);
Old Gods Almost Dead
(Davis) and
In the Sixties
(Miles).

GH on PM’s LSD confession: the
Anthology
(book).

Aunt Ginny and the spliff: author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted).

‘Come Back Milly!’: videotape of
Our World
.

GM’s difficult week: his book
All You Need is Ears
. Thanks also to David Mason.

Apple School:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor). Also author’s interview with Janet Vaughan.

Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger are quoted from the author’s interviews and correspondence, except ‘It is wrong …’ which is from
Rolling Stone
(9 Nov. 1967).

Magic Alex: author’s interviews with associates and background reading.

Maharishi background: his
Daily Telegraph
obituary (7 Feb. 2008).

Trip to Bangor: press reports including the
Sunday Times
(27 Aug. 1967).

Cynthia Lennon quoted from her book,
John
.

BE’s decline and death: author’s interviews with Peter Brown (quoted), E. Rex Makin and Nat Weiss (quoted).

BE on PM:
A Cellarful of Noise
(Epstein).

‘mincing along’ quote: author’s interview with Ron Ellis, who knew the band in the early days.

PM on his friendship with Robert Fraser:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

Rolling Stones’ advance:
Symphony for the Devil
(Norman).

Epstein’s death: author’s interview with Peter Brown except ‘Paul was shocked and saddened …’, which is from
The Love You Make
(Brown). Also press coverage of the Beatles’ reactions.

11 : PAUL TAKES CHARGE

BE’s death reported:
Daily Mirror
(28 Aug. 1967).

E. Rex Makin on BE’s death: quoted from author’s interview.

Aftermath of BE’s death: author’s interview with Peter Brown (quoted).

Peter Theobald on
Magical Mystery Tour
quoted from
Look of London
(20 Jan. 1968). Also PM quote to Theobald.

Magical Mystery Tour
background: author’s interviews and background reading including the
Anthology
(book) and
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
(Lewisohn).

Catherine Osborne quoted from the
Daily Express
(4 Sept. 1967).

Raymond Revue Bar scene: author’s interview with Neil Innes (JL comment recalled by).

Hunter Davies quoted from his feature for the
Sunday Times
(24 Dec. 1967).

Jamie Black quoted from author’s interview.

Jane Asher on how PM had changed:
The Beatles
(Davies).

Dudley Edwards swaps a statue of Shiva for Jane’s Ford: author’s interview (quoted).

Arguments at Rembrandt: Angela McCartney to the
Sun
(7 July 1981).

PM and Jane Asher on their relationship:
The Beatles
(Davies).

PM on the reception for
Magical Mystery Tour
:
Daily Mirror
(28 Dec. 1967).

GH - ‘the world famous …’ - the
Anthology
(book).

PM on the bridge:
Life
(18 March 1968).

PM on his discussion with GH in Rishikesh and the scene there: the
Anthology
(book); also
At the Apple’s Core
(O’Dell) and
Wonderful Today
(Boyd).

Apple Records: author’s interviews with Sir John Tavener (quoted) and others.

PM on ‘Come and Get it’: the
Anthology
(book).

Mary Hopkin recording: PM is quoted from an Apple press release reproduced in
Fifty Years Adrift
. The author also referred to Hopkin’s 1992 interview with
Goldmine
and a May 2009 interview for BBC Radio 4’s
Front Row
.

Trip to New York: author’s interviews and background reading including
At the Apple’s Core
(O’Dell).

PM to New York press:
The Beatles Off the Record
(Badman).

PM meets LM in New York: LM quoted from her book,
Sixties
; Nat Weiss quoted from author’s interview.

Yoko Ono (YO) background:
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman), including JL quote;
John
(Cynthia Lennon), including Cynthia Lennon’s quote; and
The John Lennon Encyclopaedia
(Harry).

YO goes first to PM:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

12: WEIRD VIBES

White Album
demo session:
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
(Lewisohn).

Opening of Apple Tailoring: Apple Press Office Timeline in
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor).

Tony Bramwell quoted from author’s interview.

PM’s reaction to Yoko joining the recording sessions and Yoko quote:
Here, There and Everywhere
(Emerick).

Xenophobic and sexist remarks:
The Love You Make
(Brown).

Mike McCartney’s wedding: author’s interview with Tony Barrow (quoted),
Thank U Very Much
(McCartney) and
The Beatles Unseen
(Hayward).

PM’s affair with Francie Schwartz, her quotes and recalled dialogue:
Body Count
(Schwartz). Also author’s interview with Tony Bramwell (quoted), Barry Miles and others.

PM on ‘Blackbird’:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

PM in LA: author’s interview with Tony Bramwell, quotes and recalled dialogue, except ‘We were all conscious …’ which is from the
Mail on Sunday
(14 March 1999).

Peggy Lipton is quoted from her book
Breathing Out
.

LM - ‘dirty weekend’ -
Wingspan
documentary (MPL, 2001).

Recording
Thingumybob
: author’s interviews with Roy Newsome and Geoffrey Brand (quoted).

Arguments in the studio, including dialogue between JL and PM, ‘granny music shit’ and row with GM:
Here, There and Everywhere
(Emerick).

GM indiscretion:
I Should Have Known Better
(Ellis).

Chris Thomas on first working with PM:
Sound on Sound
(Dec. 1995).

Culmination of Schwartz affair, dialogue and aftermath:
Body Count
(Schwartz). NB: Maggie McGivern makes it plain in her interview with the
Daily Mail
(12 April 1997) that she was also seeing PM at this time, though it is not clear whether she is the woman whose home he visited the night he was with Schwartz.

Jane Asher’s appearance on Simon Dee’s show:
Sunday Mirror
(21 July 1968).

Tony Bramwell and Jann Haworth reaction quoted from author’s interviews.

JL and YO come to stay:
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman) and
Body Count
(Schwartz).

Ending of Schwartz affair: her book
Body Count
. Miles made it clear in an interview with the author that PM had asked her to leave before.

Tony Barrow on the Asher break-up: interview with author.

PM visits Cynthia:
John
(Cynthia Lennon) including quotation.

PM on ‘Hey Jude’:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

PM on the Apple Shop closure:
Shout!
(Norman).

‘Hey Jude’ graffiti:
The Beatles: A Diary
(Miles) and
The Beatles Book
(Dec. 2001).

Filming ‘Hey Jude’ promo: author’s interview with Michael Lindsay-Hogg (quoted).

Sending out the Apple discs:
The Longest Cocktail Party
(DiLello).

The Queen to Sir Joseph Lockwood, and his reaction to the
Two Virgins
sleeve:
Shout!
(Norman).

Bad vibes/RS leaving the band: the
Anthology
(book).

RS quote:
Postcards from the Boys
(Starr).

Several chicks at Cavendish:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

LM gets the call:
Linda McCartney
(Fields).

Marty Balin quoted from author’s interview.

LM on her decision to come to London:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

13: WEDDING BELLS

JL drug bust:
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman).

Peter Brown quoted from author’s interview.

PM on being in New York quoted from
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles); also
Wingspan
(MPL, 2001).

Philip Sprayregen and Danny Fields quoted from author’s interviews.

PM on Heather at infants school:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

Heather McCartney on her childhood:
Sunday Times
(28 Nov. 1999).

Life at High Park: an interview with the McCartneys in the
Evening Standard
(22 April 1971);
Melody Maker
(20 Nov. 1971); and
Sixties
(Linda McCartney).

LM stops using the Pill:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

LM - ‘You know, I could make you …’ - recalled by PM in the
Wingspan
documentary (MPL, 2001).

Richard Hamilton background and quotes:
Remake/Remodel
(Bracewell).

White Album
sales: RIAA.

PM produces ‘I am the Urban Spaceman’: author’s interview with Neil Innes (quoted).

PM visits Hunter Davies:
The Beatles
(Davies).

Philip Sprayregen quoted from author’s interview.

David Jacobs dies:
Guardian
(20 Dec. 1968).

Hell’s Angels for Xmas:
The Longest Cocktail Party
(DiLello), including GH quote and lead stripped from the roof.

JL’s Christmas recording:
The Love You Make
(Brown).

Glyn Johns on
Get Back
: author’s interview (quoted).

What JL said to GM about an ‘honest album’: the
Anthology
(book).

Michael Lindsay-Hogg quoted from author’s interviews.

‘Two of Us’ about PM and LM: PM in
Wingspan
(MPL, 2001).

Band dialogue from the movie
Let It Be.

GH ‘bringing home bad vibes’:
Wonderful Today
(Boyd).

PM assumed JL was joking about hiring Clapton: the
Anthology
(book).

Magic Alex’s useless studio:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor);
All You Need is Ears
(Martin); and author’s interview with Glyn Johns (quoted).

Origins of ‘Let it Be’ and ‘The Long and Winding Road’:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles).

Origins of ‘Get Back’:
Revolution in the Head
(MacDonald).

Beverly Wilk on Mel See quoted from author’s interview.

JL to Ray Coleman:
The Lives of John Lennon
(Goldman).

Allen Klein background: author’s interviews and Philip Norman’s books
Symphony for the Devil
and
Shout!

Peter Brown quotes: author’s interview.

Derek Taylor’s boozy press room and Brown’s lunches:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor).

Beatles dialogue about the concert: recorded conversation from the
Let It Be
sessions.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg on the rooftop concert: author’s interview (quoted).

Glyn Johns on his version of
Let It Be
: quoted from author’s interviews.

PM’s marriage to Linda Eastman: marriage certificate; author’s interviews, news footage and contemporaneous reports in
The Times
and
Daily Mirror
(both 13 March 1960 [LM quoted from the
Mirror
]).

Mike McCartney best man:
Thank U Very Much
(McCartney).

PM on the pre-marital row:
Woman
(1 Dec. 1984).

Jill and hairdresser and the Apple Scruffs/‘The Eyes and Ears of the World’:
Waiting for the Beatles
(Bedford).

GH’s drug bust:
The Longest Cocktail Party
(DiLello) and
The Beatles
(Spitz).

LM gave the impression she was an Eastman-Kodak: Danny Fields has her saying so in his biography to impress people during her early photographic assignments.

John and Yoko marry: Les Anthony’s interview with the
News of the World
(4 June 1972) and
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman).