Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney (86 page)

Jim McCartney’s last days: author’s interviews with family members and neighbours including Doug Mackenzie (quoted).

Ruth McCartney’s allegations are from interviews with the
Mail on Sunday
(3 Dec. 2006) and
Sunday
magazine (14 Aug. 1988), from which her mother Angie McCartney is quoted.

Death of Jim McCartney: death certificate.

Mike McCartney on PM’s failure to attend their father’s funeral:
Thank U Very Much
(McCartney).

Denny Laine and Mike Robbins quoted from author’s interviews.

Deteriorating relationship between PM and his stepmother is documented in newspaper interviews Angie and Ruth have given over the years, including Angie McCartney’s
Sun
series ‘The Mean Side of Paul McCartney’ (6-8 July 1981) and Ruth McCartney’s interview with
Sunday
magazine (14 Aug. 1988) in which she says that Jim’s allowance was stopped after he died.

MPL Communications and new offices: Companies house and Land Register records.

18: THE GOOD LIFE

Last meetings with John Lennon (JL): author’s interview with Elliot Mintz (quoted);
The Beatles After the Break-Up
(Badman), from which JL’s comments (to
Playboy
magazine) are quoted. Also
Live from New York
(Shales and Miller) and
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman).

Wings Over America tour: author’s interview with Howie Casey and Denny Laine (both quoted);
Club Sandwich
# 2 and 3 (Hammel background); the concert film
Rockshow
; PM’s April 1976 interview with the
Sunday Times
magazine and
Time
(31 May 1976).

LM buys Lucky Spot:
Club Sandwich
# 63.

First Buddy Holly Week luncheon:
Club Sandwich
# 1, 21 and 59.

The McCartney Year: author’s interviews, including a member of PM’s staff who wishes to remain anonymous, and Howie Casey, Adrian Grumi, Mike Robbins and Denny Seiwell.

Venice show:
Club Sandwich
# 1 and the
Daily Express
(27 Sept. 1976).

Income: MPL company records.

PM on his earnings: the
Daily Express
, 11 Feb. 1977.

Purchase and establishment of office at 1 Soho Square/MPL staffing: author’s local enquires and interviews. Thanks to Howie Casey, Lilian Marshall, Richard Ogden and Barry Miles.

Launch of
Club Sandwich
: back issues, including # 10 (Sue Cavanaugh profile) and # 79 (Bert Danher profile).

Sale of 3 Savile Row:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor).

7 Cavendish Avenue in the 1970s: author’s interview with neighbours Brenda Fenton, Evelyn Grumi and her son Adrian (both quoted); also Joe Reddington; and the
Sunday Mirror
(23 May 1976).

Improvements to Waterfall: author’s local enquiries and interviews including Veronica Languish (quoted) and planning records. Denny Laine quoted from author’s interview.

Paulditz:
Sunday Mirror
(undated).

Purchase of Bill Black’s bass:
Club Sandwich
# 1.

‘Boil Crisis’:
The Unknown Paul McCartney
(Peel).

Recording
London Town
: author’s interviews and
Club Sandwich
# 2, 3 and 6.

US Rangers:
Linda McCartney
(Fields).

PM on his row with the captain of the
El Toro
:
Club Sandwich
# 26.

Denny Laine on writing ‘Mull of Kintyre’: author’s interview (quoted).

Recording with the Campbeltown Pipe Band: author’s interviews with pipe band members Ian Campbell, Jimmy McGeachy (father and son), John McGeachy and Ian McKerral.

Jimmy McCulloch leaves Wings:
Blackbird
(Giuliano).

Joe English leaves Wings:
The Paul McCartney Encyclopaedia
(Harry).

James McCartney born: birth certificate. Also 23 Sept. 1977 press release.

Success of ‘Mull of Kintyre’: author’s interviews, press coverage and PM’s commentary on the
McCartney Years
DVD (MPL, 2007).

Tony Bramwell falls out with PM over
London Town
: author’s interview (quoted).

The Rutles: author’s interview with Neil Innes (quoted).

Annie
première:
Club Sandwich
# 8.

New deal with CBS/EMI: the
Observer
(24 June 1979).

Third and final version of Wings: author’s interviews with band members Steve Holley, Laurence Juber and Denny Laine (all quoted). Recording
Back to the Egg
: author’s interviews with Holley, Juber and Laine. The author also referred to his interview with Chris Thomas for the book
Seventies
.

Movie project: author’s interview with Willy Russell (quoted).

Rockestra session: author’s interviews;
Club Sandwich
# 12 and 44. Keith Moon’s demise, including Annette Walter-Lax quote (‘bucket of pills’), is from
Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon
(Fletcher).

Black Dyke Band: author’s interview with Major Peter Parkes.

Frank Music sweetener:
Paul McCartney
(Benson).

PM on his good fortune: the
Observer
(24 June 1979).

19: GO TO JAIL

Heather McCartney problems: author’s interviews and background reading including PM’s comments in
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles) and the
Daily Mail
(12 June 1980).

The move to Sussex: author’s interviews with Rosemary Crouch, Veronica Languish, Barry Miles and Ray Fooks (quoted).

LM quoted on the vegetarian epiphany from the 1989 World Tour book; Laurence Juber quoted from author’s interview.

Purchase of Lower Gate Farm/Blossom Farm: Land Registry and local council planning records.

Eric Clapton’s wedding party: Boyd’s and Clapton’s autobiographies and
Eric Clapton
(Schumacher). GH’s affair with Maureen Starkey:
Wonderful Today
(Boyd).

Jimmy McCulloch dies:
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
(Talevski).

Still planning a
Band on the Run
movie: author’s interviews with Lord Puttnam and Willy Russell (quoted).

GH hated school:
I Me Mine
(Harrison).

Royal Court shows: author’s interviews including Howie Casey (quoted).

PM on playing Beatles songs: quoted from the
Evening Standard
(26 Nov. 1979).

Steve Holley quoted on the Christmas shows, and throughout the chapter, from author’s interview.

Glasgow Apollo Show: author’s interviews with Wings and pipe band members including Ian Campbell (quoted).

The Concerts for Kampuchea: author’s interviews with Wings members (quoted). PM on Julian Lennon’s failure to show:
Club Sandwich
# 37/38.

Japanese bust: author’s interviews with musicians Howie Casey, Steve Holley, Laurence Juber and Denny Laine (all quoted).

Philp Sprayregen quoted from author’s interview.

Fear of rape: PM to
Playboy
(Dec. 1984).

Donald Warren-Knott quoted throughout from author’s interview.

LM quote - ‘the only one …’ -
Woman’s Own
(26 July 1980). Also ‘You take drugs, don’t you?’

PM in Holland quoted from
Sunday Mirror
(21 Jan. 1980).

BL Parker quoted from
Daily Telegraph
(26 Jan. 1980).

I also referred to PM’s interview with the
Sunday Times
(18 May 1980); the
Sunday Times
(Nov. 1984);
The Beatles After the Break-Up
(Badman); and
McCartney: The Biography
(Flippo), re Kenneth Lambert. Conspiracy theory:
The Lives of John Lennon
(Goldman).

Making
McCartney II
: the author referred to PM’s explanations of the songs in
Club Sandwich
# 19; also the
Sunday Times
(18 May 1980).

Laine and Holley tour:
Club Sandwich
# 22.

PM on the revived
Rupert
project:
Daily Express
(7 Nov. 1980); also author’s interview with animator Geoff Dunbar (quoted).

PM’s wedding present to Howie and Sheila Casey: author’s interview with the Caseys (quoted).

Hot Hitz and Kold Kutz
: author’s interviews with Holley and Juber.

Hübers story breaks:
Sunday People
(30 Nov. 1980). Also author’s interviews and correspondence with mother and daughter.

JL death/PM reaction: author’s interview with Denny Laine and Joe Reddington (both quoted). Background reading:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor);
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Miles);
John Lennon: The Life
(Norman). Also author’s interviews with Al Kooper who spent the day after the assassination working in the studio with GH at Friar Park.

LM - ‘I could tell …’ - quoted from
Linda McCartney
(Fields).

PM’s ‘it’s a drag’ reaction quoted verbatim from his TV interview outside AIR Studios.

20: INTO THE EIGHTIES

Cremation and mourning of JL: author’s interviews and
The Lives of John Lennon
(Goldman).

Bill Harry quoted from author’s interview.

Working with Eric Stewart: author’s interview with Stewart (quoted throughout).

Recording in Montserrat: author’s interviews with Steve Gadd (quoted) and Denny Laine. Also
All You Need is Ears
(Martin) and
Club Sandwich
# 24.

Dylan buys bullet-proof vest:
Down the Highway
(Sounes).

Run-in with photographers:
Daily Express
(19 Feb. 1981). No comment from PM was published.

‘Take it Away’ had been intended for RS’ album:
Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker?
(Clayton).

PM on recording with Stevie Wonder:
The McCartney Years
(MPL Communications, 2007).

RS’ wedding and reception:
Club Sandwich
# 24;
Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker?
(Clayton).

Denny Laine leaves Wings: author’s interview and
Club Sandwich
# 24.

PM’s criticism of Michael McCartney and Derek Taylor:
Fifty Years Adrift
(Taylor).

PM’s quoted account of other conversations at the reception:
The Beatles
(Davies).

Angie McCartney’s story: the
Sun
(6-8 July 1981).

Row over the birth certificate and PM quote:
Sunday Mirror
(5 Nov. 1995).

Purchase of the shellac disc: author’s interview with John Duff Lowe (quoted). Thanks also to Colin Hanton. PM quoted from the
Anthology
(book).

PM’s new house at Blossom Farm: planning applications.

1981 riots:
Chronicle of the 20th Century
(Crystal, ed.). Paul’s reaction:
Club Sandwich
# 72.

Lew Grade sells Northern Songs:
McCartney Yesterday & Today
(Coleman);
The Times
(4 Jan. 1982 [PM quote]) and the
Sunday Times
(22 Aug. 1982).

PM on Michael Jackson calling:
Harper’s
(Nov. 1984).

Working with Jackson: author’s interview with Joe Reddington (recalled dialogue between PM and Jackson re: horse riding);
McCartney Yesterday & Today
(Coleman); and PM’s interview with
Rolling Stone
(5 Nov. 1987 [recalled conversation with Jackson re initial phone call]).

Reunion with Peggy Lipton:
Breathing Out
(Lipton).

Heather’s teenage years:
Evening Standard
(20 Nov. 1981), her interview with the
Sunday Times
(28 Nov. 1999 [Heather quoted]);
Club Sandwich
# 25; PM in his 1989 tour booklet (on Heather dating Billy Idol); author’s interviews with Tony Bramwell (quoted), Steve Gadd, Evelyn Grumi and the Languish family of Peasmarsh.

Riding accident: author’s interviews; PM quoted from the
Daily Mail
(11 May 1982).

PM takes up jogging and painting: quoted from interview with the
Sunday Express
(4 May 1997); also
Paul McCartney Paintings
(McCartney).

PM commissions
Rupert and the Frog Song
: author’s interview with Geoff Dunbar (quoted).

Making
Give My Regards to Broad Street
: author’s interviews with Lord Puttnam, Willy Russell and Peter Webb (all quoted). Also Eric Stewart. PM’s interviews in connection with the picture including the
Sunday Times
magazine (4 Nov. 1984) and
Sunday
magazine (30 Sept. 1984). Background reading and the quote ‘a musical fantasy drama …’:
Club Sandwich
# 28.

Financing: author’s interviews and MPL company records.

21: TRIVIAL PURSUITS

Anita Howarth (
née
Cochrane): press coverage in the
Sun
(28 Jan. 1983) and other papers; author’s interview with Peter Brown. Anita Howarth is quoted from the
Daily Star
(1 Feb. 1983).

McCartneys burn
The Love You Make
: interviewed in
Playboy
(Dec. 1984).

Hübers case: press coverage and author’s correspondence with Bettina Hübers and her mother Erika.

PM loses at High Court:
Daily Mail
(15 Feb. 1983).

Jo Jo Laine story:
Sunday People
(17 April 1983).

PM blanks Jo Jo: author’s discussion with her son Boston O’Donohue.

PM talks about Heather McCartney’s punk phase: in the
Sunday Times
, for example, 16 May 1980.

The McCartneys buy their Arizona ranch: author’s local research, Pima County real estate records and interviews with neighbours including Bob Bass and Erwin Eldon (both quoted).