Authors: Bob Spitz
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography / General, #Music / Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal
“
I was thinking, ‘This is going to be’
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 229.
“
Right—that’s it
”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 8/31/97.
“
Is Beatlemania Dead?
”:
Time,
9/2/66.
Derek Taylor, writing
:
Melody Maker,
11/26/66.
“
impact… and mythology
”: “The Beatles Break,”
Sunday Times,
11/13/66.
“
hanging around
”: “And as anybody knows about film work, there’s a lot of hanging around.” Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 130.
“
He loathed the endless waiting
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 320.
“
It was pretty damn boring
”: John Lennon in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 251.
“
He used to sit cross-legged
”: Michael Crawford in ibid., p. 250.
“
conjuring up a hazy impressionistic
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 14.
“
psychoanalysis set to music
”: John Lennon, 1970 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 231.
“
an old Victorian house
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
pp. 131–32.
“
It [provided] an escape
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 307.
“
There was something about the place
”: Goldman,
Lives of John Lennon,
p. 255.
“
I took the name… as an image
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 131.
“
travel incognito, disguised
”:
Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 295.
“
to ease the pressure
”: Ibid., p. 296.
“
Let’s not be ourselves
”: Ibid., p. 303.
“
put some distance between
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 166.
“
We would be Sgt. Pepper’s band
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 241.
“
I had gone through so many trips
”: George Harrison in ibid.
“
You’ve got to be connected spiritually
”: Author interview with Arthur Kelly, 1/10/98.
“
feeling would begin to vibrate
”: “Soon this feeling would begin to vibrate right through me and started getting bigger and bigger and faster and faster.” Giuliano,
Dark Horse,
p. 92.
“
hung out with him
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 231.
“
he offered to give me some instruction
”: Giuliano,
Dark Horse,
p. 93.
“
how to sit and hold the sitar
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 233.
Shankar’s “disciple
”: “George had not come as a Beatle but as my disciple.” Shankar,
My Music, My Life.
“
Sometimes [George] would play
”: Giuliano,
Dark Horse,
p. 95.
“
harmonizing with a greater power
”: Ibid., p. 93.
“
by various holy men
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 233.
“
Ravi and the sitar were excuses
”: Ibid.
“
blood money
”: “Just give him his blood money.” Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 216.
“
Don’t do anything else
”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“
just indulging himself
”: Author interview with Peter Brown;
Arena
archives.
“
morbid,” often incoherent
: Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 217.
“
Nothing I said or did
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
The collapse, when it eventually came
: “I didn’t see it coming.” Ibid.
“
I stayed in the library
”: Ibid., 12/2/97.
“
a foolish accident
”: Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 217.
“
I can’t deal with this anymore
”: Peter Brown,
Arena
archives.
“
But none of us, however shortsighted
”: Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“
You must be
mad!
”: Author interview with Ken Partridge, 1/18/98.
“
He wanted to be Ziegfeld
”: Author interview with Don Black, 1/18/98.
“
terrible” musical
: Ibid.
“
During the week, we had Gilbert and Sullivan
”: Author interview with Tony Bramwell, 8/6/97.
an ominous melancholy
: “When John came back, he was in a serious funk.” Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
“
There was so much going on
”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
The future of the Beatles
: “At some time or other that’s when I really started considering life without the Beatles—what would it be?” John Lennon, 1980 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 231.
“
There were all those Chelsea people
”: Green,
Days in the Life,
p. 76.
“
We never had a painting as such
”: Aitken,
The Young Meteors.
to “liberate art as a commodity
”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“
a real happening
”: “I told him it would be a real happening.” Ibid.
“
I thought, ‘Hmm,’ you know, ‘sex’
”: John Lennon, 1980 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 235.
“
Well, watching telly
”: Green,
Days in the Life,
p. 79.
“
I was in a highly unshaved… state
”: John Lennon, 1980 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 235.
sat in the car for “some time
”: Les Anthony, 3/87, AGA.
“
bullshit and phony
”: Peter McCabe interview, 7/71, AGA.
“
When he came in, it was like
”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“
flittering around like crazy
”:
Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 86.
“mirror to see your behind”
:
Unfinished Paintings and Objects,
Indica Gallery catalogue.
“
Is this stuff for real?
”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“
This is a joke
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 86.
“
It looked like a black canvas
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
pp. 173–74.
“
You take a magnifying glass
”: Peter McCabe interview, 7/71.
“
I argued strongly
”: Author interview with John Dunbar, 1/13/98.
“
Okay, you can hammer
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 88.
“
I’ll give you an imaginary
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 327.
“
My God,” she thought
: Peter McCabe interview, 7/71.
“
John was a fun drug-taker
”: Author interview with Terry Doran, 8/13/97.
“
first high-voltage superblues group
”: Dalton & Kaye,
Rock 100,
p. 122.
“
Show business will vibrate
”: “Beach Boys Beat Beatles,”
NME,
12/3/66.
“
We’re all four fans
”: “Paul and Ringo Talk about the Beatles,”
NME,
12/31/66.
“
This idea of jealousy
”: Ibid.
pure “rubbish
”: Ibid.
“
two of the Beatles had approached
”:
Sunday Telegraph,
11/18/66.
“
I think we were itching to get going
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 237.
“
it was absolutely lovely
”: George Martin interview, 12/5/80, in Okun,
The Compleat Beatles,
p. 40.
“
I was spellbound
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
pp. 13–14.
Martin cursed himself
: “Oh, how I wish I had caught that very first run-through on tape and released it!” Ibid., p. 14.
which took over forty-five hours
: Lewisohn,
Sessions,
pp. 87–90.
“
about 80% separately written
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 237.
“
creative rivalry
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 70.
“
were often answering each other’s songs
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 307.
“
John and I would often meet
”: Ibid.
“
in the middle of the roundabout
”: Lyric fragment from “Penny Lane.”
its euphonious name
: “He’d been toying with the idea of writing a song called ‘Penny Lane’ because he liked the poetry of the name.” Lewisohn,
Sessions,
p. 91.
“
painted in an exploding psychedelic
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 259.
“
more like a play
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 237.
“
The lyrics were all based
”: Ibid.
“
a small collection of gems
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 26.
“
rooty-tooty variety
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 319.
Beatles performed at the Cavern
: Lewisohn,
Sessions,
p. 89.
“
a bit of a shock
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 239.
“
an old trap
”: Ibid.
“
Quiet honestly,” he admitted
: “Most Way-Out Beatles Ever,”
NME,
2/11/67.
“
the Beatles have developed into
”: “Other Noises, Other Notes,”
Time,
3/3/67.
“
The people who have bought our records
”: John Lennon, 1967 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 241.
“
cheerful music for dope smokers
”: Ward,
Rock of Ages,
p. 330.
the Beatles’ “playground
”: “They loved the whole process of recording: the studio was a playground.” Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 68.
“
every trick brought out
”: George Martin in
Anthology,
p. 242.
“
because he wanted to sound like Elvis
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 53.
“
dry, deadpan voice
”: Ibid., p. 55.
“
I noticed two stories
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 155.
“
The verse about the politician
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 324.
“
funny… little references
”:
George Martin in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 241.
“
a little party piece
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 247.
“
It was a crazy song
”: Ibid.
“
We’ll tell the orchestra
”: Ibid.
“
something really tumultuous
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 53.
“
But ninety musicians
”: Ibid., p. 56.
“
with little or no input
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 310.
the theme of which John pinched
: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 155.
“
The top was all dark
”: Julian Lennon in Pritchard & Lysaght,
The Beatles,
p. 238.
“
Wow, fantastic title!
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 311.
“
very trippy
”: Ibid., p. 312.
John had already begun playing
: “The imagery was Alice in the boat.” Sheff,
Playboy Interviews, p.
154
.
“
swapping psychedelic suggestions
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 242.
“
trading words off each other
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 312.
“
People were running around
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 58.
“
orchestral orgasm
”: Ibid., p. 60.
“
It was… remarkable
”: Author interview with Ron Richards, 12/29/97.
“
I just can’t believe it
”: Lewisohn,
Sessions,
p. 96.
“
a gigantic piano chord
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 61.
Daniel Barenboim’s piano
: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 321.
It took nine attempts
: Lewisohn,
Sessions,
p. 99.
Newsweek
’s critic
: Jack Kroll, “The Beatles’
Waste Land,” Newsweek.
“
got mixed together
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 247.
“
very productive period
”:
Mojo,
11/95, p. 84.
“
assembly[-line] process
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 242.
“
I was in a real big depression
”: Interview with Barry Miles.
Food no longer interested him
: “John said he wasn’t eating much and was on a vegetarian diet.” Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 334.
“
it was becoming almost impossible
”: C. Lennon,
A Twist,
p. 142.
“
tensions, bigotry, and bad temper
”: Ibid.
“
I know Brian was convinced
”: Author interview with Tony Barrow, 10/31/97.
gone broke in the process
: “Here was a man who had been bankrupt twice.” Author interview with Nat Weiss, 1/28/98.
“
borrowed money from EMI
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/9/97.
“
It was quite simple
”: Robert Stigwood,
Arena
archives.
“
sound younger… and be a teenager
”: Martin,
Summer of Love,
p. 35.
“
joining up
”: “Once, he told me he thought of joining up. But I’m sure it was another boyhood thing.” Author interview with Pete Shotton, 7/16/98.
“
It said the Hendersons
”: John Lennon, 1967 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 243.