The opening barrelhouse piano
: “I asked him if it was from ‘Bad Penny Blues,’ and he said it was based [on that].” Author interview with Ray Connolly, 8/17/97.

“
[The song] reminded me
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 449.

“
I think… we were all
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 281.

“
I was gonna take her
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
John Lennon: For the Record,
p. 55.

“
barracks
”: “It was cold and wet, and the complex… resembled a barracks.”
Hello!,
5/28/94.

nominal rate of $400
: “Beatles’ Guru Is Turning Them into Gurus,”
New York Times,
2/23/68.

“
We were really getting away
”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 281.

“
There [was] quite a heavy flow
”: George Harrison in ibid.

“
It was a collision
”: Farrow,
What Falls Away,
p. 132.

Meditation… should last for
:
Melody Maker,
3/9/68.

“
Nevertheless,” she later wrote
: Farrow,
What Falls Away,
p. 137.

“
I was meditating about eight hours
”: John Lennon, 1974 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 283.

“
To John, nothing else mattered
”: C. Lennon,
A Twist,
p. 155.

“
It was pretty exciting
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 281.

“
It was quite nice
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 413.

“
It was almost magical
”: Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 283.

“
like a feather over
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 414.

“
Regardless of what
”: John Lennon, 1971 interview, in
Anthology,
p. 283.

an homage to his boyhood idol
: “ ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ was my take-off of Chuck Berry’s ‘Back in the USA.’ ” Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 422.

There, in a series of dilapidated tents
:
Hello!,
5/28/94.

“
Every time we met
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 419.

“
to go shoot a few poor tigers
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 168.

“
Prudence meditated and hibernated
”: Ringo Starr in
Anthology,
p. 284.

“
She went completely mental
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 168.

George and John had been selected
: Farrow,
What Falls Away,
p. 139.

“
got her out of the house
”: Sheff,
Playboy Interviews,
p. 168.

using a finger-picking technique
: “I introduced John to a finger-picking style…. With this style he wrote ‘Julia’ and ‘Dear Prudence.’ ” Donovan in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 341.

“Umbrella”
:
Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 421.

“
We’re not fucking here
”: Ibid., p. 420.

Besides, Maureen had a phobia
: “He couldn’t stand the food and his wife couldn’t stand the flies.” Paul McCartney in
Anthology,
p. 284.

“
very much like a holiday
”:
Melody Maker,
3/9/68.

“
Paul and Jane were much too sophisticated
”: Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 286.

“
some huge spiritual lift-off
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 409.

“
John took meditation
”: Coleman,
Lennon,
p. 341.

“
Something had gone very wrong
”:
Hello!,
5/28/94.

“
I’m a cloud
”: Fawcett,
John Lennon: One Day at a Time,
p. 33.

John “missed his company
”: “Alex was summoned to Rishikesh by John.” Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 287.

“
because he didn’t approve
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 427.

“
appalled” by the accommodations
: Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 287.

Maharishi
might have
come on to her
: Farrow,
What Falls Away,
p. 141.

“
I think it was completely untrue
”: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 429.

“
to plug into the divine
”: George Harrison in Badman,
Off the Record,
p. 341.

“
When George started thinking
”: Wenner,
Lennon Remembers,
pp. 55–56.

“Wait,”
she recalled
: Miles,
Paul McCartney,
p. 428.

“
John told me he knew
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.

“
If you’re so cosmically conscious
”: Variations of this response have been reported in Wenner,
Lennon Remembers;
Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make;
C. Lennon,
A Twist;
and Jenny Boyd’s account in Miles,
Paul McCartney.

“
You can’t say that
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 286.

an appearance in a documentary
: “30 New Beatle Tracks,”
NME,
4/20/68.

“
But you’ve got to bloody hear it
”: Brown & Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 291. Cynthia confirms this in
Hello!,
5/28/94.

“
I never dreamed
”: C. Lennon,
A Twist,
p. 163.

“
We want to help people
”:
The Tonight Show,
5/15/68.

whose brainstorm produced
: “He came up with the idea for the ad in my house.” Author interview with Alistair Taylor, 1/17/98.

“
Overnight, we were swamped
”:
Ibid.

“
By the time I came back
”: George Harrison in
Anthology,
p. 287.

George… “had very little to do
”: Ibid.

“
I hate it
”: D. Taylor,
Fifty Years,
p. 330.

“
Paul, for the longest time
”: Author interview with Peter Brown, 12/10/97.

“
he’d stay there all day
”: McCabe & Schonfeld,
Apple to the Core,
p. 102.