Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - the Definitive Life
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1. Ryan’s wife had died of cancer. Now largely forgotten, Ryan epitomized the stony male reserve through characters like Deke Thornton in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch; a Hollywood staple in his time, he shared a sensibility with leading men like Robert Mitchum and Sterling Hayden.
2. Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 706. Norman drapes the Dakota in faded chic: “Once the acme of luxury, the Dakota was no longer in Manhattan’s premier real-estate league and had become the haunt of middle-range actors, film directors, and similar bohemian types.”
3. Badman, The Dream Is Over, 101.
4. Bangs and Marcus, 214.
5. Chris Charlesworth, Mind Games review, Melody Maker, November 3, 1973, 37.
6. Badman, The Dream Is Over, 117.
7. Ibid, 98.
8. Badman, After the Break-Up, 95–96.
9. Ibid, 94.
10. Coleman, 489.
11. Author interview with Jack Douglas, August 2008.
12. Author interview with Bob Gruen, August 2008.
13. Ibid.
14. New York Times, September 30, 1973.
15. Ibid.
16. Mark Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector, Rock & Roll’s Legendary Producer (New York: Dutton, 1989), 266.
17. Author interview with Dan Kessel, June 2007.
18. Ribowsky, 268.
19. Author interview with Dan Kessel.
20. Nicholas Schaffner, The Beatles Forever, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978, 161.
21. Ribowsky, 259.
22. “Random Notes,” Rolling Stone, Issue 154, February 14, 1974, 24.
23. All Jack Douglas quotes from author interviews, 2008.
24. Badman, The Dream Is Over, 127.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid, 128–29.
27. Ibid.
28. All quotes, CLJ, 255.
29. Author interview with Bob Gruen, 2008.
30. Ben Gerson, “Together Again: Walls and Bridges,” Rolling Stone, November 21, 1974, 44–46.
31. Author interview with Bob Gruen, 2008.
32. PB, 46.
Chapter 23: Get Back
1. One of the great late themes of Lennon’s development is his immersion in blues forms, beginning with “Yer Blues,” “Come Together,” and “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” and progressing through “Well Well Well,” “It’s So Hard,” and “I’m Losing You.”
2. Of the four, Ringo Starr refused to take himself seriously and wound up singing “Yellow Submarine” and “With a Little Help from My Friends” at summer shows for the rest of his days. He remains the band’s most underrated musician.
3. Lisa Robinson, Hit Parader, December 1975, http://beatlesinterviews.org/db1975.1200.beatles.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Jerry Hopkins, Yoko Ono (New York: Macmillan, 1986), 124.
6. Fawcett, 139.
7. Jon Landau, “Lennon Gets Lost in His Rock ’n’ Roll,” Rolling Stone, May 22, 1975, 66.
8. In the continuing song volley between ex-collaborators, McCartney closed side one of Band on the Run with “Let Me Roll It,” which had the uncanny air of a Plastic Ono Band outtake. Turns out McCartney impersonated Lennon far better than the other way around (“One Day at a Time”). At least until “Beautiful Boy.”
9. Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon in America (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), 71. “Fame” provides the model for the James Brown track “Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved).”
10. Badman, After the Break-Up, 153.
11. Ibid, 160.
12. Author interview with Larry Kane, August 2007.
13. PB, 74.
14. Ibid, 73.
15. Ibid, 75.
16. Badman, The Dream Is Over, 169–70.
17. Author interview with Bob Gruen, 2008.
18. Elliot Mintz, in Yoko Ono’s Memories of John Lennon, 170.
19. PB, 75.
Chapter 24: Three of Us
1. CLJ, 256. Robert Christgau also makes this connection in a 1983 review of May Pang’s Loving John, http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/rockbios-83.php.
2. All Bob Gruen quotes from author interview, September 2008.
3. DCH, 10.
4. Badman, After the Break-Up, 181–82.
5. Ibid. Later that fall, when Monty Python’s Eric Idle hosted the show, Michaels returned to the gag to introduce Idle’s short film, The Rutles, which became All You Need Is Cash.
6. Ibid, 182.
7. The Saturday Night Live story turned into a 2000 Michael Lindsay-Hogg made-for-TV movie called Two of Us, much distorted in Mark Stanfield’s script.
8. BJY, 165.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid, 141.
11. Ibid, 166.
12. Dorothy Hansen, ed., The Art of John Lennon: Drawings, Performances, Films (Cantz Verlag, 1995). One of the entries in the closing Biographical Notes sounds like it was dictated directly from Ono: “17 November 1980—Lennon and Ono’s joint album Double Fantasy is released to unprecedented critical acclaim for Yoko Ono: she is applauded for contributing the best tracks.”
13. Starr, 82.
14. SS, 190–200. Shotton’s memoirs are riddled with calendar errors, but he describes Lennon carrying Sean as an infant, and the Sally Field TV movie Sybil dates the visit to 1976.
15. Ibid, 200.
16. BJY, 173.
17. Yoko Ono, Lennon: His Life and Work (Cleveland: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2000).
18. Starr, 85.
19. Yoko Ono, Memories of John Lennon, 167–69.
20. Dave Marsh, “An Open Letter to John Lennon,” Rolling Stone, November 3, 1977, 50.
21. “A Love Letter From John and Yoko: To People Who Ask Us What, When, and Why,” New York Times, Sunday, May 27, 1979, 20E.
22. Dave Marsh, “Another Open Letter to John Lennon,” Rolling Stone, August 23, 1979, 28.
23. Norman, Lennon, 788. In addition, Lennon never mentions his reaction to Paul McCartney’s Japanese marijuana bust in January, 1980.
24. PB, 92–93.
25. All Jack Douglas quotes come from author interview, August 2008.
26. All Bun E. Carlos quotes from author interview, July 2008.
27. David Geffen, “A Reminiscence,” Rolling Stone, Issue 335, January 22, 1981, 59.
28. Ibid, 61.
29. Robert Palmer, Blues and Chaos (New York: Scribner, 2009), 251.
30. Geoffrey Stokes, “The Infantalization of John Lennon,” Village Voice, January 7, 1981, 31.
31. Charles Shaar Murray, in Sutherland, 132.
32. Author interview with Andy Peebles, London, 1985.
33. Annie Leibovitz, Rolling Stone, Issue 335, January 22, 1981, 61.
34. David Geffen, “A Reminiscence,” Rolling Stone, Issue 335, Jan. 22, 1981, 59.
35. Ibid.
36. Yoko Ono, quoted in New York Times, December 10, 1980, 1.
37. BJY, 203.
38. Ibid.
Epilogue
1. Author interview with Elliot Mintz, September 2008.
2. JLE, 587.
3. BJY, 205.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid, 207.
6. Badman, After the Break-Up, 276.
7. “Silent Tribute to Lennon’s Memory is Observed Throughout the World,” New York Times, December 15, 1980, 1.
8. Ibid.
9. Jonathan Schell, “Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, December 22, 1980.
10. BJY, 61.
11. Author interview with Bob Gruen, August 2008.
12. BJY, 291.
13. All Jack Douglas quotes from author interview, September 2008.
14. Harrison had actually started the song before Lennon’s death and reworked the lyrics once he decided to issue it as a tribute record. He fought off a knife attack by his own delusional fan in his Friar Park home in late 1999.
15. Mikal Gilmore, “The Mystery of John Lennon,” Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents (New York: Free Press, 2008), 158.
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16. Anthony Elliott, The Mourning of John Lennon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 6.
Index
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Abbey Road, 283, 370, 397, 434, 450, 453, 458–60, 462–63, 465, 466, 478–79, 491, 493, 495, 496, 526
album cover of, 459–60, 478
“Across the Universe,” 377, 495, 601–2
Adler, Lou, 576
“Ain’t She Sweet,” 125
Alexander, Arthur, 194, 243, 599
Alfie, 285
Ali, Muhammad, 246–47, 297
Ali, Tariq, 375, 376, 515–18
All Things Must Pass, 480, 482, 524
“All Those Years Ago,” 653
“All You Need Is Love,” 368, 371, 376, 421, 531, 537, 649
Animal House, 293
Anthology series, see Beatles Anthology, The
Apple, x, 341, 359, 384–85, 404–5, 406, 408, 411, 412, 420, 427, 433, 439–42, 450–51, 452, 462–63, 464, 483, 486, 488, 518, 548–49, 572, 613
Klein and, 433, 439–42, 450–51, 464, 469, 486, 487, 512, 513, 519–22, 559–60, 564, 566, 595
logo of, xiii, 410–11
McCartney and, 384–85, 441, 464–65, 512, 513–15, 519–22, 560, 595
Approximately Infinite Universe, 538, 553, 590, 653
Asher, Jane, 73, 284, 301, 334–35, 347, 364, 398, 402
Asher, Peter, 399, 404, 486
Ashton, David, 32–33
Aspinall, Neil, 127, 177, 180, 184, 240, 256, 311, 321, 385, 397, 399, 400, 431, 434–35
Associated Television Ventures (ATV), 447–48, 464, 603
Attica State Prison, 534–35, 546, 547
Avengers, The, 286
Bach, Barbara, 644
Backbeat, 115, 165
Bag Productions Ltd., 452
Baird, Julia Dykins, 14, 24, 29, 47, 48, 50, 56–57, 59, 60, 186, 624, 658
Julia’s death and, 82–83, 84
Baker, Barbara, 31
“Ballad of John and Yoko, The,” 449–50, 456, 646
Ballard, Arthur, 86, 87
Bancroft, Robert, 32–33
Band on the Run, 476, 601, 602
Bangladesh, Concert for, 524–26, 536, 560, 564
Bangs, Lester, 250, 561, 565
Barber, Chris, 45, 46, 359
Barrow, Tony, 155, 259, 260
BBC, 43, 44, 45, 77, 149, 162, 168, 173, 174, 180, 195, 198, 203, 213, 220, 247, 253, 286, 311, 344, 350, 369, 376, 377, 445, 597–600, 637–38
Beach Boys, 265, 266, 267, 294, 311, 347, 380, 381
Beatlemania, 122, 181, 198–201, 217, 220, 228, 232, 235–38, 244–45, 254–55, 260–61, 289, 291, 294, 298, 300, 317–19, 370, 417
Beatles:
American arrival of, 228–31, 232–47
Best dismissed from, 183–86, 188
breakup of, xi, 322, 333, 398, 452, 458, 463–64, 469, 475–79, 483, 488–91, 493, 494, 519–20, 561, 659
Candlestick Park show of, 318–19
death threats made against, 312–13, 315, 317, 330, 649
drugs used by, 104–5, 108, 117, 272–73, 288–89, 443
on Ed Sullivan Show, 222, 228, 229–30, 236, 237, 238, 240, 241–43, 245, 246, 254, 279, 280, 319, 357, 597
Epstein becomes manager, 145–46, 148
first recording sessions of, 124–25, 128, 167–68, 173–75,
first songs of, 72
Grammy Awards won by, 276, 602
haircuts and suits of, 113, 114, 149, 152–53, 180, 212, 285, 293
in Hamburg, 97–98, 104–21, 124, 125, 127, 130–32, 152, 153, 156, 157, 162–63, 176, 192–95, 201, 229
in India, 366–67, 377–84
influence of, 265–68, 292, 474, 476
interviews with, 220–21, 269, 292
islands bought by, 359
Lennon’s withdrawal from, 333, 370, 397, 430, 458, 463–64, 469, 475–77, 483, 489, 490
Liverpool gigs of, 121–23, 127–30, 132, 135, 153, 179–81, 211, 217
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and, 272, 360–67, 380–85
MBEs awarded to, 278, 280–81, 302, 313, 462, 479, 566
naming of, 96–98
publishing arrangements and catalog of, xii, 191, 201, 275, 360, 447–48, 464–65, 476, 483
reissues and compilations, 276, 564
remastered catalog of, xi–xii, xiii–xiv
retirement from touring, 284, 318–19, 320–21, 332, 335–36
reunion rumors, xi, 539, 560–61, 564–67, 612–13, 627
in Scotland, 96–97, 201, 202, 253
second U.S. tour of, 268, 269, 279–80
semi-reunions of, 482
singles charts topped by, 252–53
Sutcliffe’s leaving of, 126, 130–32
television appearances of, 202, 203, 220–21, 223, 224–26, 228, 236, 240–43, 245–47, 253, 254, 260, 279, 280, 319, 357, 358–59, 411, 412
Beatles, The: The First U.S. Visit, 233
Beatles and Co., 346–47, 595
Beatles Anthology, The, x, xi, 79, 81, 108, 119, 183, 224, 226, 274, 281, 358, 382, 452, 488, 597, 599, 657, 660
Beatles at the Beeb, The, 597
Beatles for Sale, 254, 268, 276, 278, 282, 286
Beatles VI, 276
Beatty, Don, 50
Beaucoups of Blues, 480
Beecher, John, 70
Bennett, Estelle, 226, 227, 234
Benson, Harry, 234, 246
Bentine, Michael, 86, 171
Berlin, Isaiah, 4
Berns, Bert, 207, 208, 282
Bernstein, Sid, 269, 279
Berry, Chuck, 50, 68, 70, 94, 129, 137, 221, 267, 461
Beatles and, 79, 106, 109, 135–37, 159, 189, 193–95, 206, 222, 224, 231, 238, 242–44, 255, 260, 317, 585, 599–600
JL and, 67, 159, 329, 347, 454, 462, 543, 574, 596, 598
Levy suit and, 585, 595, 613–14
Best, Joe, 78
Best, Mona, 78, 184
Best, Pete, 78, 98, 122–25, 127, 146, 159, 167, 179, 181, 193, 361
dismissed from Beatles, 183–86, 188
in Hamburg, 106, 109–11, 114, 116–21, 162, 164
Best, Rory, 78
Billboard, 252–53, 276, 651
Black Jacks, 60
Blackpool, 18–20, 22, 23, 24, 164, 252, 289, 401, 502, 661
Blair, Tony, 656
Blake, Peter, xiii, 36, 346, 391
Blow-Up, 285
Boast, Bob, 161
Bolt, Fred, 31
Boone, Pat, 49
Bowie, David, 474, 601–2, 656
Boyd, Joe, 429
Boyd, Pattie, 253, 272–73, 284, 310–11, 348, 360, 379, 414, 443, 655
Brambell, Wilfrid, 248, 250
Bramwell, Tony, 44, 71, 118, 122–23, 187, 341, 344, 347, 348–49, 367, 407
Branch, Taylor, 372–73
Braun, Michael, 199, 237, 239, 248–50, 261, 479
Brodax, Al, 336
Bron, Eleanor, 271
Brower, John, 460–61, 487
Brown, Ken, 78–79
Brown, Peter, 148, 364, 396, 400, 444, 447, 457, 465
Browne, Tara, 340
Bush, George W., 425, 656
Byrne, Johnny, 80
Cadbury, Peter, 453
Caen, Herb, 36
Cage, John, 323, 390–94, 416, 579
Cale, John, 299
“Can’t Buy Me Love,” 252
Capitol Records, ix, 228, 229, 232, 236, 252–53, 276, 307, 315, 328, 497, 560, 572, 581, 590, 599, 613
Capp, Al, 455–56
Carlos, Bun E., 630–33, 654
Carney, Ray, 37
“Carry That Weight,” 398–99, 458, 459, 479, 495
Carter, Jimmy, 620
Casey, Howie, 97, 106, 107
Cash, Rosanne, 655
Cavern Club, 73, 92, 119, 127–29, 132–33, 135, 141–45, 150�
�52, 155, 157, 160, 161, 177, 179–81, 186, 190–93, 203–5, 211, 217, 222, 514, 645
Cavett, Dick, 527–29, 534, 540, 551, 568
Cellarful of Noise, A (Epstein), 141
Chandler, Chas, 338
Charlesworth, Chris, 563
Cheap Trick, 629–32, 654
Checker, Chubby, 207, 209, 440
Chicago Seven, 492, 528, 537–38, 542, 545
Choba b CCCP, 598
Christgau, Robert, 351, 505, 651–52
Churchill, Winston, 4, 11, 413, 452, 468, 469, 504
Cirque du Soleil, xi, 660
Civil, Alan, 302–3
Clapton, Eric, 67, 107, 338, 408–9, 425, 432, 433, 461, 463, 466–67, 482, 525
Clark, Dick, 341
Clayson, Alan, 46, 95
Cleave, Maureen, 290–91, 292, 306, 321
Cochran, Eddie, x, 62, 70, 95–96, 135, 136, 189, 217, 414, 593, 598
Coe, Melanie, 346
Cohn, Nik, 364
“Cold Turkey,” 355, 461–62, 463, 467, 474–76, 479, 481, 484, 485, 489, 492, 501, 502, 631, 655
Coleman, David, 247
Coleman, Ray, 88, 148, 281, 433
Coleman, Sid, 161, 174
“Come Together,” 459, 460, 466, 473, 478, 556, 585, 613
Complete BBC Sessions, The, 597
Condon, Terry, 311
Connolly, Ray, 489, 490, 526
Cook, Peter, 263–64
Cooke, Sam, 440, 599, 601
Cooper, Michael, 346
Cosell, Howard, 642
Cott, Jonathan, 414, 423, 425, 637
Cox, Anthony, 323, 348, 349, 387, 393, 418, 422, 446, 484, 499, 565
Cox, Kyoko Chan, 323, 387, 393, 418, 422, 446, 457, 484, 499, 540, 565, 575
Crawdaddy, 548
Creem, 506, 554
Crenshaw, Marshall, 246
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, 492–93
Cullen, Peter, 640
Daddy Come Home (Lennon), xiii, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Daily Express, 376–77, 466
Daily Howl, 34, 134
Daily Mail, 339, 340, 341, 346, 378, 431, 489
Daily Mirror, 218–19, 277, 419
Dakota, The, 559, 570, 638–39, 644–45, 650
Darin, Bobby, 440
Davies, Hunter, 76, 87, 88, 148, 345, 432
Davis, Doreen, 637
Davis, Jesse Ed, 117
Davis, Rod, 31, 39, 40, 41, 47, 59, 61, 62
“Day in the Life, A,” 295, 329, 332, 339–43, 346, 353–57, 370, 377, 436, 503, 520, 533, 561, 592
Day John Met Paul, The (O’Donnell), 60–61
Dean, John, 549–50
“Dear Prudence,” 381, 410, 654