by Tim Riley
Ray, Johnnie, 50–51
Reagan, Ronald, 425, 492, 637, 646, 651
Redding, Noel, 556
Redgrave, Vanessa, 375
Red Mole, 515–18
Rees-Mogg, William, 348
“Revolution,” x, 376, 403, 404–6, 408, 410, 412–17, 423–26, 428–30, 473, 482, 485, 503, 504, 506, 515, 517, 518, 524, 528, 545
Revolver, 266, 288–92, 301–3, 307–12, 316, 318, 320, 328, 331–32, 336, 351–52, 354, 356, 370, 430, 474
Ribowsky, Mark, 572
Richard, Cliff, 69, 76, 125, 178, 196, 237
Richards, Keith, 221, 226, 266, 293, 303, 334, 342, 347–48, 419–20, 425, 656
Richards, Ron, 177
Rickles, Don, 247, 272–73
Ringo, 482, 572, 574
Rivera, Geraldo, 555, 614
Rizzo, Frank, 604
RKO Radio, 637, 639
Roberts, Chris, 240
Robbins, Bett, 64
Robinson, Lisa, 593–94
Robinson, Richard, 466
Rock ’n’ Roll, 474, 561, 572–73, 577, 579–82, 585–86, 590, 595–602, 614
Rock and Roll Circus, 425
Rock ’n’ Roll Music, 599
Rockefeller, Nelson, 534–35
Rolling Stone, 322, 414, 423, 454–55, 487, 509–12, 515, 516, 517, 522, 532, 561, 577, 584–85, 591, 592, 600, 605, 614, 620, 626–27, 635, 637, 638, 643, 655
Leibovitz’s cover photo for, 638–39, 650–51
Rolling Stones, 160, 212, 221–22, 226, 265–67, 282, 285, 286, 292–93, 296, 300, 308, 311, 319, 347–48, 358, 375–76, 419, 423, 440, 458, 487, 562
Ronettes, 226–27, 234, 257, 574, 599
Roots, 586, 595, 613–14
Rosenblatt, Eddi, 641
Rossington, Norman, 264
Rowe, Dick, 155, 156, 160, 161
Rubber Soul, 266, 268, 281–87, 298–99, 301–3, 307, 316, 351–52, 370, 474
Rubin, Jerry, 372, 423, 492, 535, 536, 537–38, 542, 544–46, 548, 557, 569
Run Devil Run, 598
St. Peter’s Church, 31, 33, 35, 40, 60, 66, 67
Saisho Atsushi, 388
Sargent, Bill, 612
Saturday Evening Post, 380
Saturday Night Live, 612–13
Sauceda, James, 262–63
Savage, Jon, 534
Schaffner, Nicholas, 31–32
Scheff, David, 628, 635
Schell, Jonathan, 591, 649
Schwartz, Francie, 398
Scotland, 96–97, 201, 202, 253, 623
Scott, Ken, 407, 442
Seale, Bobby, 537–38, 542, 545
Seaman, Fred, 653
Self-Portrait, 462
Sellers, Peter, 86, 170, 171, 174, 248, 275–76, 427, 432, 465
Sentimental Journey, 480
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, xiii, 166, 266, 300, 305, 329, 331–33, 336–46, 348–58, 360, 364, 369, 370, 371, 396, 407, 411, 412, 421, 428, 429, 430, 474
cover design for, 346, 351, 352, 460, 504
Shankar, Ravi, 321, 404, 524
Shannon, Del, 142, 196, 211–12, 347
Shapiro, Helen, 203–4, 209–10
Shaved Fish, 474, 590, 601
Shearing, George, 110–11, 240
“She Loves You,” 220, 229, 239, 242–43, 244, 252, 274, 371, 403, 473
Shenson, Walter, 248
Sheridan, Tony, 107, 109, 119, 124, 125, 128, 130, 141, 142, 154, 155, 180, 253, 607
“She’s Leaving Home,” 343–44, 346, 354
Short, Don, 419
Shotton, Bessie, 60
Shotton, Pete, xiii, 31–32, 35–36, 37, 39, 43, 48, 49, 58, 71, 215, 216, 385–86
JL visited by, 616–17
in Quarrymen, 59, 60, 62
Silver, Charles, 465
Simcox, Tom, 383, 401
Simon, Paul, 602
Sinclair, John, 545–46
Skinner, John, 311
Skywriting by Word of Mouth (Lennon), 615
Smith, Alan, 190, 526
Smith, Bill, 59
Smith, George, 13, 29–30, 47–49, 59, 84, 139, 164, 166, 289, 340
Smith, Howard, 506, 522
Smith, Mary Stanley “Mimi” (aunt), 5, 121, 164, 181–82, 263, 277, 346, 368, 462, 502, 518, 569, 610–11, 615, 659
Cynthia Lennon and, 87–88, 89, 181–83, 186, 188, 212
Epstein and, 148, 149
JL’s death and, 645–46
JL’s early life and, xiii, 11–13, 15–21, 23, 24, 26–30, 34–35, 37, 40, 43, 44, 47–49, 54–56, 58–59, 61–62, 66–67, 82, 85, 89, 326
Julia’s death and, 83, 84, 86, 89
Ono and, 610–11
Smith, Mike, 151, 155–56, 192
Smith, Norman, 177–79, 205, 303, 342
Smothers Brothers, 577–78
Snyder, Tom, 603
Softley, Iain, 115
Some Time in New York City, 474, 542, 553–55, 589
Spacek, Sissy, 421
Spaniard in the Works, A (Lennon), 276–78
Spector, Phil, 68, 207, 226, 234–35, 258, 266, 274, 300–301, 311, 535, 564, 570, 574–75, 592, 597, 599
JL’s work with, 480–81, 485–86, 500, 519, 536–37, 552, 572–75, 578–79, 581, 585, 586, 596, 600
Let It Be and, 487–89, 494–96, 527, 600
Spector, Ronnie (Veronica Bennett), 226–28, 234–35, 257–59, 324, 572, 575
Spinetti, Victor, 250, 251, 271, 272, 399, 404
Spiro, Steve, 640
Spitz, Bob, 107
Splinter, Neil, 564
Springsteen, Bruce, 295, 619, 646–47
Stamp, Justice, 515, 521
“Stand By Me,” 601
Stanley, Anne (aunt), 5
Stanley, Annie Jane Milward (grandmother), 4–5, 10, 12
Stanley, Elizabeth (aunt), see Sutherland, Elizabeth Stanley
Stanley, George (grandfather), 4–5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15–16, 17
Stanley, Harriet (aunt), 5, 28, 153
Stanley, Mary “Mimi” (aunt), see Smith, Mary Stanley “Mimi”
Stanley, William Henry (great-grandfather), 4
Starr, Maureen Cox, 269–70, 321
Starr, Ringo, xii, 27, 95, 118–19, 159, 188–90, 193, 194, 217, 233, 239, 240, 254, 271, 273, 289, 318, 321, 334, 339, 347, 365, 385, 404, 450, 465, 478, 482, 506, 520, 535, 560, 564–65, 579, 615, 618, 636, 653, 659
in America, 238, 245–46, 247
Bangladesh concert and, 525
Beatles breakup and, 477, 479, 488–89, 490
Cynthia Lennon and, 402
in Hard Day’s Night, 249, 250
in India, 382, 383
JL’s death and, 644
JL’s solo work and, 481, 500, 505
joins Beatles, 183–86, 188
Klein and, 559, 560
Let It Be and, 438, 494
in Magic Christian, 427, 428, 442
marriage of, 269–70
Presley and, 51
solo work of, 479–80, 482–83, 519, 526, 551, 554, 572, 574, 620, 636
songs of, 270, 274, 281, 282, 299, 345
Tittenhurst purchased by, 567
walkout of, x, 409–10, 411, 427, 431
Starr, Zak, 270, 321
Steele, Tommy, 69, 96, 172
Stigwood, Robert, 332–33, 336, 360, 362
Stokes, Geoffrey, 636, 651
Stoned (Oldham), 155
Storm, Rory, 95, 108, 112, 118, 119, 124, 129, 183, 185
Strach, Walter, 270, 346
Strawberry Field (children’s home), 27, 35, 325, 326, 353, 659
Strawberry Fields (memorial), 650
“Strawberry Fields Forever,” xiii, 321–22, 304, 324, 325–29, 335, 337, 340, 341, 353, 355, 358, 368, 369, 408, 417, 430, 473, 474, 501, 655
Sullivan, Ed, 228, 229–30, 232, 237, 241, 540
Sutcliffe, Charles Ferguson, 74–75
Sutcliffe, Martha Cronin “Millie,” 74–75
Sutcliffe, Millie, 164, 165
; Sutcliffe, Pauline, 75–76, 89, 92–93, 95, 112, 115, 130, 131–32, 150, 165, 216
Sutcliffe, Stuart, xiii, 74–76, 85, 86, 87, 89, 91–93, 95, 96, 121–24, 128, 130, 131, 139, 150, 152, 153, 162, 216, 218, 323, 352
Beatles left by, 126, 130–32
in Hamburg, 98, 109, 112, 116–21, 130–32
illness and death of, 162–66, 175, 176, 179, 289
Kirchherr’s relationship with, 113, 114, 121, 123, 126, 128, 130, 131, 162–65
McCartney and, 117
musicianship of, 92, 117, 130
Sutherland, Bertie, 28–29
Sutherland, Elizabeth Stanley (aunt), 5, 28–29, 457–58, 622–23
Suzuki, Shinichi, 391
Sytner, Alan, 73, 127
Tarbuck, Jimmy, 30–31
Taylor, Alistair, 141–43, 145–49, 156, 175, 215, 216, 333, 347, 363, 486
Taylor, Derek, 141, 255, 256, 257, 311, 378, 385, 456, 486, 489, 574
Taylor, E. R., 38
Taylor, Mick, 458
Taylor, Ted “Kingsize,” 192–93
“That Means a Lot,” 274–75, 327
There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Doggett), 535, 550
Thielemans, Jean “Toots,” 110–11, 240
“This Bird Has Flown,” 268–69, 280
Thomas, Chris, 405, 411–12, 414, 415, 488
Thurmond, Strom, 550
“Till There Was You,” 194, 241, 242, 248
Times (London), 348, 351, 503
Tomorrow, 603
“Tomorrow Never Knows,” xiii, 303, 304, 333, 338, 366, 371, 417, 430, 473, 503
Topper, Ron, 315
Toshi, Ichiyanagi, 390
Townsend, Ken, 177, 305–6
Trudeau, Pierre, 467
Turner, Bill, 35–36, 38
Turner, Steve, 524
Twiggy, 284–85
“Twist and Shout,” 206–9, 223–24, 240, 242, 252, 282, 646
Two Virgins, 399
Uncut, 554
Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, ix–x, 420–21, 423, 425, 443, 449, 456, 497, 518, 600, 651, 657
Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions, 419, 443, 600
Unwin, Stanley, 135
Van Scyoc, Gary, 538–40, 552–53, 556
Vaughan, Ivan, 31, 32, 35–36, 59, 61, 62
Velvet Underground, 299
Venus and Mars, 601
Vietnam War, 132, 247, 255–56, 300, 370, 372–76, 424, 425, 445, 492–93, 523–24, 532, 535, 581
Village Voice, 505, 522, 528, 636, 651
Vincent, Gene, 70, 95, 96, 105, 125, 135, 137, 152, 164, 189, 203, 217, 414, 461, 596, 599
Vipers, 172, 174
Vollmer, Jürgen, 112, 115, 153, 586
Voormann, Klaus, 112–15, 273, 323, 341, 352, 461, 463, 467, 481, 506, 518, 519, 525, 536
Vreeland, Diana, 284
“Walking on Thin Ice,” 638–40
Walley, Nigel, 16, 31, 32, 67, 82–83, 84, 263
in Quarrymen, 59, 73
Walls and Bridges, 474, 482, 561, 581–85, 590, 596
Ward, John, 556
Warhol, Andy, xiii, 295, 299, 324, 351, 391. 392, 462
Wedding Album, 451, 600
Wenner, Jann, 322, 489, 493, 509–12, 516, 620
“Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” 582, 584, 587, 590, 601
Whitaker, Robert, 307, 315
White, Alan, 461, 482, 485, 518, 519, 522
White, Andy, 188–89
White Album, The, ix, 370, 423–24, 428, 429, 459, 463, 474, 478, 482, 496, 574, 625
Esher Demos, 399–400, 403, 630
mastering and packaging of, xiii, 166, 415–17, 516
recording of, x, 403–15
Wigg, David, 445
Wildes, Leon, 559, 565, 575–76, 593, 603, 604, 614
Wiles, Daniel, 425
Williams, Allan, 76, 95–98, 104, 105, 107, 118–21, 145, 150, 156, 192–93
Williams, Larry, 136, 279, 598
Williams, Paul, 637
Williams, Richard, 481, 485, 486, 535–36
Williamson, Allan, 91
Willowbrook State School, 555, 614
Wilson, Brian, 283, 311, 371, 380
Wilson, Harold, 75, 277, 281, 468, 469
Wings, 551, 595, 613, 619
Wise, Ernie, 224–26
“Within You Without You,” 356
Wolfe, Tom, 319–20, 517
Wonder, Stevie, 483, 545, 555
Wonderful Tonight (Boyd), 273, 655
Wooler, Bob, 92, 121, 122, 127, 135, 141, 142, 144, 148, 153, 155, 157, 160–61, 185, 211, 218–19
Woolton, 26, 27, 35–36, 90
“Working Class Hero,” 25–26, 90, 502–3, 528, 549, 590
World War II, 3–4, 10–13, 19, 42–43, 103, 389–91
Yasuda Zenjiro, 388, 393
Yasuda Zenzaburo, 388
Yellow Submarine, 350, 376, 377, 406
“Yesterday,” 234, 248, 278–79, 281, 282, 286, 298, 302, 344, 403, 530, 532, 656–57
Yesterday and Today, 307–8, 315–16
Yippies, 372, 492, 537–38
Yorke, Ritchie, 454–55, 487
“You Know My Name (Look Up the Number),” 350, 357, 453
“You Won’t See Me,” 283–84
Yule, Fred, 40
Zappa, Frank, 522–23, 553, 589
Photo Credits
Photo Section 1
Photo 1: Dave Trimble/LFI; Photo 2: Mark and Coillen Hayward/Getty Images; Photo 3: Mercury Press Agency/Rex USA; Photo 4: Rex USA; Photo 5: Mark and Coillen Hayward; Photo 6: James Davis/Rod Davis; Photo 7: Geoff Rhind/LFI; Photo 8: Leslie Kearney/Mark Lewisohn Collection; Photo 9: Sam Leach/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Photo 10: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images; Photo 11: Orbital Media/ LFI; Photo 12: Astrid Kirchherr/Retna; Photo 13: Astrid Kirchherr/Redferns/Retna; Photo 14: Astrid Kirchherr/Retna; Photo 15: Peter Bruchmann/K&K Ulf Kruger OHG/Getty Images; Photo 16: Astrid Kirchherr/Getty Images; Photo 17: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images.
Photo Section 2
Photo 1: Frank Apthorp/Daily Mail/Rex USA; Photo 2: Mirrorpix; Photo 3: John Pratt/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Photo 4: Bettmann/Corbis; Photo 5: Frank Hermann/Camera Press/Retna; Photo 6: Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Photo 7: Linda McCartney; Photo 8: Mirrorpix; Photo 9: David Nutter/Camera Press/Retba; Photo 10: Bettmann/Corbis; Photo 11: Ron Howard/Redferns/Getty Images; Photo 12: Tom Hanley/Redferns/Getty Images; Photo 13: Bob Gruen.
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About the Author
NPR critic TIM RILEY has authored four previous books about popular music, including the influential Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary. He reviews pop and classical music for WBUR-FM’s Here and Now, and has written for The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Huffington Post, and many other publications. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Millennium Pop, an early Web journal devoted to serious commentary about popular culture. Trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman, he lectures widely on censorship and the arts, rock history, the British Invasion, and rock criticism. Online, Riley edits the music metaportal the rileyrockindex.com, and blogs at artsjournal.com/riley. He is a professor of journalism at Emerson College in Boston and lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.
ALSO BY TIM RILEY
Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary
Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary
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