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by Howard Sounes

  Sales of Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking: Sunday Mirror magazine (14 April 1991).

  On LM’s frozen food: Alastair Cousin, Carla Lane and Mike Robbins (all quoted from author’s interviews).

  Traces of meat found: Linda McCartney (Fields); and LM to OK! (6 March 1998).

  ‘Noratorio’: PM to the Sunday Times (9 June 1991).

  PM meets Michael Portillo MP: Optimistic, Even Then (Featherstone-Witty).

  Oratorio reviewed: Independent on Sunday (20 June 1991).

  Lee Eastman dies: New York Times obituary (2 Aug. 1991) and author’s interview with Philip Sprayregen.

  Rolls Royce gift: PM to Harper’s (Nov. 1984).

  MPL song catalogue: Playboy (Dec. 1984), and Club Sandwich # 80.

  Writes ‘Calico Skies’: Flaming Pie liner notes.

  Mark Featherstone-Witty on John Eastman and PM’s impatience in Nov. 1991: Optimistic, Even Then.

  LIPA fundraising: author’s interview with Mark Featherstone-Witty (quoted); his book Optimistic, Even Then and Club Sandwich # 64.

  The author saw a copy of PM’s correspondence with Prince Charles. Featherstone-Witty says the Prince didn’t donate.

  George Harrison and LIPA: author’s correspondence with Mark Featherstone-Witty.

  Donald Warren-Knott quoted from author’s interview.

  Details of Mark Featherstone-Witty’s relationship with PM, fundraising figures and ‘gay’ conversation with Richard Ogden, are from Optimistic, Even Then and author’s discussions with Richard Ogden and Featherstone-Witty (both quoted).

  Danny Fields quoted from author’s interview.

  Making Off the Ground: author’s interviews with McIntosh (quoted) and Stuart; also Club Sandwich # 64 and 65.

  The Fireman project: author’s interview with Youth (quoted).

  Grundig deal: author’s interview with Mark Featherstone-Witty and Optimistic, Even Then. Also the LIPA ticket and backstage meetings with PM.

  1993 US ticket sales: The Paul McCartney Encyclopaedia (Harry).

  Richard Ogden leaves MPL: author’s discussion with Ogden. PM on the decision to extend 1993 tour: Club Sandwich # 69.

  Ivan Vaughan dies: death certificate; author’s interview with his widow Janet (quoted).

  ‘Ivan’ is published in the book Blackbird Singing.

  James McCartney surfing drama: the Sun (14 Sept. 1993).

  MPL turnover: company records.

  PM- ‘I’m off to be a Beatle now’ - author’s interview with Hamish Stuart.

  24: A THREE - QUARTERS REUNION

  Neil Aspinall quoted from the Daily Telegraph (18 Nov.1995).

  Anthology background: the Anthology Special Features DVD; Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts (Holland); Club Sandwich # 72; Beatles Unlimited magazine # 124 (Barnaby Rudge); and Sound on Sound (Dec. 1995).

  GH’s financial problems: author’s interviews; George Harrison (Clayson); The Beatles Book (March 1995). ‘My Sweet Lord’ court case: All Things Must Pass (Shapiro) and The Encyclopaedia of Beatles People (Harry). GH bails out Life of Brian: Seventies (Sounes).

  PM - ‘serious money’ - off-the-record interview.

  GH - ‘the most ancient …’ - Anthology (Special Features DVD).

  PM’s induction speech at the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame: Club Sandwich # 69.

  Campaign to induct PM: author’s interview with Danny Fields (quoted), and his book Linda McCartney.

  Recording ‘Free as a Bird’: the Anthology (Special Features DVD and CD Vol. 1 liner notes); and Club Sandwich # 72 and 76 (PM quoted).

  GH on ‘Free as a Bird’: the Anthology (documentary).

  Geoff Emerick quoted from discussion with the author.

  George Martin quoted from Sound on Sound (Dec. 1995).

  PM quoted on watching the footage and the choice of tracks on the Anthology (CD Vol. 1); Club Sandwich # 76.

  Bob Smeaton quoted from The Beatles Book (Dec. 1995).

  PM quoted on compiling the CD: Club Sandwich # 76.

  PM’s painting: Paul McCartney: Paintings and author’s interview with Wolfgang Suttner (quoted).

  LIPA progress: author’s interview with Mark Featherstone-Witty (quoted), except ‘He went on to …’ which is from his book Optimistic, Even Then.

  PM helps Horst Fascher: quoted from author’s interview.

  PM helps his local hospital and other charitable work: thanks to Ann Hostler at Rye Health Care Ltd. Also the Independent on Sunday (16 July 1999).

  ‘Real Love’/Harrison’s dissent: author’s interviews and PM’s comments to the Sunday Express Boulevard magazine (4 May 1997).

  Third song: The Beatles Book (March 1996).

  Recording new songs with Steve Miller and others: Flaming Pie liner notes.

  Working with David Matthews: author’s interview and correspondence with Matthews (quoted). Also Independent on Sunday (5 Oct. 1997).

  PM performs at St James’ Palace: Club Sandwich # 74.

  PM works with Ginsberg and asks for help with ‘Standing Stone’: author’s correspondence with Tom Pickard.

  The Hodgsons’ find: author’s interviews with Peter Hodgson (quoted).

  Heather McCartney Designs: company records.

  Stella McCartney graduates: Independent magazine (28 Oct. 1995); Stella May Day: The Unknown Paul McCartney (Peel).

  James McCartney’s car accident: Daily Mail (4 May 1995); and The Beatles Book (June 1995).

  Barry Miles quoted from author’s interview.

  Pete Best makes money at last: author’s interviews.

  GH - ‘It sounds like them now …’ - the Anthology (documentary).

  The Anthology release: author’s interviews; The Beatles Book (various editions); George Martin quoted from Sound on Sound (Dec. 1995); and author’s interview with Hodgson.

  MPL turnover: company records.

  25: PASSING THROUGH THE DREAM OF LOVE

  LM has cancer: PM’s interview with the Daily Mail (17 Oct. 1998); Garland for Linda liner notes; author’s interviews with Danny Fields and Carla Lane (quoted), and LM’s death certificate.

  LIPA cost: author’s interview with Mark Featherstone-Witty, and his books.

  What PM has and hasn’t done for Liverpool: Dave Holt and Spencer Leigh quoted from author’s interviews.

  LIPA Inauguration: author’s interview with Mark Featherstone-Witty and his book LIPA the First Ten Years (PM quoted).

  Chemotherapy: Daily Mirror (23 Oct. 1998).

  LM tries to get PM nominated: Danny Fields to author.

  PM on his and LM’s attempt to reverse the credit on ‘Yesterday’ for the Anthology: Rolling Stone (6 Dec. 2001).

  Maureen Starkey dies: The Beatles (Davies [updated)]

  LM’s will: the document, dated 4 July 1996, filed in the Surrogate Court of New York (File # 179-99).

  Standing Stone: author’s interview and correspondence with David Matthews and Tom Pickard (both quoted); also Paul McCartney: Paintings.

  PM buys High Ranachan Farm: author’s interview with Alice and Duncan McLean (quoted).

  James McCartney records ‘Heaven on a Sunday’ with parents: Flaming Pie liner notes; and PM’s interview with the Sunday Express Boulevard magazine (4 May 1997 [James McCartney quote]).

  Knighthood: author’s interview with Featherstone-Witty (quoted).

  PM revealed the watch inscription at LM’s London memorial, the Sun (9 June 1998).

  Mary McCartney quoted from the Daily Express (12 March 1997).

  Rushes: author’s interview with Youth (quoted).

  Conclusion of the Anita Cochrane story: newspaper coverage including mother and son’s interviews with the Daily Mail (31 May and 2 June 1997); author’s discussion with Philip Howarth; also interview with relative Ian Pillans.

  LM treated by Larry Norton: Danny Fields interview.

  Confrontation at Plaza Athénée: author’s interview with Linda Aiello (quoted). Cancer spreads: PM interview with Daily Mail (17 Oct. 1998).

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nbsp; McCartneys upset by the death of Tim Buckley: author’s interview with Danny Fields.

  GH cancer: All Things Must Pass (Shapiro), and Knocking on Heaven’s Door (Talevski).

  Associates die: author’s interviews; The Beatles (Davies [updated]) and Knocking on Heaven’s Door (Talevski).

  PM’s appearance at 1997 Buddy Holly Week: Club Sandwich # 83.

  Last-minute changes to Standing Stone: David Matthews quoted from author’s interview; PM on Kent Nagano from his interview with the Independent on Sunday (5 Oct. 1997).

  Danny Fields’s last meeting with LM: author’s interview (also subsequent quotes).

  Barbecue in Arizona: author’s interview with Beverly Wilk (quoted). Christmas at Blossom Farm: details that emerged during LM’s London memorial service, Daily Mail (9 June 1998); and author’s interview with Walter van Dijk (quoted).

  LM quit smoking marijuana: PM to Chrissie Hynde in USA Weekend (30 Oct. 1998).

  Final discussions with Carla Lane/ recalled dialogue: author’s interview.

  Rescued puppies: the Daily Mail (4 Oct. 1997).

  PM transfers property to Heather’s name: property records.

  Final recording sessions: Wide Prairie liner notes.

  LM’s last days and death: death certificate; author’s local enquiries in Arizona, press reports including PM’s interview with the Daily Mail (17 Oct. 1998).

  PM’s last words to LM: his statement released at her death (21 April 1998); also Beatles Unlimited # 141.

  26: RUN DEVIL RUN

  LM’s funeral: Arizona death certificate and author’s local enquires.

  Geoff Baker dissembles: press cuttings and author’s discussions with Baker.

  Carla Lane and Geoff Dunbar quoted from author’s interviews.

  In extremis: PM on Breakfast with Frost (7 Dec. 1997, reprinted in The Beatles Book [Jan. 1998]), saying his wife’s illness made them ‘talk to God, or It, a little more often’.

  London and New York memorials: press coverage and author’s interviews and correspondence with mourners including Carla Lane, Danny Fields, John McGeachy, Lord Puttnam, Eric Stewart and Pete Townshend (quoted on his speech).

  Works with Nitin Sawhney: author’s interview with Sawhney (quoted).

  Attends LIPA graduation: author’s interviews with Mark Featherstone-Witty and Joe Flannery (both quoted).

  Heather McCartney’s signature missing: court documents. That she arrived in Tucson too late to say goodbye to her mother was reported in the Sunday Times (26 April 1998).

  PM buys Amagansett property: author’s local enquiries; also Justice Bennett’s March 2008 High Court judgment in the McCartney divorce (hereafter referred to as the Bennett judgment).

  James McCartney at sister Mary’s wedding: author’s interview with church warden Walter Piggott.

  PM on ‘The Light Comes from Within’: Wide Prairie liner notes.

  PM fires Reddington: author’s interview with Reddington (quoted).

  Effect of LM’s death on Heather and James McCartney: author’s interviews including Beverly Wilk (Heather) and friends and neighbours in Sussex (James).

  Heather McCartney launches household range: quoted from the Daily Telegraph (4 Feb. 1999) and her 1999 Atlanta press conference (The Paul McCartney Encyclopaedia).

  Heather said she felt life wasn’t worth living: quoted in the Sunday Times (28 Nov. 1999).

  Signatures on probate documents: LM’s will, Surrogate Court, New York, File # 179-99.

  Arthur Donald born: birth certificate.

  Danny Fields quoted from author’s interview (includes comment by Hynde to Fields).

  German exhibition: author’s interview with Wolfgang Suttner. Also Paul McCartney: Paintings.

  Brian Sewell quoted from correspondence with the author.

  PM meets Heather Mills (HM): her revised memoir, A Single Step, and coverage of the Pride of Britain Awards in OK! magazine (11 June 1999).

  PM’s dialogue with Piers Morgan is quoted from his book, The Insider.

  The Heather Mills Health Trust: Out on a Limb; www.charity-commission.gov.uk, and charity commission documentation; HM’s 17 Nov. 1999 interview with Pete Norman for People magazine in which she talks of ‘the/my charity’ prior to its registration. Thanks also to Sarah Nelson at the Charity Commission.

  PM on animal noises: Rolling Stone (6 Dec. 2001).

  HM’s background story: primarily based on her book Out on a Limb; also author’s interviews with Alfie Karmal (quoted), and the 2003 Channel 4 documentary Heather Mills: The Real Mrs McCartney, from which Charles Stapley is quoted.

  HM is likened to Princess Diana: OK! (9 Feb. 1997); Paralympics: Hello! (22 July 1995): Nobel nomination: HM interview with Pete Norman, 1999; film of her life/ ministerial ambition: Daily Mail (17 Jan. 1998).

  Garland for Linda: liner notes of the Garland for Linda CD, and author’s interviews and correspondence with David Matthews and Sir John Tavener.

  PM’s developing relationship with HM is based primarily on the Bennett judgment (unless otherwise indicated).

  Engagement to Terrill: The [Daily] Mirror (5 July 1999). HM jilts Terrill: various press reports including News of the World (7 Nov. 1999).

  HM goes to Long Island with PM: Bennett judgment.

  Hallowe’en tryst: described by HM in A Single Step.

  Bonfire night: News of the World (7 Nov. 1999).

  Fountain: author’s interview with Carla Lane.

  Cavern show: Live at the Cavern Club DVD (MPL, 2000) and The Cavern (Leigh).

  Christmas and New Year with PM: A Single Step (HM quote); and author’s interview with Mike Robbins (quoted).

  Parrot Cay: A Single Step and Bennett judgment.

  Mel See’s decline, death and burial: author’s interviews with Jonathan Kress, Beverly Wilk (quoted) and the Zeller family; Mel See’s will; and records of the Evergreen Mortuary and Cemetery, Tucson, AZ. Thanks also to Lt Deanna Coultas of the Pima County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona (quoted).

  Veronica Languish is quoted from author’s interview.

  Alfie Karmal tells his story: Sunday People (9 April 2000).

  HM a ‘party girl’: Ros Ashley in the Mail on Sunday (23 April 2000).

  Mike Robbins quoted from author’s interview.

  Linda Aiello quoted from author’s interview.

  Indian trip: Bennett judgment. Also thanks to Pete Norman.

  Recording Driving Rain: liner notes.

  ‘Heather House’ and purchase of Angel’s Rest: Bennett judgment.

  PM on working with Linda: Wingspan documentary (MPL, 2001).

  Adrian Mitchell quoted from his introduction to Blackbird Singing (McCartney).

  Working on Ecce Cor Meum: author’s interview with David Matthews and Anthony Smith (quoted).

  Anthony Smith, Eric Stewart, Tony Bramwell and Mark Featherstone-Witty on HM: all quoted from author’s interviews.

  Proposal and engagement: HM describes in A Single Step; also the Bennett judgment. Thanks to Pete Norman.

  27: THAT DIFFICULT SECOND MARRIAGE

  PM witnesses 9/11: A Single Step (Mills) and PM’s interview with Rolling Stone (3 May 2007).

  ‘Urgent charity commitments’ and HM to PM: A Single Step.

  HM helped write ‘Freedom’: Each One Believing.

  Concert for New York: A Single Step (Mills); footage of the show, and author’s interview with a VH-1 executive who did not wish to be named. Thanks also to Pete Townshend (quoted from correspondence with author).

  Decline and death of GH: author’s interview with Neil Innes (quoted); GH’s death certificate; A Single Step (Mills).

  First performance of Ecce Cor Meum: author’s interviews with David Matthews and Anthony Smith (quoted).

  PM’s reaction to death of GH: videotape of his meeting with the press.

  Financial generosity with HM: Bennett judgment.

  HM’s ignorance of Beatles songs: PM to Reader’s Digest (Nov. 2001).

  Tour routin
e: Each One Believing; Back in the USA DVD (PM and Wix quoted, and Brian Ray observation).

  PM was reported saying Heather walked out of show rehearsals when he played ‘a song I wrote for Linda’: Mail on Sunday (5 Nov. 2006).

  Defenestrated ring: News of the World (2 June 2002).

  Golden Jubilee concert: television coverage.e,

  PM marries HM: marriage certificate, press coverage, author’s correspondence with Sir John Leslie (quoted); and author’s interviews with guests Geoff Baker, Mike Robbins and Nitin Sawhney (last two quoted).

  Details emerged about PM’s behaviour leading up to the wedding day: Bennett judgment.

  Walker Art Gallery: author’s interview with Gillian Reynolds (quoted).

  Heather Mills McCartney to Barbara Walters: Sunday Express (2 Oct. 2002). Also Walters on the View (25 April 2007).

  LA row: quotes are from HM’s response to PM’s divorce petition, leaked to the press in Oct. 2006 and widely reported.

  HM to Larry King: BBC News online (1 Nov. 2002).

  Kintyre memorial: author’s interview with Alastair Cousin (quoted). Thanks also to former town councillor George McMillan.

  Song credits on Back in the US: liner notes.

  RS quote: the Sun (12 Jan. 2008).

  Concert for George: DVD of the show (Oops Publishing Ltd, 2003); and author’s interviews with Neil Innes and Ravi Shankar (quoted).

  Ray Connolly review: Daily Mail (28 March 2003).

  PM to Daily Mirror - ‘Heather said to me …’: edition of 7 April 2003.

  Money given to HM and miscarriage: Bennett judgment.

  Channel 4 documentary: Heather Mills: The Real Mrs McCartney (broadcast 7 May 2003).

  Rome row: quotes are from HM’s response to PM’s divorce petition, leaked to the press in Oct. 2006 and widely reported.

  Astrid Kirchherr on HM: quoted from author’s interview.

  Stella McCartney’s opposition to HM: author’s interviews and press reports.

  Red Square show: Each One Believing (PM quoted).

  Amagansett folk on Heather Mills: author’s interviews with Alda Lupo Stipanoe and a library worker who didn’t wish to be named (both quoted).

  Long Island row: the quote is from HM’s response to PM’s divorce petition, leaked to the press in Oct. 2006 and widely reported.