3
Stephen Birmingham, Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address (New York: Open Road, 2015), p. 20.4
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 40.5
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 74.6
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 79.7
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 192.8
Christine Haughney, “Sharing the Dakota with John Lennon”, The New York Times December 6, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/ nyregion/07appraisal.html.9
Rosaura Lopéz Lorenzo, En Casa de John Lennon (Coruña: Hércules Ediciones, 2005), p. 35.10
Interview with Jim Ryan and Susan Ratisher Ryan, November 2, 2019.11
Peter Goddard, “A Crowd of People Stood and Stared: Remembering John Lennon”, The Star December 9, 2010, www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2010/12/09/a_crowd_of_people_stood_and_stared_re-membering_john_lennon.html; Carol Tannenhauser, “An Optometrist Recalls Late Night Chats with John Lennon and that Awful Night”. West Side Rag December 8, 2017, www.westsiderag.com/2017/12/08/an-optometrist-recalls-late-night-chats-with-john-lennon-and-that-awfulnight.12
Lorenzo, En Casa de John Lennon, p. 10; Chet Flippo, “The Private Years”, The Ballad of John and Yoko, ed. Jonathan Cott and Christine Doudna (New York: Rolling Stone, 1982), p. 178; Alex Williams, “Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life”, The New York Times January 10, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/style/who-is-rex-reed.html.13
Frederic Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir (New York: Birch Lane, 1991), p. 83.14
Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, p. 83.15
Interview with Jim Ryan and Susan Ratisher Ryan, November 2, 2019.16
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, interview by David Sheff, ed. G. Barry Golson (New York: Griffin, 2000), p. 82.17
George Martin, “‘They Were My Boys, the Greatest in the World’: An Interview with George Martin (1993)”, interview by Bill DeYoung, January 3, 2016, www.billdeyoung.com/tag/george-martin-beatles/.18
George Martin with William Pearson, With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), p. 24; Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (London: Ecco, 2008), p. 783.19
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, pp. 147–48.20
Sara Cedar Miller, Strawberry Fields: Central Park’s Memorial to John Lennon (New York: Abrams, 2011), p. 39.21
Jeannine Jones, “A Writer Shares 1980s UWS Memories and Asks for Yours”, West Side Rag November 24, 2013, www.westsiderag.com/2013/11/24/ a-writer-shares-1980s-uws-memories-and-asks-for-yours; “Throwback Thursday: Fantastic Video Surfaces of the UWS in 1977”, West Side Rag December 3, 2015, www.westsiderag.com/2015/12/03/throwback-thursday-fantastic-video-surfaces-of-the-uws-in-1977.22
Tannenhauser, “An Optometrist Recalls Late Night Chats with John Lennon and that Awful Night”; “Ben Stiller Says NYC Is an Exciting Place for Kids”, People August 11, 2008, people.com/parents/ben-stiller-sta/.23
Interview with Jim Ryan and Susan Ratisher Ryan, November 2, 2019.24
Interview with Jim Ryan and Susan Ratisher Ryan, November 2, 2019; interview with Robert Morgan, January 2, 2020.25
Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, p. 27.26
Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, pp. 9, 14.27
Lennon and Ono, John Lennon: The Man, the Memory – Last Interview Special, interview by Dave Sholin and Laurie Kaye, RKO Radio, December 8, 1980.28
Lorenzo, En Casa de John Lennon, p. 64.29
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 171.30
Katie Hickox, “John Lennon’s Country Girl Gets Beatles-Styled Wedding in Vegas”, Beatles News April 16, 2009, www.beatlesnews.com/news/thebeatles/200904160703/john-lennons-country-girl-gets-beatles-styledwedding-in-vegas.html; Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, p. 109.31
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 217.32
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 216.33
Birmingham, Life at the Dakota, p. 230.34
William J. Dowlding, Beatlesongs (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), p. 184.35
Haughney, “Sharing the Dakota with John Lennon”.36
Lorenzo, En Casa de John Lennon, p. 30.37
Imagine: John Lennon, dir. Andrew Solt, Warner Bros., 1988.38
Liz Smith, “Insults, Intrigues, and Indignities”, Daily News March 23, 1980, p. 6.39
Moira Petty, “Decline of a Rock Genius”, The Times September 29, 2000, pp. 2, 8.