285
Madinger and Easter, Eight Arms to Hold You, p. 131.286
Di Perna, “Rick Nielsen, Earl Slick, and Jack Douglas Discuss the Recording of John Lennon’s Final Album Double Fantasy”; Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, p. 205.287
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 85.288
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 169.289
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 522.290
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 522.291
Interview with Stuart Zolotorow, January 24, 2020.292
Ibid.293
Sharp, Starting Over, pp. 139–40.294
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 523.295
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 523.296
Ibid.297
All We Are Saying, pp. 3–4, 102; Cott, Days That I’ll Remember, p. 162.298
All We Are Saying, p. 18.299
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 524.300
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 175.301
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 176.302
Sharp, Starting Over, pp. 135–36.303
Riley, Lennon, p. 633.304
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 526; Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, p. 209.305
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 153.306
Sharp, Starting Over, pp. 160–61.307
Interview with Douglas, August 11, 2018.308
Sharp, Starting Over, pp. 147–48.309
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 148; Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 528.310
Interview with Smith, February 7, 2020.311
Cott, Days That I’ll Remember, pp. 167–68.312
All We Are Saying, p. 17.313
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 201.314
Jeroen Dekker, “One World, One People: John Lennon’s Spring 1981 Tour”, Lennon Chords 2005, lennonchords.info/1981/index.htm; Sharp, Starting Over, p. 200.315
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 241; interview with Douglas, August 11, 2018.316
Garson O’Toole, “When You’re 60, You Realize No One Was Ever Thinking of You”, June 1, 2019, quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/01/ worry/.317
Badman, The Beatles Diary, p. 618.318
Sharp, Starting Over, pp. 91–92.319
Ibid.320
The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, p. 277.321
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 529.322
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 156.323
Hilburn, Corn Flakes with John Lennon, p. 119.324
Milk And Honey liner notes; Madinger and Easter, Eight Arms to Hold You, p. 131.325
Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon, p. 219.326
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 531; interview with Smith, February 7, 2020.327
Ibid.328
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 180.329
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 531.330
Interview with Seaman, December 16, 2017.331
All We Are Saying, pp. 125–26.332
The John Lennon Letters, p. 382.333
Laurence Shames, “John Lennon, Where Are You?: In Search of the Beatle Who Spent Two Decades Seeking True Love and Cranial Bliss Only to Discover Cows, Daytime Television, and Palm Beach Real Estate”, Esquire November 1, 1980, classic.esquire.com/article/1980/11/1/john-lennonwhere-are-you.334
Ibid.335
Ibid.336
Jack Mitchell, “A Final Record”, The New York Times December 8, 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/opinion/a-final-record.html.337
Ibid.338
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 531; interview with Seaman, September 19, 2019.339
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 532.340
Saturday Night Live, NBC Television, Season Six, Episode 1, November 15, 1980.341
Badman, The Beatles Diary, p. 684.342
Ibid.343
Sharp, Starting Over, p. 180.344
John Lennon: The Man, the Memory.345
Jack Lloyd, “Lennon’s Expected Splash Is Instead a Strong Ripple”, The Philadelphia Inquirer November 30, 1980, p. 142; Steve Pond, “Lennon, Ono in Yesteryear”, Los Angeles Times November 30, 1980, p. 79.346
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 533; Terry Lawson, “Double Fantasy Isn’t Bold or Adventurous”, Journal Herald November 22, 1980, p. 24.347
Badman, The Beatles Diary, p. 684; Johnny Rogan, Lennon: The Albums (London: Omnibus, 1982), ch. 12.348
Yoko Ono, “John Lennon’s Last Days: A Remembrance by Yoko Ono”, Rolling Stone December 23, 2010, www.rollingstone.com/music/musicnews/john-lennons-last-days-a-remembrance-by-yoko-ono-62533/.349
Saturday Night Live, NBC Television, Season Six, Episode 2, November 22, 1980.350
Cott and Doudna, The Ballad of John and Yoko, p. 227.351
The John Lennon Letters, p. 384; Rodriguez, Fab Four FAQ 2.0, p. 398.352
Madinger and Raile, Lennonology, p. 534.353
Ben Yakas, “Record Producer Jack Douglas Opens Up about Working with John Lennon”, Gothamist July 18, 2016, gothamist.com/artsentertainment/ record-producer-jack-douglas-opens-up-about-workingwith-john-lennon.354
Yakas, “Record Producer Jack Douglas Opens Up about Working with John Lennon”.