Quotes from Philip Norman

Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare.

wherever Haley's voice rang out with "One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock RAHK…" the gritty drama on the screen was totally eclipsed by mayhem among the audience. Boys and girls alike went literally berserk, shrieking like banshees, tearing at the fabric of their seats, lurching out to dance in the aisles or engage in mass brawls that required dozens of police to contain them.

Paul said it would be better for them to express their views back in Britain, because "there, people listen a bit more. In America, they hold everything against you.

fatal stabbing of a young black spectator while Mick Jagger vainly appealed to the crowd to "cool out" and love one another. Good-bye Sixties; welcome to the future.

He has been a trouble spot for many years in discipline, but has somewhat mended his ways. Requires the sanction of 'losing a job' to keep him on the rails. But I believe he is not beyond redemption and he could really turn out a fairly responsible adult who might go far.

Alf then told John he must choose between going with Mummy or staying with Daddy. If you want to tear a small child in two, there is no better way.

Late one night, as he walked back alone from a Kasuals gig, a truck screeched to a halt beside him and a group of drunken white youths jumped out, screaming racial abuse. Jimmy took off across a cornfield, easily outdistanced his would-be attackers and then, rather like Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, lay doggo on top of Betty-Jean, until they gave up and drove away.

For the first time since its birth in Britain's industrial dawn, Liverpool was deliberately invoked as a source of excitement, glamour, and novelty.

After meeting John, my father took me aside and said, "The other one was better looking.

Paul then asked if being managed by Brian would make any difference to the music they played. Brian assured him that it would not. There was a second uneasy silence, again broken by John. "Right then, Brian," he said. "Manage

staff are terrified of them, and not without reason.

have fired more people than any comparable employer unit in the world. They make Lord Beaverbrook look like Jesus.

Yoko has a refrigerated room, just for keeping her fur coats. She's got rooms full of those clothes racks like you see at Marks and Spencer.

Imagine six apartments It isn't hard to do. One is full of fur coats The other's full of shoes.

felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.

John's niceness about signing his Double Fantasy album temporarily disarmed him.

He had always loved to draw and paint, begging to be bought pencils, paint boxes, and paper rather than toys, spending hours wrapped up in worlds of his own creation.

escaped from the theater by running into the adjacent fire station, sliding down the firemen's pole, and escaping in a police car while one of the engines rushed out to create a diversion.