According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip.

According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

According to Taylor, " The guy had sort of pinned me to the wall and was glistening with maniacal sweat and talking some freak speak about what he was going to do and his stuff with how John was interested, and he was going to get in touch with John Lennon.

According to Lennon, their decision not to pick the show up was influenced by a scene, preserved in the eventual Comedy Central pilot, involving Lt. Dangle passionately kissing a man.

According to Albert Goldman's biography, John Lennon named " Reminiscing " as one of his favourite songs.

* According to McCartney, " Tell Me What You See " was written 60 % by him, 40 % by Lennon.

" According to journalist Jade Wright, " Lennon was fascinated by the power of slogans to unite people and never afraid to create art out of propaganda.

According to Lennon, " it was resurrected with a middle eight thrown in, probably with Paul's help " for Rubber Soul.

* According to journalist Richard Simpson, Lennon wrote the song in response to Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones boasting about his pop-star girlfriend (" bird " in British Isles slang ) Marianne Faithfull.

According to Lennon, the song's close musical resemblance to Ludwig van Beethoven's " Moonlight Sonata " was no coincidence: " Yoko was playing Beethoven's ' Moonlight Sonata ' on the piano ...

According to Beatles biographer John T. Marck, " Real Love " originated as part of an unfinished stage play that Lennon was working on at the time titled " The Ballad of John and Yoko.

According to Lennon, " In ' Mean Mr. Mustard ', I said ' his sister Pam '— originally it was ' his sister Shirley ' in the lyric.

According to Lennon, the title came from the cover of a gun magazine that producer George Martin showed him: " I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said ' Happiness Is a Warm Gun.

According to accounts of the time, " Everybody who was anybody " came to the Cockette's New York opening, including such celebrities as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Liza Minnelli, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Angela Lansbury.

According to Peter Brown in his book The Love You Make, the song was written in a " creative outburst " following Lennon and Ono going " cold turkey " from their brief heroin addictions.

According to George Harrison, John Lennon played the guitar solo.

According to Bill Wyman in his book ' Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ' N ' Roll Band ,' John Lennon said of The Rolling Stones No. 2: " The album's great, but I don't like five-minute numbers.

According to Goldman, on the day Lennon was murdered he was scheduled to undergo plastic surgery several days later to repair his nasal septum ( due to snorting cocaine, which he supposedly did at the Hit Factory recording studio where he recorded his album Double Fantasy ).

According to Lennon, it was written together but it was " mainly mine ".

According to Lennon in the International Times: " The first dope, from a Benzedrine inhaler, was given to the Beatles ( John, George, Paul and Stuart ) by an English cover version of Allen Ginsberg — one Royston Ellis, known as ' beat poet ' ...

According to his mother, both she and her son maintained friendly relations with all of The Beatles except for Lennon, who by Cooke de Herrera's account was " a genius " but distant and contemptuous of the wealthy American Cooke de Herrera and her clean-cut, college-attending son.

According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of " Sexy Sadie " features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band: " Maharishi, you little twat / Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Oh, you cunt.

According to Lennon, the song's origins can be found when the English journalist Kenneth Allsop made a remark that Lennon should write songs about his childhood.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

According to Freedom House, in 2007 there were 123 electoral democracies ( up from 40 in 1972 ).

According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute this is the first time it has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972.

According to a report released by the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research, when Connecticut ’ s law was adopted in 1972 that mandated certain grain products, including macaroni products, sold within the state to be enriched it joined 38 to 40 other states in adopting the federal standards as mandates.

According to an interview with members of Sunrise the studio was founded by former members of Mushi Production in 1972, under the name.

During this period Norman wrote at least three comedies: X-Mass ( 1971 ), Also Sprach Kazoostra ( 1972 ) and The Gospel According To Moresell, Moresold ( 1973 ).

According to the 2003 draft entry for " felch " in the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest occurrence of the word in print appears to have been in The Argot of the Homosexual Subculture by Ronald A. Farrell in 1972.

According to the Marxist economist Ernest Mandel, who popularised the term with his 1972 PhD dissertation, late-stage capitalism will be dominated by the machinations – or perhaps better, fluidities – of financial capital ; and also by the increasing commodification and industrialisation of ever more inclusive sectors of human life.

According to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panics ( 1972 ) and credited as creator of the term, a moral panic occurs when " condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ".

According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre has included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Theatre ( February 1972 ); I, Claudius at the Queen's Theatre ( July 1972 ); A Feast of Snails at the Lyric Theatre ( February 2002 ); Where There's a Will at the Theatre Royal, Bath ; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre ( in 2005, see details below ); and also Major Barbara on Broadway.

According to Pender ( 1972 ), " the state has been designated as dissociative anesthesia since the patient truly seems disassociated from his environment.

Madow goes on to point out “ fame is often conferred or withheld, just as love is, for reasons and on grounds other than ‘ merit ’.” According to Sofia Johansson the “ canonical texts on stardom ” include articles by Boorstin ( 1971 ), Alberoni ( 1972 ) and Dyer ( 1979 ) that examined the “ representations of stars and on aspects of the Hollywood star system ”.

According to President Nixon's memoirs, he had asked Justice Burger in the spring of 1970 to be prepared to run for President in 1972 if the political repercussions of the Cambodia invasion were too negative for him to endure.

According to a TIME Magazine profile of 1972, Roberts originally made a name for himself with a large mobile tent " that sat 3, 000 on metal folding chairs " where " he shouted at petitioners who did not respond to his healing.

According to a memo sent by L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI Director, to H. R. Haldeman in 1972: " Sources in Miami say he ( Sturgis ) is now associated with organized crime activities ".

According to the 1975 Rockefeller Commission report, Hunt testified that he had never met Sturgis before they were introduced by Bernard Barker in Miami in 1972.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the first recorded use of the term zero tolerance was in 1972.

According to Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, Nixon White House tapes show that after presidential candidate George Wallace was shot on May 15, 1972, Nixon and Colson agreed to send Hunt to the Milwaukee home of the gunman, Arthur Bremer, to place McGovern presidential campaign material there.

According to Lancaster ( 1972 ), the delay prompted some reflection ; James S. T. Stranahan, then President of the Brooklyn Board of Park Commissioners, invited Calvert Vaux to review Viele's plans early in 1865.

According to a study by Freedom House, in 67 countries where dictatorships have fallen since 1972, nonviolent civic resistance was a strong influence over 70 percent of the time.

According to Curt Herzstark, the last Curta was produced in 1972.

According to the Australian government, an electrical " power-board " was invented in 1972 by Australian electrical engineer Peter Talbot working under Frank Bannigan, Managing Director of Australian company Kambrook.

According to a 1972 North American analysis of 1970 calendar year data, diving was found to be, on man-hours based criteria, 96 times more dangerous than driving an automobile.