•John paid £200 and wrote a letter of apology to Bob Wooler for a physical altercation for which John was responsible. The telegram of apology to Wooler was later sold at Sotheby's for £500.

•When John had trouble driving Pete Shotton's car, John was driving so poorly that Pete told John that he was going to break it. John replied, "I'll buy you another half dozen" (Shotton).

•In 1961 Jorgen Vollmer went to a flea market where John purchased a green corduroy jacket (Harry. JL Encyclopedia, p. 949).

•At some point in the early 60's John paid for a subscription to Mersey Beat for Jorgen Vollmer (Harry. JL Encyclopedia, p. 949).

•John's guitar that he played on 'You Can't Do That' was a Rickenbacker model no. 1996 and cost 159 guineas. Quite a lot for 1964 (Coleman).

•In late '62 John and George purchase a couple of Gibson Jumbo Body guitars as spares (Schultheiss 41).

•The Lennon’s visited Robert Freeman, Beatle photographer, when looking for an apartment to move to London. Upon hearing that the apartment above the Freeman’s was vacant, John rented it sight unseen (Brown, p. 113).

•Brian bought a round, then I stumped for another. We were just finishing these drinks when John tapped on my knee. I leaned across to him and he whispered into my ear, "Can you lend us a couple of quid, Al?" The Beatles are broke! I discreetly slipped two pounds under the table to him and he winked his thanks. It's alright for Brian to buy clothes and pay for all the traveling, but drinking's different. No one likes to not be able to stand a round, especially as independent as John (Taylor, A. p. 22).

•When The Beatles' career exploded in 1963, the star put his "secret wife and baby in a London flat: 'Top floor, £15 a week... (Meet the Wife article).

•After a short break in Liverpool, John returned to Hamburg where he made enough money to help his Aunt Mimi out with expenses (Lennon, Cynthia. Twist p.61).

Income:

•Aunt Mimi gave John £10 to purchase the wedding ring (gold band) for Cynthia.

•John removed a mouth organ from a music store in Holland without paying for it. Alan Williams stated later that he would have bought John one if he had known John was going to just take it (Williams).

•For a few days in April 1960 John and Paul worked behind the bar at Paul's cousin's pub. They then played as the Nerk Twins at night and the next afternoon (Miles).

•John's letter to Mimi did not state that he was making £15 per week. He originally told her he'd be making £100 per week.

•Brian paid the bill at Hessy's music by personal check for John's Hofner Club-40 guitar.

•When John came back from Hamburg the first time he borrowed 1/2 crown from Pete Shotton the next day (Shotton).

•Schultheiss reports that Lennon and McCartney were commissioned to write the music for a ballet called 'Mods and Rockers' on page 71 of The Beatles: A Day in the Life, A Perigee Book.

•John received a gift of £100 from his Aunt Elizabeth in Sutherland, Scotland just before his 21st birthday (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 34).

•John and Paul were planning to go to Spain with John's £40 gift from his aunt in Scotland, but he and Paul spent the money in Paris and never continued to Spain (Flippo, p. 139).

•Cynthia applied for Social Security in 1962 while pregnant with Julian (Flippo, p. 168).

•Little Richard: We spent two months together in Hamburg. John, Paul, George, and Pete. They would stay in my room every night. So hadn't any money, so I paid for their food. I used to buy steaks for John (Giuliano. Lost Int. p. 363).

Financial Assistance for Others:

•Early in his Beatle days John asked Pete Shotton how he was doing. Pete responded that he was barely getting by financially. John pulled out a brown envelope, and placed it in Shotton's hand. When asked what the envelope was John replied, "just me pay packet". Shotton wondered for a moment why John hadn't taken out £10 for himself, but then realized it was typical of John to have given him the whole thing and worry about where his money would come from later. The Pay packet that John gave Shotton was still sealed when Shotton received it. Shotton at the time was earning £12 per week. Inside the envelope were ten crisp £5 notes (Shotton).

•After seeing a program about Autistic children on the BBC John instructed the accountants to donate £1000 to an Autism Fund.

•Geoffrey: Tell me about these wild shopping sprees John and Cynthia took you on. Julia Baird: We had whatever we wanted. Jacqui got a pair of leather trousers. It was just clothes beyond what you would normally be able to afford. Expensive, jumpers, records, and things (Giuliano. Lost Int. p. 317).

General Statements:

•Patricia Daniels (original Liverpool Beatles fan): John was always the hard one-he'd say, "Come on, you've got a shilling for my bus fare, don't you luv?" or something like that. And of course I'd always give it to him (Giuliano, Glass Onion, p. 259).

•John once told a reporter that his ambition was to become rich and famous.

John commented that he began attending art college because he thought "it was better than working" (Martin, Goldsmith. The Beatles Come to America, p. 24).

•John: "Once I heard it and got into it, that was my life, there was no other thing. I thought of nothing else but rock n' roll, apart from sex and food and money-but that's all the same thing really. (Goldsmith, Martin. The Beatles Come to America, p. 20).

•...the line about "spending someone's hard-earned pay" recalls the "working-class glee" that Paul said he and John felt when they first realized that their songwriting could make them rich(Hertsgaard, M. A Day in the Life. The Music and Artistry of the Beatles. p. 270).

•In November 1959 John did not have a guitar. "John must have sold or bust his guitar"(The Beatles Video Anthology Vol. I).

•Lennon: The press around with you want you to carry on because they want the free drinks and the free whores and the fun...We were the Caesars. Who was going to knock us when there was a million pounds to be made? (Hertsgaard, M. A Day in the Life. The Music and Artistry of the Beatles. p. 93).

•John referring to one of his early apartments in London: Christ Cyn, we'll have to get out of this death trap before they kill me. I had no idea it was going to be like this. It's like a bloody madhouse out there, we deserve every penny we get (Lennon, Cynthia. Twist p. 98).

•Geoffrey: How did John change when he got money? Julia Baird: He was still very family-minded. Geoffrey: People have told me he never really cared much about the money. Julia Baird: I think anyone who asked for it got it. Which prevented a lot of people who maybe would have done from asking (Giuliano. Lost Int. p. 314).

•Cynthia circa late '63 on vacation with John: Our hotel in Paris was the Hotel George Cinque. We felt totally out of our depth but it didn't bother us too much. At least we could pay our bills and maybe even buy and sell some of them. Anyway, we had each other (Lennon, Cynthia. Twist p. 91).

•Reporter: "What will you do when Beatlemania subsides?". John: "Count the money".

•Songwriting credits on records change from McCartney/Lennon to Lennon/McCartney in November of '63 (Schultheiss 64).

•When Brian sent the telegram about "signing" with Parlophone Records John wired back: "When are we going to be millionaires?".

•In reference to early Skiffle: The performers were generally poor, without conventional instruments they sought out any common household object that could be blown, tapped,brushed or converted to make a series of note-like sounds (Porter, A. Before They Were Beatles, p. 17).

•Geoffrey: When he first got money what did he do? Did he run out and buy a big car? Julia Baird: He couldn't drive until he lived at Kenwood. He didn't have a license so he didn't buy a car. I don't know when he bought his Mini. but I know that Harry borrowed it for a time because John couldn't yet drive (Giuliano. Lost Int. p. 315).

•They was some tension with Rory Storm when Storm reneged on a promise to lend John some money in Hamburg to buy a new guitar (Clayson, p 38).

•Reporter: Would you ever have your own record company?
John: We would never start our own label. It's too much trouble you know.
Larry Parnes booked the Beatles for October 1960 on a two-week tour with Johnny Gentle. Mr. Parnes stated that he got a call from John on the opening day of the tour asking, "Where's the bloody money?".

•On an early questionnaire: John wrote "money and everything" under Ambition.

•In the early years, at least, the Beatles were in the 94% tax bracket (Brown, p. 110).

•After they returned from Hamburg Paul took a delivery job for 7 pounds a week to earn extra money for Christmas and John stayed in bed all day and slept (Brown, p. 48).

•Peter Brown discussing on night in the late 50’s: John arrived home in the middle of the night and had to throw stones at Mimi’s bedroom window to wake her. When she answered the door, John just pushed in right past her and said, “Pay the taxi, Mimi”. “Where’s your hundred pounds a week!” she shouted at him. John had promised her savings at the end of the Hamburg trip. He turned and sighed, exhausted. “Just like you, Mimi,” he said, “to go on about one hundred pounds a week when you know I’m tired”.