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Keep that bastard Jew away from me.

John Lennon, in response to Elliot Mintz’s arrival. Lennon was drunkenly damaging property in L.A and May Pang, his assistant/partner, had called Mintz as she was concerned for Lennon’s safety. Mintz was Lennon’s close friend and confidant. 

The next morning, Lennon phoned Mintz to apologize:

In all the times I've known you, the very worst thing I could think of to say to you was that you were a bastard Jew. I guess I must really love you.

Source: Lennon by Ray Coleman.

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Ringo and Maureen Starr attend the "The Magic Christian" Los Angeles Premiere, January 1970

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John Lennon’s British Leyland Austin Maxi car, which he crashed in Scotland in July 1969 with Julian, Kyoko, and Yoko riding with him. This caused injury to Yoko’s back and required stiches for Yoko, Kyoko, and John (Julian escaped unharmed). The wrecked car was later brought to John and Yoko’s Tittenhurst Park estate where it was sat in the gardens.

“I didn’t know what to do, so I just let go of the steering wheel.” - John Lennon in The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz

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He was incredibly unhappy because of his estrangement from Yoko during the entire "lost weekend". It was the low point of his life. Three days after arriving [in L.A] , at 10 o'clock in the morning, he arrived outside my house shouting: "Wake up, wake up. I've been trying to get you on the phone." I was astonished to see him up so early. I asked: "How long have you been up?" He said: "I haven't been to sleep yet. Can you get Yoko on the phone for me?" He was having trouble with the phones and with the time difference between California and New York [where Yoko stayed]. I later asked him why he appeared so low, during that period, and he said he felt alienated, lost, and consistently unhappy, especially when he was drunk. It was a vicious circle: the more morose John became, the more he drank and the more depressed he became. And the worst thing I can say about my old friend John Lennon is that he was a lousy drinker. He just couldn't handle booze.

Elliot Mintz (John Lennon’s close friend and confidant.)

Source: Lennon by Ray Coleman

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Paul & Linda McCartney with Johnny & June Cash in Jamaica, 1980s

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George and Olivia Harrison at the BAFTAS, 1987

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John Lennon’s parody of Bob Dylan, during which he reads from a newspaper.

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John Lennon / Yoko Ono photo booth photos.

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Joan Baez with the Beatles, backstage at Candlestick Park 1966. 

She brought along 10-year-old family friend Naomi Marcus (pictured middle, third photo), who was given one of Ringo’s rings and John’s shirt as a keepsake (and who said her favorite was Ringo, after meeting him).

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Recording All Those Years Ago at Friar Park studio, November 1980

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After the screening of Let It Be (July 1969)

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George Harrison and Olivia Arias at the races, 1970s

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What is possibly the last pictures of John Lennon with Kyoko Chan Cox, Yoko Ono’s daughter from her second marriage with Tony Cox. This would’ve been April 1971 in Majorca, Spain.

After Yoko and Tony’s divorce, neither won sole custody. Yet Cox became increasingly reluctant to let Yoko and her new husband spend time with Kyoko, and finally refused to permit it at all.  For a year before the Lennons came to America, they had been chasing Mr. Cox and Kyoko around Europe. In Majorca, Spain, the Lennons caught up with them and spirited Kyoko off to their hotel; but Mr. Cox called the police, and a Spanish court gave the child back to him. The incident added to his fear that the Lennons wanted to take her away from him for good. After their failed visit to Majorca, Yoko was awarded permanent custody by the United States Virgin Islands court. But, the legal battle would go on as Tony joined a religious cult known as The Walk and refused to reveal Kyoko’s location or allow Yoko and John to visit. Kyoko was also taught by Tony that she was rescued from her mother, who “was involved in drugs and the occult” and “stood for corruption”. Yoko and John continued searching for Kyoko for much of the 1970s. Kyoko wouldn’t reunite with her mother until 1998. 

[From the 1980 Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono:]

ONO: "I lost Kyoko when she was about five...”

PLAYBOY: "What happened when she was five?"

ONO: "John and I got together and I separated from my ex-husband." (Tony Cox) "He took Kyoko away. It became a case of parent kidnapping and we tried to get her back..." 

LENNON: "...We chased him all over the world. God knows where he went. So if you're reading this, Tony, let's grow up about it. It's gone. We don't want to chase you anymore, because we've done enough damage... It was like we were after an escaped convict..."

ONO: "...She is totally frightened. There was a time in Spain when a lawyer and John thought that we should kidnap her."

LENNON: (sighing) "I was just going to commit hara-kiri first."

ONO: "And we did kidnap her and went to court. The court did a very sensible thing... the judge took her into a room and asked her which one of us she wanted to go with. Of course, she said Tony. We had scared her to death."

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Ringo Starr appears on NBC show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 27 January 1970.