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PART TWO NEW YORK CITY

It was July, 1971 in New York City. We were having our morning coffee in
a hotel room facing the park. Two things were upsetting John . One was
he had learned that his manager suggested that the other Beatles use the
same bank that he used. A big faux pas on the part of the manager as far
as John was concerned. To John, that meant that he was not special to
the manager. He was just part of the package deal. The other was that
George was doing a Bangladesh Concert at Madison Square Garden, and
because of that, many musicians from India had been put up in the same
hotel as us. John had so many years of being bundled together with the
other Beatles in a hotel, with hangers-on of the famous and near famous,
that he was particularly sensitive to those situations. “It’s getting
mighty crowded,” he said, wiggling his nose.