Table of Contents
Chapter 1 All Music Came from New Orleans 11
Chapter 2 Good Rockin' Tonight 13
Chapter 3 "It Was All His Fault Really" 19
Chapter 4 "Absolutely Terrible" 25
Chapter 5 The Greatest Show on Earth 27
Chapter 6 A Tour in the Works 31
Chapter 7 The Crew 35
Chapter 8 Chaos, Bedlam, and Hysteria 41
Chapter 9 Food Fights and Righteous Indignation 47
Chapter 10 "Ain't Got No Home" 51
Chapter 11 "I Plan to Do This Personally" 63
Chapter 12 Aunt Jane and the Summer of the Beatles 71
Chapter 13 The Teen Reporters 77
Chapter 14 "This Show Is Over!" 81
Chapter 15 The Beatles Are Here! No, Over There! 85
Chapter 16 Welcome to the Congress Inn 97
Chapter 17 "We Ice Skate" 101
Chapter 18 "You Look Like a Nice Fellow, Lord Mayor" 105
Chapter 19 Four Nice Chaps 119
Chapter 20 "We Want the Beatles!" 125
Chapter 21 Fats 129
Chapter 22 "'Ello, Mr. Domino" 133
Chapter 23 The Battle of New Orleans 137
Chapter 24 And So, My Love, I Must Go 157
Chapter 25 George Harris and the Locusts 161
Chapter 26 Money/Kansas City 167
Chapter 27 Fear of Flying 173
Chapter 28 Dear Lord Mayor 177
Chapter 29 There's a Place (City Hall) 189
Chapter 30 "With Love and Thanks, the Beatles" 193
Chapter 31 In My Life 199
Chapter 32 The Dark Horse 205
Chapter 33 Venus, Mars, and the Professor 211
Chapter 34 Fess Returns 219
Chapter 35 Go to the Mardi Gras 221
Epilogue Places I Remember 227
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 237
Bibliography 251
Index 254
