10 “1974: der Countdown für 1984 hat begonnen” – Merkur, vol. 28, no. 10, 1974.

11 “It is a shock to realize” – Richard N. Farmer, The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Foreseeable Future (David McKay Co., Inc., 1973), p. vii.

12 “Never before in history” – Jerome Tuccille, Who’s Afraid of 1984? (Arlington House, 1975), p. 3.

13 “The term Orwellian” – Burgess, 1985, p. 18.

14 “the most famous” – Nicholas von Hoffman, “1984: Here Today, Here Tomorrow?”, Washington Post, June 17, 1974.

15 “If he had lived” – Mary McCarthy, “The Writing on the Wall”, New York Review of Books, January 30, 1969.

16 “if he does not set down his thoughts” – Sonia Orwell, “Unfair to George”, Nova, June/July 1969.

17 Even as the ultra-McCarthyite John Birch Society– see Lucas, The Betrayal of Dissent, p. 39.

18 “a fink” – Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Alison Press, 1984), p. 42.

19 “this trash can’t withstand the storms” – Bruce Franklin, “The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire”, in Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter (eds.), The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English (Pantheon Books, 1972), p. 116.

20 “the common man” – Omnibus: George Orwell: The Road to the Left (BBC, 1971).

21 “Oh, where will you be” – Spirit, “1984” (Ode Records, 1969).

22 “We don’t want no Big Brother scene” – John Lennon, “Only People”, Mind Games (Apple, 1973).

23 “If we don’t get our thing together” – Rare Earth, “Hey Big Brother” (Rare Earth, 1971).

24 one of Lee Harvey Oswald’s favourite books– See The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964).

25 “it was almost impossible” – The Prisoner File (Channel 4, 1984).

26 “the way we’re being made into ciphers” – Warner Troyer interviews Patrick McGoohan for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

27 “the holiday camp, the doodle-bug” – Orwell, Review of The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus, Observer, January 14, 1945, CW XVII, 2604, p. 21.

28 “Questions Are a Burden to Others” etc. – The Prisoner (ITV, 1967–1968).

29 “You still have a choice!” – The Prisoner, “A Change of Mind.”

30 “If you insist on living a dream” – The Prisoner, “Dance of the Dead.”

31 “Number Two: It doesn’t matter which side runs the Village” – The Prisoner, “The Chimes of Big Ben.”

32 “usefully divert the violence of youth” etc. – Privilege (dir. Peter Watkins, 1967).

33 “Two superstars of their time” – Quoted in Peter Doggett, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (Bodley Head, 2011), p. 254.

34 “I could have been Hitler in England” – Cameron Crowe, “Ground Control to Davy Jones”, Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976.

35 “You always felt you were in 1984” – Steve Malins, “Duke of Hazard”, Vox, October 1995.

36 “For a person who married” and “To be quite honest” – Ben Edmonds, “Bowie Meets the Press: Plastic Man or Godhead of the Seventies?”, Circus, April 27, 1976.

37 “a backward look at the sixties and seventies” – Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie (Titan, 2011), p. 333.

38 “I had in my mind” and “staggered through” – Ibid., 68.

39 “That was our world” – Paul Du Noyer, “Contact”, Mojo, no. 104, July 2002.

40 “not, in my view, a very good novel” – Burgess, p. 91.

41 “It is better to have our streets” – Ibid., p. 93.

42 “Rats the size of cats” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 54.

43 “Oh dress yourself my urchin one” – David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (RCA, 1974).

44 “a heavy vibe” – Buckley, p. 185.

45 “the warnings from right and left” and “It is very difficult” – Eder, “Battle of Britain, 1974.”

46 “conceptualizes the vision” – Quoted in Doggett, p. 211.

47 “Power, Nuremburg” – Quoted in Pegg, p. 555.

48 “World Assembly building” – Sketch for Hunger City film, 1974, reprinted in David Bowie Is (V&A Publishing, 2013), p. 135.

49 “diabolical” – Richard Cromelin, “David Bowie: The Darling of the Avant-Garde”, Phonograph Record, January 1972.

50 “Really I’m a very one-track person” – Robert Hilburn, “Bowie Finds His Voice!”, Melody Maker, September 14, 1974.

51 “media artist” – Cameron Crowe, Playboy Interview, Playboy, September 1976.

52 “a very medieval, firm-handed” – Crowe, “Ground Control to Davy Jone.s”

53 “You’ve got to have an extreme right front” – Anthony O’Grady, “Dictatorship: The Next Step?”, NME, August 23, 1975.

54 “my whole life would be transformed” – Buckley, p. 231.

55 “a theatrical observation” – Quoted in ibid., p. 253.

56 “a formidable vigilante group” and “We are not Fascists” – Daily Express, February 1, 1974.

57 “committed to a left-wing programme” – “Firm Action for a Fair Britain”, Conservative Party general election manifesto, February 1974.

58 “scrubbing our minds clean” – Andy Beckett, Pinochet in Piccadilly (Faber & Faber, 2003), p. 173.

59 “more open-minded” – Quoted in ibid., p. 84.

60 “All right” – Quoted in ibid., p. 85.

61 “the only outcome” – Quoted in Dominic Sandbrook, Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979 (Allen Lane, 2012), p. 129.

62 “Today, because of the strikes” – Maugham, pp. 31–32.

63 “the Communist Trojan horse” and “Perhaps the country might choose” – Quoted in Beckett, p. 196.

64 “the militants of the neo-Marxist left” – Lord Chalfont, “Could Britain Be Heading for a Military Takeover?”, London Times, August 5, 1974.

65 “apprehensive patriots” – Dorril and Ramsay, p. 265.

66 “Although I