12/11/2023 0 Comments Yellow submarine lyrics uncle albert![]() ![]() His music was 'Muzak’ the 'freaks’ had been right in saying Paul was dead his best work was far behind him and even his doe-eyed good looks would only distract the public from his shallow talent for 'a year or two’. The vengeful lyric accused Paul of living with 'straights’ buffing the ego of the king who, with an irony surely not lost on Lennon, was utterly controlled by his wife-cum-mother-figure. 'How Do You Sleep?’ attempted to demolish McCartney’s character. The deceptively laidback rocker ‘How Do You Sleep?’, from his Imagine album, released in October 1971, was a swift and hateful response to what John perceived as Paul’s cryptic digs at him and Yoko in ‘Too Many People’ and ‘3 Legs’ from Ram, released only four months earlier. In the meantime, over the summer, Lennon had sharpened his blade for what would be regarded as his deepest and most vicious stab at McCartney. paul mccartney the beatles Ram too many people how do you sleep imagine for you were in my song Tell me why why why do you make me so sad so sad I love you Did I ever open up my heart and let you look inside? You only give me your funny paper that Paul and John business I'm not a homosexual or we could have had a homosexual relationship macca 3rd verse 1971 solo 2007 quote my stuff We were oblivious to all those hidden messages. Then afterwards, you go, “Oh, but they were beetles.” To me they were just a couple of little ladybirds or insects or something, y’know. A photograph of two beetles shagging! I mean, that had to get on the cover. You go, “Oh yeah, of course, that must have seemed like that.” It was just a really funny shot. Things like that seem so obvious afterwards. How could I persuade two beetles to shag each other for a joke? It’s not possible.īut you must have known when you put that shot on the album… Then, of course, there was the infamous picture on the back cover art or Ram of two beetles When it all turned mean on the business front, we were at each other’s throat, y’know. So it was a very, very strange turnaround. But we’d been really tight mates since about 16 or something. – although you wouldn’t have called it that then. I was just really sad, y’know, cos we’d loved each other He accused you of living with “straights” and writing “Muzak”. The joke was, “Very well.” That was the one thing, I was sleeping very well, cos I was in the countryside. He then responded with the vitriolic How Do You Sleep?, from Imagine… Well, it was only one track, Too Many People. Your second, Ram (1971), featured snipes at Lennon about his “preaching”… The resentments of the split spilled over into each of the ex-Beatles’ solo albums. ![]()
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