Lennon how do you sleep meaning

Song name. Your interpretation. Email me when new interpretations are posted for How Do You Sleep? Your email address. John Lennon Song Meanings. Get a weekly email update We won't give out your email. The Parody Targets of Popular Music. Blood Ballads - 7 Songs about murder. Dictionary Dartboard - Songs with deliberately meaningless lyrics. Then resurrected but was sadly cut down. Well then go listen to the crickets, and any other bugs your heart may fancy.

Now go and enjoy the bug concert. Lots of artists have taken time off from producing music, it was just that back then John was one of the first. Have you got something against someone trying to have a family life away from show biz? Of course Macca has more hits, so far he has lived over 36 years longer than Lennon. Last of all, you omit in your comment any reference to the song on this particular page and the reasons why John responded to asides made by Paul on the Ram album. Have you got something against someone trying to have a family life outside of showbiz?

Not at all. Nothing wrong with anyone having or trying to have a family life outside of showbiz. Billions of people do so. I hate the song. It stinks. At least the lyrics do. The song is so beneath contempt, and John Lennon, who wanted the world to see him as a man striving toward peace, love, and understanding, none of which is found in this hate-filled diatribe of a song. I agree, Paul had a better post Beatles career. John really only had three great records and some good songs in between.

I would take Mind Games over any of those. I guess you were in a coma for these albums and hit singles, Did I forget to mention The Traveling Wilburys. Your comment is just wrong on every level. I am so tried of people saying that John took four to five years off to raise his son Sean with a Nanny! Should we book our heads to John? Producing Music. Did you read the rest of what D. Mitch wrote? Years after John and Paul made up, their fans are continuing the slag fest.

Hits and quality music is not necessarily the same thing. Wings was successful in its day but made largely forgettable music.

He wants to give fans what the want to hear. He stopped writing standards after the Beatles. Paul continued to make music and therefore sold more but John had made the best album that any of the four put out solo after the breakup as well as the best song.

There has never really been as revolutionary a figure for pop and rock music than John Lennon. How will I sleep tonight? John Lennon in later years put this attack on Paul McCartney in perspective ,which for us that are fans of both of them is a good thing. They were of course the greatest and most influential song writing partnership of the twentieth century and beyond. Great production work by Phil Spector. The horns even use the same figure in the chorus!! While John holds a sustained note.

Being a first-generation fan helps one remember how time passed thru phases and stages. But the modern perspective is indeed handy, as interviews and various puzzle-pieces have continually filled in the pictures:.

John may not have made his initial urges obvious by including cover images of 2 beetles waltzing together, But I believe that his inspiration originally came from conflicted feelings after a few years had passed. Lennon was rightly embarrassed about some of the sentiments in this song years later.

But it is no doubt a great track. It just has such an amazing,malevolent feel to it. Those strings are just awesome. That was him being childish and needing therapy to exorcise his demons. I love the music of the Beatles. There were messages to John on Ram that hit Lennon where he lived.

I believe what John said about it at the time. Not a single fan of that album can explain what those bizarre lyrics mean.

Lamest song ever. And screw George for participating on that song. Lennon WAS a pompous, self-congratulatory prick, talented or not. More than one song on it was controversial at the time one of them has an obviously controversial NOW title and subject matter. Nothing self-congratulatory in that either. Real music?! And great talents. Lennon was told to change original lyrics by Allen Klein. The song was going to be lawsuit against Lennon for libel.

Lennon original line,. The Beatles reuniting would have been a bad idea. Like most groups the Beatles were a family and as in many families there were sibling rivalries. Jealousy, side-taking, swapping sides, flaming rows, bitter words and periods of non-speaking, anddislike of the others spouses. Even Ringo who hated all the conflict was dragged into it. But in the end the truth is they love each other. It was ever thus, The Who, Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin and many more have all seen vicious words and rows between the members.

Generally they make up and even get back together. I do believe that the Beatles would have got back together but it would have been well past their days of maximim creativity. George made a brief comeback. Beatle people. John Lennon. John Lennon songs. He lived through it. The only thing that matters is how he and I feel about these things and not what the writer or commentator thinks about it.

Source: The Atlantic. Lennon used the negative energy built up during those months to blatantly slam his former best friend and undermine all of his achievements. The spiteful, cruel, and nasty lyrics were meant to completely degrade McCartney and emotionally harm him. While the majority of Beatles songs are credited to Lennon and McCartney as a songwriting team, Beatles historians have identified one or the other as the main songwriter -- and McCartney wrote plenty more than "Yesterday.

These were the kinds of harsh words that can bring down even the strongest of musicians. Source: YouTube. Harrison was shocked he was invited to the session since there still was heavy tension between the entire group, but was pleased to see Lennon was as jolly as ever to see him. This was probably because he was anyone else other than McCartney. Legendary pianist Nicky Hopkins hopped in on the piano, future Yes member Alan White accompanied them on drums, and Klaus Voorman provided the rhythm on bass.

It was obvious to everyone in the room who the subject of the song was. He took the song completely to heart analyzing every single word wondering if the way he was portrayed is really the kind of person he was.

However, a great deal of these lyrics were coming from Yoko Ono and Klein who were likely encouraging Lennon to dig as harshly as possible.