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Home Actor John Lennon HD Photos and Wallpapers December 2023 John Lennon Instagram - I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵 The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter ‘I am he as you are he as we are all together’ and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things. So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko. I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren. Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children’s chant – ‘Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick’ – That was a Liverpool kids song. I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ or putting all your faith in one idol. It was ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles’ work or anybody’s work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious.

John Lennon Instagram – I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵 The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter ‘I am he as you are he as we are all together’ and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things. So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko. I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren. Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children’s chant – ‘Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick’ – That was a Liverpool kids song. I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ or putting all your faith in one idol. It was ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles’ work or anybody’s work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious.

John Lennon Instagram - I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵 The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter ‘I am he as you are he as we are all together’ and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things. So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko. I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren. Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children’s chant – ‘Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick’ – That was a Liverpool kids song. I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ or putting all your faith in one idol. It was ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles’ work or anybody’s work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious.

John Lennon Instagram – I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵
The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter ‘I am he as you are he as we are all together’ and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things.

So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko.

I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren.

Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children’s chant – ‘Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick’ – That was a Liverpool kids song.

I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ or putting all your faith in one idol.

It was ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles’ work or anybody’s work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions.

People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious. | Posted on 14/Nov/2023 14:59:35

John Lennon Instagram – HELP! 🔴 Yes. That’s mine. I wrote it. It was getting hard to be someone then. I was grossly overweight and needed help and only one critic/reviewer ever spotted it and it was Al Aronowitz in the New York Post. He said ‘Johnny’ or whatever he was calling me, ‘is crying out for help.’ And I didn’t realise that I was at the time. I was just writing a song for the movie. I wrote it ‘Bam! Bam!’ like that, and got the single. It was really getting weird then. The whole Beatles thing was just beyond comprehension and I was eating and drinking like a pig and I was fat as a pig, dissatisfied with myself and subconsciously crying for help. It was like the Fat Elvis period. You see the movie, he’s very fat, very insecure and completely loss of self. I’m singing about when I was younger and all the rest of it. Now the positive thing is, yes, yes, I’m very positive. I also go through deep depressions where I’d like to jump out the window, you know? I am an amazingly emotional person. It’s becoming easier to deal with as I get older and I realise, I try – I don’t know whether control is the right word – or I’ve grown up a little, or you calm down a little but the swings and the motion from ecstatic highs to suicidal depressions are actually physically and mentally wearing and I’ve always had it, all my life. I remember Maureen Cleave, a writer – the one who did the famous ‘We’re more popular than Jesus’ story in the Evening Standard – asked me, ‘Why don’t you ever write songs with more than one syllable?’ So in ‘Help!’ there are two- or three-syllable words and I very proudly showed them to her and she still didn’t like them. I was insecure then, and things like that happened more than once. I never considered it before. So after that I put a few words with three syllables in, but she didn’t think much of them when I played it to her, anyway. I don’t like the recording too much; we did it too fast, trying to be commercial… I might do ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Help!’ again, because I like them and I can sing them.
John Lennon Instagram – FROM ME TO YOU. 🔴 The night Paul and I wrote ‘From Me To You’, we were on the Helen Shapiro tour, on the coach, travelling from York to Shrewsbury (28 Feb 1963). We weren’t taking ourselves seriously – just fooling around on the guitar – when we began to get a good melody line, and we really started to work at it. Before that journey was over, we’d completed the lyric, everything. I think the first line was mine and we took it from there. What puzzled us was why we’d thought of a name like ‘From Me To You’. It had me thinking when I picked up the NME to see how we were doing in the charts. Then I realised – we’d got the inspiration from reading a copy on the coach. Paul and I had been talking about one of the letters in the ‘From You To Us’ column. We were looking to write the next single after ‘She Loves You.’ It was getting pretty hard to top each single. We’d already written ‘Thank You Girl’ as the follow-up to ‘Please Please Me’. This new number was to be the B-side. We were so pleased with it, we knew we just had to make it the A-side. It was far bluesier than that when we wrote it. You know, the notes, you could rearrange it pretty funky. We nearly didn’t do it because it was too bluesy. But by the time we’d finished it and George Martin had scored it with harmonica it was all right. I’d played a lot of harmonica, mouth organ, really, it was. And so we did those numbers and so we started using it on ‘Love Me Do’. We used to work out arrangements and we just used it and then we stuck it on ‘Please Please Me’ and then we stuck it on ‘From Me To You’. I remember it was Paul’s idea, or was that ‘From Me to You’ where instead of singing ‘I Love You’ that we’d have a third party passing a message on to someone else. And that kind of little detail is apparent in his work, where he will write a story. I’m more inclined to just write about myself. The ‘Ooh!’ was taken from the Isley Brothers ‘Twist and Shout’ which we stuck in everything, ‘From Me to You’, ‘She Loves You’, they all had that ‘Ooh!’. That was a combination written song, it was not a song that was written individually. It was created together, singing into each other’s notes.

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