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"'''Glass Onion'''" is a song by [[The Beatles]] from ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' (also known as ''The White Album'') primarily written by [[John Lennon]] and credited to [[Lennon-McCartney]]. The song is a response to those who attempted to find hidden meanings in Beatle songs, and references "[[I Am the Walrus]], "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]", "[[There's a Place]]", "[[I'm Looking Through You]]", "[[Within You Without You]]", "[[Lady Madonna]]", "[[The Fool on the Hill]]", and "[[Fixing a Hole]]". |
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The song's "The Walrus was [[Paul McCartney|Paul]]" lyric is both a reference to "I Am the Walrus" and Lennon saying "something nice to Paul" in response to changes in their relationship at that time.<ref name="wenner1p87">{{cite book |first=Jann S |last=Wenner |authorlink=Jann Wenner |title=Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in [[Rolling Stone]] magazine) |year=2000 |pages=87 |publisher=Verso |location=London |isbn=1-85984-600-9}}</ref> Later, the line was interpreted as a "clue" in the "[[Paul is dead]]" [[urban legend]] that alleged McCartney died in [[1966]] during the recording of ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' and was replaced by a [[look-alike]] and [[sound-alike]]. |
The song's "The Walrus was [[Paul McCartney|Paul]]" lyric is both a reference to "I Am the Walrus" and Lennon saying "something nice to Paul" in response to changes in their relationship at that time.<ref name="wenner1p87">{{cite book |first=Jann S |last=Wenner |authorlink=Jann Wenner |title=Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in [[Rolling Stone]] magazine) |year=2000 |pages=87 |publisher=Verso |location=London |isbn=1-85984-600-9}}</ref> Later, the line was interpreted as a "clue" in the "[[Paul is dead]]" [[urban legend]] that alleged McCartney died in [[1966]] during the recording of ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' and was replaced by a [[look-alike]] and [[sound-alike]]. |
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"Glass Onion" is a song by The Beatles from The Beatles (also known as The White Album) primarily written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon-McCartney. The song is a response to those who attempted to find hidden meanings in Beatle songs, and references "I Am the Walrus, "Strawberry Fields Forever", "There's a Place", "I'm Looking Through You", "Within You Without You", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool on the Hill", and "Fixing a Hole".
The song's "The Walrus was Paul" lyric is both a reference to "I Am the Walrus" and Lennon saying "something nice to Paul" in response to changes in their relationship at that time.[1] Later, the line was interpreted as a "clue" in the "Paul is dead" urban legend that alleged McCartney died in 1966 during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike.
According to Lennon, "Glass Onion" was a throwaway song, much like "I Am the Walrus":
I threw the line in—'the Walrus was Paul'—just to confuse everybody a bit more. It could have been 'The fox terrier is Paul.' I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledegook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that.[2]
This is the first track on the White Album to feature Ringo Starr on drums. Starr had left the band briefly, so McCartney drummed on "Back in the USSR" and "Dear Prudence".
Personnel
- John Lennon – double-tracked vocal, acoustic guitar
- Paul McCartney – bass, piano, recorder
- George Harrison – lead guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine
- George Martin – string arrangement
- Henry Datyner – violin
- Eric Bowie – violin
- Norman Lederman – violin
- Ronald Thomas – violin
- John Underwood – viola
- Keith Cummings – viola
- Eldon Fox – cello
- Reginald Kilby – cello
- Credits per Ian MacDonald[3]
Notes
- ^ Wenner, Jann S (2000). Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in Rolling Stone magazine). London: Verso. p. 87. ISBN 1-85984-600-9.
- ^ The Beatles (2000). Anthology. pp. page 306.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised Edition ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). pp. 311–314. ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
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