McCartney Times

There aren’t many revolutionaries quite like John Lennon. The Beatles man somehow once coupled a global protest with one of the longest lie-ins in history when he curled up with Yoko Ono for two week-long stints dubbed the Bed-ins for Peace. And when he wasn’t lying down for a good cause, he was lying down for pleasure, famously quipping, “Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.”

It was that same act of idleness that inspired a Beatles classic. And there’s a lesson in creative flow for all of us therein, sometimes you can’t force it. “I’d spent five hours that morning,” John Lennon told Playboy Magazine regarding the inception of ‘Nowhere Man’, “Trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down.”

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