The hidden meaning behind classic Beatles songs
In the 1980s, songs came under scrutiny for sharing hidden messages with the impressionable youth. Bands like Judas Priest came under fire from the Christian right for apparently slipping in subliminal satanic messages urging young fans to commit suicide. Their frontman, Rob Halford, sensibly pointed out the rational argument: why the hell would we want to kill off our fanbase, if anything, the subliminal messages would be urging fans to spread the word and buy more records.
Sadly, The Beatles also met the wrath of dark misconception when Charles Manson cooked up a disaster off the back of ‘Helter Skelter’. Sometimes, however, the messages are not simply in the overstimulated minds of heretics, and they hide in plain sight. If Bob Dylan brought a new sense of irony to lyric writing, a lot of other acts took his double meanings and obfuscated them in weird ways. The Beatles were huge proponents of this depth-delivering technique.
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