McCartney Times

January 27th, 1970 was a big day for John Lennon. Earlier in the month, Lennon and Yoko Ono visited Ono’s former partner, Tony Cox, for the New Year. While there, the adults discussed the idea that karma can be an immediate punishment rather than a lifelong reckoning. Lennon took the idea to heart when, on the 27th, he woke up, went to his piano, and wrote what became ‘Instant Karma!’.“It just came to me,” Lennon told David Sheff in 1980. “Everybody was going on about karma, especially in the Sixties. But it occurred to me that karma is instant as well as it influences your past life or your future life. There really is a reaction to what you do now. That’s what people ought to be concerned about. Also, I’m fascinated by commercials and promotion as an art form. I enjoy them. So the idea of instant karma was like the idea of instant coffee: presenting something in a new form. I just liked it.”

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