McCartney Times

One of the many beauties of The Beatles is that they became the biggest band in the history of man simply by studying the humble folks around them. From ‘Penny Lane’ to ‘Eleanor Rigby’, their hits were derived from looking out of a window. Even at their most complex and musically avant-garde, their songs still feel entirely relatable—extreme and otherworldly, but firmly rooted in the ‘every day’, like an alien filling out a V10 vehicle tax form to render their UFO space-worthy.It was these same mechanical grinds of modern capitalism that John Lennon mulled over in his barbed critique, ‘I’m Only Sleeping’. It’s the story of a fellow who wakes up and decides to stay in bed, almost preempting his bed-in for peace protest with Yoko Ono. However, there is a sense that the bed in question is on an estate in Liverpool rather than a luxury suite. Ironically, you could argue that the far quieter protest of some unknown member of the proletariat in ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ is one that governments would pay more mind to than John and Yoko’s joked about jaunt.

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