‘John Lennon was a true artist and put a lot of faith in taking his soul, stretching it out into a tune and some rhyming syllables and putting it to tape. One need only look at his favourite tunes from The Beatles to see that their common thread was that they were, according to him at least, all “real”. However, in perhaps his most obvious showing of perplexing duality, he also had a habit of throwing people off his true intentions. That mostly came in undermining his own material, shrugging off interpretations, and simply insisting that he didn’t take a good amount of his work with The Beatles seriously.When listeners began looking for clues in his songs, as they did for ‘I Am the Walrus’, Lennon himself started to get in on the game by writing an even more confusing follow-up, ‘Glass Onion’. It was his attempt to throw off the shackles of the band and refuse the labels that were being flung upon them at all spare moments.
Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music.
Creative Director at McCartney Studios
Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times
Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik
President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc.
Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel
Lives in Playa del Rey
From Kassel, Germany
Married to Ruth McCartney
‘John Lennon was a true artist and put a lot of faith in taking his soul, stretching it out into a tune and some rhyming syllables and putting it to tape. One need only look at his favourite tunes from The Beatles to see that their common thread was that they were, according to him at least, all “real”. However, in perhaps his most obvious showing of perplexing duality, he also had a habit of throwing people off his true intentions. That mostly came in undermining his own material, shrugging off interpretations, and simply insisting that he didn’t take a good amount of his work with The Beatles seriously.When listeners began looking for clues in his songs, as they did for ‘I Am the Walrus’, Lennon himself started to get in on the game by writing an even more confusing follow-up, ‘Glass Onion’. It was his attempt to throw off the shackles of the band and refuse the labels that were being flung upon them at all spare moments.
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