McCartney Times

Once the wool capital of the world and the current cultural capital of the United Kingdom, Bradford is a city I feel privileged to call home; for all its flaws and negative portrayal in the press, this ‘city of dreams’ certainly has a lot to offer. So why, then, did John Lennon seem to have such a vendetta against it? Perhaps more so than any of his Beatles comrades, Lennon was always unapologetically outspoken. From his apparently outrageous claim that the Merseyside ‘Mop Tops’ were “more popular than Jesus” during the height of Beatlemania, to his subsequent years spent lying in bed in New York City advocating for peace and love. Seemingly, though, that hippie-ish attitude did not extend to the songwriter’s view of proud northern industrial cities, like Bradford.

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