Glass Onion
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| "Glass Onion" | ||
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| Song by the Beatles | ||
| from the album The Beatles | ||
| Released | 22 November 1968 | |
| Recorded | 11 September 1968 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:17 | |
| Label | Apple Records | |
| Writer(s) | Lennon-McCartney | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| The Beatles track listing | ||
| Dear Prudence (2 of disc 1) |
"Glass Onion" (3 of disc 1) |
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (4 of disc 1) |
| Love track listing | ||
| "Get Back" (2) |
"Glass Onion" (3) |
"Eleanor Rigby/Julia(transition)" (4)) |
"Glass Onion"[1] is a song by the Beatles from The Beatles (also known as The White Album) primarily written by John Lennon (albeit credited to Lennon-McCartney). The song is a response to those people who attempted to find hidden meanings in Beatle songs, and references "I Am the Walrus, "Strawberry Fields Forever", "There's a Place", "I'm Looking Through You", "Within You Without You", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool on the Hill", and "Fixing a Hole".
The song's "The Walrus was Paul" lyric is both a reference to "I Am the Walrus" and John "saying something nice to Paul" in response to changes in their relationship at that time.[2] Later, the line was interpreted as a "clue" in the "Paul is dead" urban legend that alleged Paul McCartney died in 1966 during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike.
According to Lennon, "Glass Onion" was a throwaway song, much like "I Am the Walrus". "I threw the line in—'the Walrus was Paul'—just to confuse everybody a bit more. It could have been 'The fox terrier is Paul.' I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledegook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that."[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Glass onion" is British slang for a monocle.
- ^ ; Wenner, Jann. Lennon Remembers, Straight Arrow Press, 1971.
- ^ The Beatles. Anthology, p. 306, 2000.
