On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 7:05:35 AM UTC-4, Norbert K wrote:
> On Thursday, October 3, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, saki wrote:
> > >On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:52:46 GMT, Eric Johnson
> > ><Eric.J...@ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Say Lennon did mix in 'everybodys' fucked up' at the end of IATW, which
> > >>was a big enough public supposition at the time the song came out that
> > >>the Beatles had to deny it to the press.
> >
> > Just curious. Can you cite any such denial? I've never heard this one
> > before and would like to know where the denial was printed, just for
> > future reference.
> >
> > Many people take this for "Everybody smoke pot", which is also not
> > what it says.
> >
> > >>Would any of the Beatles, especially Lennon, admit it?
> >
> > Well, what you're saying then is that whether they confirm or deny it,
> > it makes no difference to the accuracy of the lyrical transcription.
> > :-)
> >
> > So how do you find out for sure? Consult one of the Mike Sammes
> > Singers, perhaps, who sang this passage in the song?
> >
> > >>No, because then the song would be
> > >>censored, or have to be remixed and reissued, etc.
> >
> > But the song already mentioned "knickers", which got Auntie Beeb's own
> > knickers in a twist. :-) The Beeb was pretty overwrought about things
> > they thought were lyrically salacious or inappropriate. They didn't
> > like "A Day In The Life" because Paul sang about going upstairs to
> > have a smoke...which the BBC assumed, in its wisdom, was about pot
> > smoking (again, it was not). Yet the line "I'd love to turn you on"
> > was apparently not the cause of the BBC's banning of the song...go
> > figure!
> >
> > >>I think the Beatles,
> > >>in their heyday, were arrogant and talented enough to try and slip a lot
> > >>of stuff by their unsuspecting, dim witted public with a wink and a nod,
> > >>and did! And I think it's great!!
> >
> > They did less than you think. It appears the Fabs thought more highly
> > of their art than to use it constantly as a massive in-joke. Most of
> > the time they were trying to communicate to us feelings and
> > philosophies on quite a higher plane. If you're missing that aspect of
> > their music, you may want to listen again. You can never hear the
> > Beatles too many times, IMHO. :-)
> > --
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> > "Though I've said it all before, I will say it more and more...."
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> > sa...@evolution.bchs.uh.edu * dl...@midway.uchicago.edu
> Don't forget the excerpts from King Lear which add quite a big to the weirdness of the song.

....I have to say that I once read (somewhere) that Harrison want to add something, something everyone does, to the tail of the song, and got in the chant "get f*cked, get f*cked, everybody get f*cked."