internet beatles recording index: Composer's Notes on Happiness Is A Warm Gun

internet beatles recording index: Composer's Notes on Happiness Is A Warm Gun

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  • John Lennon: Oh, I like that, one of my best, I had forgotten about that. Oh, I love it. I think it's a beautiful song. I like all the different things that are happening in it. Like "God" [another Lennon song], I had put together some three sections of different songs, it was meant to be - it seemed to run through all the different kinds of rock music.

    George Martin had a book on guns which he had told me about - I can't remember - or I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said "Happiness Is A Warm Gun". It was a gun magazine, that's it: I read it, thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means that you just shot something.

  • John Lennon (in 1972) - "Thay all said it was about drugs, but it was more about rock 'n roll than drugs. It's sort of a history of rock 'n roll... I don't know why people said it was about the needle in heroin. I've only seen somebody do something with a needle once, and I don't like to see it at all."
  • John Lennon (in 1980) - "A gun magazine was sitting around and the cover was the picture of a smoking gun. The title of the article, which I never read, was 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the idea of happiness after having shot somebody. Or some animal."
  • Paul McCartney: I think this is my favourite on 'The Beatles' album.

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