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	Music as Therapy: Lyrical Reflections of Abandonment in the music or John Lennon
		Another song that contains elements of abandonment, without the presence of Julia’s death, is “This Boy.” In spite of Lennon’s remarks that the lyrics mean nothing, the sentiment of the text rings loudly as a reaction to losing his mother to her second husband.
		One song that alludes to the loss of his mother, without mentioning her death, is “If I Fell.” In the song, John approaches a new relationship cautiously, tightly gripping the memory of being hurt previously.
		MacDonald states that the song is the first in which he “…embraces thoughts of death without stylizing them." In the text, Lennon states that he has many memories of friends and places, but among them all, none compares to the memory of his mother, whom he loved the most.
	homepage.mac.com /coltvalenti/iblog/C631812141/E162720464 (2753 words)

	Julia (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Julia" was written for John's mother Julia Lennon, who was killed by a drunk driver in 1958, when he was 17.
		On October 2, 2001, the song was performed by Sean Lennon (John's and Yoko's son) at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, as part of the Come Together - A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music concert special.
		"Julia" was written by John Lennon, and features Lennon on vocals and acoustic guitar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_(song) (302 words)

	Let It Be (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[1] (John Lennon was allegedly critical of the song upon McCartney's introduction, assuming that 'Mother Mary' was merely an allusion to Christianity.) However, whether consciously or not, the words 'let it be' quote Mary’s words to Gabriel in the Gospel of Luke 1:38.
		Although the song's lyrics are interpreted by some as being a hymn to the Virgin Mary, the song was written as a tribute by McCartney after he had a dream about his mother, Mary, who died when he was fourteen.
		In April 1970 Phil Spector remixed the song for the album Let It Be.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Let_It_Be_(song) (790 words)

	Tonic's Ultra Beatles Page - Albums (Please, Please Me)
		Please, Please Me: This song may have originated from a 1932 Bing Crosby song that John's mother, Julia, used to sing to him as a child.
		This song was written backstage at the King's Hall, Glebe Street by John and Paul on Jan. 26,1963.
		John and Paul had difficulty writing the lyrics for this song and were desperate to finish it.
	www.nondot.org /~tonic/Beatles/Please.html (743 words)

	John Lennon's murder explained
		Lennon himself gave special significance to this song because it came to him almost complete, in the middle of the night - it came out of nowhere, like a message.
		Chapman recognised that Lennon was sending him signals: the chiming bell of "Just Like Starting Over" on the 1980 "Double Fantasy" album, was a backward echo of the sombre funeral bell on the "Mother" track on the 1970 "Plastic Ono Band" album.
		From its inception, it was a special song for Lennon -
	www.geocities.com /dp2spirits (1406 words)

	Paul McCartney
		Not long afterwards, a mutual friend brought him to see John Lennon, who was performing the song Be Bop A Lula at the Woolton village fete with his band The Quarrymen.
		In his early teens, shortly after the premature death of his mother from breast cancer, McCartney's interest in music became more prominent and he began making his first attempts at songwriting; it was during this time that he became friends with George Harrison, a schoolmate and fellow aspiring musician who shared the same bus route.
		McCartney was the first of the four to be given somewhat of a 'solo' spotlight, the single Yesterday featuring a backing orchestra and none of the other members of the band; this song would eventually become one of the most covered compositions in popular music.
	www.nndb.com /people/070/000023001 (1887 words)

	BeatleLinks Fab Forum - Beatles' Buddy Recalls 'A Hard Days Night'
		[Victor Spinetti with George Harrison and John Lennon (front) in 'A Hard Day's Night'] "He came over and we reminisced and we talked about John, about Linda, and Grahams, a great, great friend of mine who died of cancer at the same time," Spinetti recalled.
		Having veteran British stage and screen actor Victor Spinetti in "A Hard Day's Night" had to have been the easiest decision the Beatles ever had to make in their lives -- or, at least the easiest decision George Harrison's mother ever had to make.
		[Victor Spinetti in 'A Hard Day's Night'] While the Beatles grew both personally and professionally over the years, Spinetti said the one constant over the years is that the lads from Liverpool always remained honest and humble.
	www.beatlelinks.net /forums/printthread.php?t=8522 (1426 words)

	WhatzUp
		Lennon Murphy (named after famous Beatle John by her mother) began writing songs at the tender age of seven.
		In the first single, “Brake of Your Car,” Lennon screams, “I’m caught between your lies and my dreams.” Stylistically, the song is similar to Korn or the band Garbage.
		Lennon does channel quite a bit of raw emotion and hurt into her lyrics.
	www.whatzup.com /Music/cd041102c.html (359 words)

	Beyond the Sea Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		It was at a televised all-star tribute to John Lennon at New York's Radio City Music Hall, where the Oscar-winning actor belted out a mean version of the oddly chosen song "Mind Games." The stunned audience clapped wildly, giving Spacey a standing ovation for his talent-revealing-but-rather-perplexing performance.
		Of course this only leads to a zestier lust for life, and for song, and he dutifully practices singing, dancing, and piano with his bawdy, loving ex-vaudevillian mother (played by Brenda Bleythn), who proclaims he'll be bigger than Sinatra.
		As a song and dance man, however, he's strictly a glorified amateur whose need to be center stage exceeds his musical abilities.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139475 (1679 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com Discussion Forum - Let it be
		While the song can be seen by some as religious, it's a phrase that his mother used when Paul was young.
		On the other hand, I'm moved by the lyrics of "Let it be" that he co-wrote with Paul McCartney (though I suspect the writing here was more Paul's work than John's).
		But Lennon's lyrics could be, and I think are, misleading for many.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?topic_id=6309 (929 words)

	Tie Your Mother Down - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later on, Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury encouraged him to keep the line, similar to what happened between John Lennon and Paul McCartney with the line "the movement you need is on your shoulder" from the Beatles song Hey Jude.
		Tie Your Mother Down is a Queen song, written by guitarist Brian May, which features one of rock music's most recognizable guitar riffs.
		He composed the riff on a Spanish guitar, and woke up early one morning and played it while singing "tie your mother down," a line he considered a joke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tie_Your_Mother_Down (310 words)

	Rolling Stone : That's All Right, Mama
		John Lennon broke from his rocker persona to pen this tender homage to his mother, who was fatally hit by a car when he was fifteen.
		On this song, his very own "Mama Tried," hip-hop's late poet laureate remembers his mother's trials raising him and assures her that no matter the outcome, he knows she did her best.
		Although the song's open-ended greeting card sentiment could easily be about romantic love, Presley's inner circle has long maintained that on this track his heart belonged to mama Gladys, who had passed three years earlier.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5938694/thats_all_right_mama (1382 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History
		On the albums "Sgt. Pepper" and "Magical Mystery Tour" (both 1967), John Lennon's lyrics began to turn increasingly surreal ("I Am The Walrus"), as they are influenced by drugs, Eastern culture, and an obvious personal liberation reflected in the liberation of his artistic statement.
		On this album, John penned the famous feminist statement "Woman Is The Nigger of the World" ("We make her bear and raise our children, and then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen.
		The 1970 "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" album was a case in point.
	irelandsown.net /lennon.html (1382 words)

	Mean Mr. Mustard by The Beatles Songfacts
		On the train at the beginning of the film when John ask's him why he was with them he says "well, my mother thought the trip would do him good".
		John Lennon wrote most of this when he was in India at the Maharishi's meditation camp with the other Beatles.
		Lennon got the idea for this from a newspaper story about a mean man who hid his money.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=201 (491 words)

	John Lennon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Years later, Lennon wrote the songs "Julia", "Mother" and "My Mummy's Dead" regarding his mother, as well as naming his firstborn son, Julian, after her.
		It is generally acknowledged that Lennon slapped his first wife, Cynthia, at least once in the early years of their relationship, as confirmed in her book, "John".
		John Lennon, early 1970; his Beatle locks shorn - as were Yoko's - for a charity auction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lennon (4197 words)

	village voice > music > Vijay Iyer's Reimagining by Francis Davis
		Vijay Iyer's Reimagining ends with and takes its title from—sort of—a solo piano rumination on a John Lennon song I never liked to begin with, then came to despise through oversaturation in the days following Lennon's murder.
		I didn't buy the utopian bit; the real Lennon—the slain idol I mourned and wanted the media to acknowledge—was the one who surfaced on "Run for Your Life" and "Girl," the angry John of "God," "Mother," and the Rolling Stone interviews.
		Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa sure are tough-minded—and also Indian Americans
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0520,davis1,64045,22.html (708 words)

	CBS News Yoko's Gay Wed Dance Anthem July 9, 2004 04:22:54
		The song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him," included on her last album with John Lennon before he was killed in 1980, was also retooled into another version: "Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her."
		One of her gay friends told her that his mother had invoked the title of Ono's old song— "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" — in an attempt to steer him toward heterosexuality, she said.
		Ono, whose avant-garde music was often ridiculed by fans of Lennon and the Beatles, said that's given her a connection to the gay and lesbian community.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/07/08/entertainment/main628295.shtml (632 words)

	The Lovely Cynthia Lennon Site - Cynthia's Story...
		Cynthia has written a book "A twist of Lennon", and has been involved in many other ventures, including recording a song in the 90's a remake of Mary Hopkins song "Those Were The Days"...
		Her mother wanted Cynthia to go Canada with her, as she was worried about her daughter, as by now John was playing in a band and was traveling, so Cynthia did not see him that much, as the band was the "Beatles".
		Cynthia loved John to the point that she changed her hair color, and let it grow long, and her style of dress to tight black sweaters and very short skirts.
	cynthialennon.tripod.com /cynthias_story.htm (632 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Rush & Molloy: Heart of Stone
		The daughter of Mick Jagger and the son of John Lennon took a shine to each other in March at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dinner at the Waldorf (even though Lennon was also seen there kissing actress Leelee Sobieski, 21).
		Later, when Elizabeth brought him around the London home of her mom, Jerry Hall, Lennon lead a sing-along of his father's song "Imagine."
		Willem Dafoe is wasting no time setting up house now that he's split with Elizabeth LeCompte, the mother of his son, Jack.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/194463p-168032c.html (1624 words)

	channel4.com - Real Lives - Cliff Richard
		The song, rapidly promoted to the A-side, was the first British rock-and-roll record, and has been cited as an inspiration by musicians including John Lennon (five days Cliff's senior).
		His mother in particular supported Cliff, both in his career as a teen idol and in his conviction that getting married would damage it – and that sex outside marriage was immoral.
		In July 1958 Cliff Richard and The Drifters recorded their first single, Schoolboy Crush, a song which had already been a hit in the US for Bobby Helms.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/R/real_lives/cliff.html (1061 words)

	CBS News Yoko's Gay Wed Dance Anthem July 9, 2004 04:21:44
		The song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him," included on her last album with John Lennon before he was killed in 1980, was also retooled into another version: "Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her."
		One of her gay friends told her that his mother had invoked the title of Ono's old song — "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" — in an attempt to steer him toward heterosexuality, she said.
		"Hell in Paradise," a remix of a song she originally recorded in 1986, is No. 5 on this week's dance music chart in Billboard magazine.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/07/08/entertainment/main628295.shtml (1061 words)

	Happiness Is a Warm Gun by The Beatles Songfacts
		The first one beigns with the phrase "She's not a girl...", and from there goes to the "Mother Superior jump the gun", and ends with The Beatles singing the title and John Lennons sarcastic tirade about how good it feels to hold a gun.
		The line "Happiness is a warm gun" was taken off the cover of a gun magazine, and John thought it was so outrageous he used it for the song.
		The title came from an article in a gun magazine John Lennon saw.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.lasso?id=154 (2663 words)

	The Rip Post
		As Yoko herself put it, in explaining why she gave the demo of the song to the three remaining Beatles in the first place: "I thought, this was a song which would release people from their sorrow of losing John.
		Or if you want to get ugly about it, compare solo McCartney's "Silly Love Longs" with oh, Lennon's "Crippled Inside." And for the record, so to speak, far too many of McCartney's solo songs are lyrically not even up to "moon/June/spoon" par.
		This is apparently a very lovely lady who grew up with normal aspirations of the era---to be a good wife and mother.
	www.riprense.com (15637 words)

	Geometry.Net - Celebrities: Mccartney Paul
		On Beatles records, the credit was "Lennon-McCartney", on his own records it was "Paul McCartney and John Lennon".
		McCartney was born at Walton Hospital, located in northern Liverpool near his teenage home, where his mother had worked as a nurse.
		1, Paul McCartney Songs and Albums I ll give you the song, you tell me on which McCartney album it appeared.
	www4.geometry.net /celebrities/mccartney_paul.html (1453 words)

	Queen Elizabeth Hotel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hotel reached worldwide fame when John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who had been refused entry into the United States, conducted their Bed-In and recorded the song Give Peace a Chance in Room 1742 at the hotel, between May 26 and June 2, 1969.
		Many famous guests have stayed there, including Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Charles de Gaulle, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Perry Como, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
		Queen Elizabeth Hotel, with Marie-Reine-du-Monde Cathedral in the foreground
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hotel (1453 words)

	The following article appeared on page 11 of The Montreal Gazette and was published on Monday
		The "mother liked you best" half of television's Smothers Brothers comedy team was in town this weekend to drop in on John Lennon's bed-in for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
		And while he joined in with Dr. Timothy Leary, the Lennon family and 50 bystanders to help record the song, "Just give peace a chance," he didn't sound a happy note when he talked about the future of the United States.
		Smothers was referring to the popular Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour which was cancelled recently over a hassle on network censorship.
	beatles.ncf.ca /smothers.html (416 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Safe As Milk [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
		"Safe as Milk" was, upon its release, John Lennon's favorite album.
		With the original LP release of this album, a "Safe as Milk" sticker was featured, and there's a famous picture (famous to Beefheart fans anyway) of Lennon laying in his apartment on a couch and reading a magazine, with two "Safe as Milk" stickers on the doors of a cupboard in the background.
		"Safe As Milk" (the title supposedly is a reference to the contamination of mother's milk with modern chemicals, according to a Beefheart interview) stands as the starting point for what was to become one of the most interesting and critically acclaimed acts in rock history.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000J7A2?v=glance (416 words)

	USATODAY.com - Strawberry Fields orphanage, immortalized in Beatles hit, to close
		John Lennon wrote the song's dreamy lyrics about a time in his childhood when he lived near the Strawberry Fields orphanage.
		It has been suggested that Lennon felt a kinship with the orphans after he was abandoned by his father and his mother, Julia, sent him to live with his Aunt Mimi, who raised him.
		The psychedelic single Strawberry Fields Forever was released in February 1967 with Penny Lane on the reverse side and quickly made it to No. 2 in the British charts, but it was kept out of the top slot by Engelbert Humperdinck's Release Me.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-12-strawberry-fields_x.htm (419 words)

	channel4.com - Real Lives - Cliff Richard
		The song, rapidly promoted to the A-side, was the first British rock-and-roll record, and has been cited as an inspiration by musicians including John Lennon (five days Cliff's senior).
		His mother in particular supported Cliff, both in his career as a teen idol and in his conviction that getting married would damage it – and that sex outside marriage was immoral.
		In July 1958 Cliff Richard and The Drifters recorded their first single, Schoolboy Crush, a song which had already been a hit in the US for Bobby Helms.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/R/real_lives/cliff.html (1061 words)

	Happy Christmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon Songfacts
		The idea of one of Lennons most poinent songs being performed at Christmas carols, and being sung with contrived gusto and smiling faces is faintly disgusting, but that's what happens every year.
		John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote this in their New York City hotel room and recorded it during the evening of October 28 and into the morning of the 29th, 1971 at the Record Plant in New York.
		John obviously had lost his mother at an early age and in his solo career started to deal with it.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.lasso?id=2420 (1240 words)

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