Believe it or not but The Beatles – that lovable, clean-cut quartet from the 1960s – may have been the ones, via the dropping of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, who began the trend of mainstream musicians making songs...
Apparently not all fiery, young musicians from the 1960s and 70s were hippyish. For here we have Steely Dan, who were in their early twenties at the time, criticizing the type of idealism that...
To note, this song actually traces its origins back to a gospel piece in which, most frankly put, the intended addressee is God. And that is why the lyrics feature such powerful language as...
Readers who are familiar with The Beatles – or perhaps have read our analyses of some of the other songs they dropped circa the late 1960s – would know that around that time the...
Some have described The Beatles’ “Get Back” a song that is pretty incomprehensible from a lyrical standpoint. And actually that appears to be just about spot on. That is to say that the song doesn’t seem...
As the title of this Cranberries song (“I Just Shot John Lennon”) suggests, the lyrics entirely deal with the cold murder of one of the greatest musicians of all time, The Beatles’ John Lennon....
Julian Lennon’s “Too Late for Goodbyes” is a proper love song, one centered on a troubled relationship in fact. However, it isn’t necessarily the simplest to understand, at least not as far as the...
John Lennon oft dropped songs with a revolutionary slant, even during the latter days of the Beatles. In fact his influence in that regard was so potentially powerful that the US government actually tagged him for some period...
The actual Strawberry Field is a piece of land in Liverpool – an estate highlighted by a large, castle-like mansion that is owned by the Salvation Army to be precise. But even more importantly to its popularity,...
Even for what can be deemed a relatively-mundane track lyrically as far as the Beatles are concerned, there are still various ways “Good Morning Good Morning” can and has been interpreted. But ultimately, the generally-understood sentiment behind...
