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Posted: Jul 1, 2011 - 12:43pm

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According to The Beatles Bible website, Lennon spoke about it in his 1980 interview with Playboy:

The thing was created in the studio. The lyrics are gobbledygook and Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with when he was running for president. They'd asked me to write them a campaign song. I tried and tried and tried and couldn't come up with it. But I came up with this Come Together, which would have been no good for them. They couldn't have had a campaign song like that, right? But Leary attacked me years later, saying I ripped him off. Well, I had written another little thing called "Come together and join the party..." It never got further than that. And they never came back to ask for the song. I didn't rip him off. I had the song there waiting for him.
John Lennon · Playboy, 1980

However, when looking over one of the available transcripts of that interview, I could not find that particular quote.

Those are great quotes you have posted!

Here's that Asker dude... I had qualified this statement from the get-go when I said I went looking for a good footnote and found this instead... when I read this I remembered this history from other works like jagdriver described...

it really is amazing history, and it is also amazing how the music of the Beatles lives without any need for historical context— songs are as good right now as they ever were...

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Posted: Jul 1, 2011 - 12:04pm

winter wrote:

And the author of this insight ...?

According to The Beatles Bible website (far from "official"), Lennon spoke about it in his 1980 interview with Playboy:

The thing was created in the studio. The lyrics are gobbledygook and Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with when he was running for president. They'd asked me to write them a campaign song. I tried and tried and tried and couldn't come up with it. But I came up with this Come Together, which would have been no good for them. They couldn't have had a campaign song like that, right? But Leary attacked me years later, saying I ripped him off. Well, I had written another little thing called "Come together and join the party..." It never got further than that. And they never came back to ask for the song. I didn't rip him off. I had the song there waiting for him.
John Lennon · Playboy, 1980

However, when looking over one of the available transcripts of that interview, I could not find that particular quote.

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Posted: Jul 1, 2011 - 11:56am

romeotuma wrote:

I was taught in college that the Beatles song "Come Together" is about the joys of simultaneous orgasms... I just looked for a good footnote, and I found this instead... fascinating history... I remember it like yesterday—

This song was written by John Lennon during his and Yoko's bed-in in Toronto in May 1969. It came about when their friend, Timothy Leary, the LSD drug mahatma and self-proclaimed liberator of the world's collective mind, slowed up at the bed-in. At this time, Leary had made a decision to run for political office, and came up with the campaign slogan of "Come Together." With this slogan in mind, he asked John to write him a song using it, that his followers could sing on the campaign trail. Lennon's take on the slogan was to come together and join the party, and wrote the song. Before Leary could use it, he was arrested and went to jail. As a result of Leary being gone, Lennon figured his obligation to him was no longer in force, thus he and The Beatles recorded it.

I do recall reading this in one of my MANY Beatles volumes, so it isn't just some 'Net fabrication..

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Posted: Jul 1, 2011 - 11:33am

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And the author of this insight ...?

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Posted: Jul 1, 2011 - 10:30am

dmax wrote:

I thought it was about the poor educational state of Liverpool.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2011 - 9:52pm

romeotuma wrote:

That is very cool!

(BTW, "Come Together", which just played right now, is about the joys of simultaneous orgasms...)

I thought it was about the poor educational state of Liverpool.

1 and 1 and 1 is 3.

Or, it could be about how much they admire James Bond.

Got to be good looking, cause he's so hard to see.

Or, it could be about the state of the chiropractic arts

He got spinal cracker.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2011 - 8:48pm
DaveInVA wrote: Same here and 1 is a french pressing on white vinyl.. That's racist.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2011 - 8:46pm
DaveInVA wrote: Same here and 1 is a french pressing on white vinyl.. That is very cool! (BTW, "Come Together", which just played right now, is about the joys of simultaneous orgasms...)

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Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 11:07am
romeotuma wrote: Yeah, I know what you mean... that album has a lot of jewels in it... I still have two copies of the original vinyl... Same here and 1 is a french pressing on white vinyl..

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Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 10:49am
DaveInVA wrote: Thats always been my favorite tune off the White Album... Yeah, I know what you mean... that album has a lot of jewels in it... I still have two copies of the original vinyl...

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Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 10:23am
romeotuma wrote: "Savoy Truffle" is an incredibly profound song... Thats always been my favorite tune off the White Album...

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Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 10:12am
"Savoy Truffle" is an incredibly profound song...

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Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 8:00pm
romeotuma wrote: This song is soooo good for the ears... handsomened wrote: Yes, soooo very cooool. Glad you agree! Still love this classic!

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Posted: Jun 9, 2011 - 4:43pm

jagdriver wrote:

It was definitely Geoff, responding to Lennon's request that he sound like monks from on top of Mt. Everest, who came up with the idea of running John's mic through a Leslie (rotating) speaker cabinet.

Many years ago I played bass in a band with friends of mine, and we had a keyboard player who used a Leslie amp. It did sound really cool but it was a beast to move around. I had to schlep around my Sunn 2000S bass amp (the top was even quite heavy) and its huge cabinet with two 15"s in it, then help the keyboard player move that Leslie monster. He eventually sold it once he got an offer near what he paid for it, but I remember running mikes through it to try to mimic that sound.
Both of those amps are probably pretty valuable these days.

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Posted: Jun 9, 2011 - 4:30pm
Proclivities wrote: Yes, it was probably Emerick, more than anyone else, who showed them that stuff. Thanks. It was definitely Geoff, responding to Lennon's request that he sound like monks from on top of Mt. Everest, who came up with the idea of running John's mic through a Leslie (rotating) speaker cabinet.

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Posted: Jun 9, 2011 - 4:26pm
jagdriver wrote: Corrected your typo. Yes, it was probably Mr. Emerick, more than anyone else, who showed them that kind of stuff. Thanks.

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Posted: Jun 9, 2011 - 3:25pm
Proclivities wrote: That's an interesting article. I remember an interview with Lennon where he talked about how he and McCartney would spend all this time just noodling around with the tape recorders after George Martin (engineer) Geoff Emerick had shown them a bunch of studio "tricks". Corrected your typo.

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Posted: Jun 9, 2011 - 3:21pm
jagdriver wrote: Paul McCartney Brings ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ Back to the Future That's an interesting article. I remember an interview with Lennon where he talked about how he and McCartney would spend all this time just noodling around with the tape recorders after George Martin had shown them a bunch of studio "tricks".

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Posted: Jun 9, 2011 - 3:05pm
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Posted: Jun 8, 2011 - 9:14pm
As Romeotuma always says 'This song is soooo good for the ears...' You're not wrong there. Thank you! Yes, this is a great song from a classic album...

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