Episode 150: “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Mister Kite and Mister Henderson, for the Grandest Night of the Season
All john's songs on pepper were inspired by pieces of mediar he'd come across a day in the life. The sky with diamonds was inspired by a painting by lenan's son of a classmate, and by a section from his favourite book, alice in wonderland. Lenon would later be rather dismissive of being for the benefit of mister kite, saying,. i hardly made up a word, just connecting the lists together word for word. I wasn't very proud of that. There was no real work. We're just doing it. People want to know what the inner meaning of misterKite was. There wasn't any. I shoved a lot of words together
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