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  • John's Accusation of "Subconscious Sabotage"

    From Norbert K@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 23 04:10:54 2022
    In the Playboy interview, John claims:

    The Beatles didn't make a good record of "Across the Universe." I think subconsciously we -- I thought Paul subconsciously tried to destroy my great songs. We would play experimental games with my great pieces, like "Strawberry Fields," which I
    always felt was badly recorded. It worked, but it wasn't what it could have been. I allowed it, though. We would spend hours doing little, detailed cleaning up on Paul's songs, but when it came to mine -- especially a great song like "Strawberry
    Fields" or "Across the Universe" -- somehow an atmosphere of looseness and experimentation would come up.

    Does anyone buy this? Or is it the drug-induced paranoia and Yoko-induced resentment of the Beatles (especially Paul) talking?

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  • From geoff@21:1/5 to Norbert K on Thu Feb 24 09:49:19 2022
    On 24/02/2022 1:10 am, Norbert K wrote:
    In the Playboy interview, John claims:

    The Beatles didn't make a good record of "Across the Universe." I think subconsciously we -- I thought Paul subconsciously tried to destroy my great songs. We would play experimental games with my great pieces, like "Strawberry Fields," which I
    always felt was badly recorded. It worked, but it wasn't what it could have been. I allowed it, though. We would spend hours doing little, detailed cleaning up on Paul's songs, but when it came to mine -- especially a great song like "Strawberry
    Fields" or "Across the Universe" -- somehow an atmosphere of looseness and experimentation would come up.

    Does anyone buy this? Or is it the drug-induced paranoia and Yoko-induced resentment of the Beatles (especially Paul) talking?

    Yoko needling away and causing dissent.

    geoff

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  • From Norbert K@21:1/5 to geoff on Thu Feb 24 04:33:33 2022
    On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 3:49:26 PM UTC-5, geoff wrote:
    On 24/02/2022 1:10 am, Norbert K wrote:
    In the Playboy interview, John claims:

    The Beatles didn't make a good record of "Across the Universe." I think subconsciously we -- I thought Paul subconsciously tried to destroy my great songs. We would play experimental games with my great pieces, like "Strawberry Fields," which I
    always felt was badly recorded. It worked, but it wasn't what it could have been. I allowed it, though. We would spend hours doing little, detailed cleaning up on Paul's songs, but when it came to mine -- especially a great song like "Strawberry Fields"
    or "Across the Universe" -- somehow an atmosphere of looseness and experimentation would come up.

    Does anyone buy this? Or is it the drug-induced paranoia and Yoko-induced resentment of the Beatles (especially Paul) talking?
    Yoko needling away and causing dissent.

    geoff

    The case could be made. During his time away from Yoko in the mid-70s, John was proud of his Beatles work and open to working with McCartney again.

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