John Lennon said The Beatles‘ “I Am the Walrus” could have been about a “pudding basin” instead. In addition, he discussed the tone of the song. John said his attitude toward lyrics changed when he ...

Rock history is filled with stories of highly misunderstood songs, and it seems like a fair amount of them were by the Beatles. This makes sense, of course. The Fab Four's lyrics weren't always that ...

John Lennon said he wanted to sing like a siren on The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” He revealed where the siren sounds were supposed to be in the song. Notably, “I Am the Walrus” was commercially ...

Good poetry often requires multiple readings to reveal its true message—a literary lesson that John Lennon learned the hard way after writing “I Am the Walrus.” The former Beatle wrote the Magical ...

The Beatles’ 1967 track, “I Am the Walrus”, has as big an amalgamation of sources of inspiration as one might expect from a song that begins, “I am he as you are he, as you are me, and we are all ...