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"With John, the basic ambiguity came through—his loving Paul, and needing to stay separate. On The Mike Douglas Show in 1972, a young man in the audience asked John if “How Do You Sleep” was “vicious.” John at first denied it, saying he had just had dinner with Paul who was laughing and smiling. “If I can’t have a fight with my best friend,” he said, “I don’t know who I can have a fight with.”
Douglas was just moderating, but it seems he couldn’t resist this striking declaration. He turned to Lennon. “Is he your best friend, Paul?”
“I guess in the male sex he,” John stammered, “— he was. I don’t know about now, because I don’t see much of him, you know.”
Two years later, John would mix up his tenses when describing Paul in an even more revealing way. It was Thanksgiving night in 1974, when he joined Elton John at a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden.
“I’d like to thank Elton and the boys for having me on tonight,” he said. “We tried to think of a number to finish off with so I can get out of here and be sick, and we thought we’d do a number of an old, estranged fiance of mine, called Paul. This is one I never sang. It’s an old Beatle number and we just about know it.”
The song was “I Saw Her Standing There.”
Though he lived another six years, John Lennon never took the stage for a major show again. His strange words have a peculiar and lasting echo. By then, Paul and John had been the most famous exes in the world for four years. But somehow, they were still “fiances”—prospective spouses. As much as had passed, the energy between them was always in front of them—always, somehow, in the future."

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"It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I’ve just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life … I figure no one is educated musically ‘til they’ve heard that album … I love the orchestra, the arrangements … it may be going overboard to say it’s the classic of the century … but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways … I’ve often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence … it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines … and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. “God Only Knows” is a big favourite of mine … very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On “You Still Believe in Me”, I love that melody - that kills me … that’s my favourite, I think … it’s so beautiful right at the end … comes surging back in these multi-coloured harmonies … sends shivers up my spine."

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I met you on Main Street
And you became my main dream
Now I’m drunk at the fishing stream
I can’t remember your last name

You think I bought you that wedding band
I dug it up in the seaside sand
I’m cheap and I’m mean and you’re as sweet as sugarcane
I’m gonna stick a straight razor in my crooked vein

I’m gonna stick a straight razor in my crooked vein
It carries cold blood to my crooked heart
And down my body to my liver part
That alcohol’s been tearing apart

My eyes are blurry
If I had friends, they’d all be worried
I can’t believe you’re going back to Tennessee
Ninety proof ain’t proof enough for me

If I don’t stay exactly high
When I say high, I’m talking ten liquor bottles high
I forget to remember to forget
I’m gonna stick a straight razor in my crooked vein

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