{"id":257618,"date":"2025-11-11T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257618\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:45:10","slug":"the-secret-john-lennon-message-hiding-in-a-song-by-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257618\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret John Lennon message hiding in a song by The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Paul-McCartney-John-Lennon-The-Beatles-1964-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Paul McCartney - John Lennon - The Beatles - 1964\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Far Out \/ Eric Koch for Anefo)<\/p>\n<p> Tue 11 November 2025 19:00, UK <\/p>\n<p>The world didn\u2019t stop turning when <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">The Beatles<\/a> split up, but for many, it may as well have. <\/p>\n<p>The band remains one of the most influential outfits on the planet. After leading the British invasion, they became one of the biggest groups in the world and completely changed how people viewed the music industry. Suddenly, there was a proper blueprint for how bands could crack America, and loads of acts who might\u2019ve flown under the radar before started making a name for themselves. Put simply, many still see the \u201860s as one of the greatest decades in music \u2013 and it all kicked off with The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>In their revolutionising of the music industry, the band managed to gain fans all over the planet. There was no escaping the Beatles; everywhere you went, their music was playing, there was merchandise available, people were cutting their hair to look like them, and they were starting bands in their garage in a bid to try and sound like them. These fans were left devastated when the band eventually split, but for anyone who had been paying attention, the writing was always on the wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the band had plenty of success, each member became their own individual, and in discovering themselves, they grew apart from the rest of their fellow Beatles. Cracks started to show as creative differences manifested in nearly every song that the band put out. Eventually, it was time for them to embark on their own solo careers, and those creative differences were visible based on how different each of their solo projects were. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, while their music was incredibly different from one another when they started working on solo projects, people never ruled out the idea of a reunion happening. It was a dream for many Beatles fans to see the Fab Four working together once again, and it nearly came to pass on a Ringo Starr solo record. John Lennon wrote the track \u2018I\u2019m the Greatest\u2019 for Starr, and when they went into the studio to record it, three out of four of The Beatles helped out: Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three of us were there and Paul would <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-song-john-lennon-said-should-have-reunited-the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">most probably have joined<\/a> in if he was around but he wasn\u2019t,\u201d recalled Lennon, \u201cI just got a call from Ringo, asking me to write a track so I did. It seemed the natural thing to do. For the track that I wrote, I was on piano, Billy Preston was on organ, Ringo was on drums, George was on guitar and Klaus Voorman was on bass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next time that the band would come anywhere close to a reunion, it was impossible for all four of them to take part, as John Lennon had sadly been murdered by then. In the mid-1990s, McCartney, Harrison and Starr all got back together to record some new Beatles music for what would become <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-beatles-confirm-new-anthology-projects-new-free-as-a-bird-mix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Anthology I.<\/a> While Lennon wasn\u2019t in the studio, there is a chance that his spirit might have made itself known to let the band know they were doing a good job, at least, that\u2019s what McCartney believes happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When discussing recording Lennon\u2019s demo for \u2018Free As a Bird\u2019, McCartney said that there was \u201cA lot of strange goings-on in the studio.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThere was just an overall feeling that John was around. We put one of those spoof backward recordings on the end of the single for a laugh to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. I think it was the line of a George Formby song. Then we were listening to the finished single in the studio one night, and it gets to the end, and it goes, \u2018zzzwrk nggggwaaahhh jooohn lennnnnon qwwwrk\u2019. I swear to God. We were like, \u2018It\u2019s John. He likes it!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>The Far Out Beatles Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest stories about The Beatles from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Eric Koch for Anefo) Tue 11 November 2025 19:00, UK The world didn\u2019t stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,25396,128,10447,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-257618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-lennon","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-the-beatles","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}