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Post by LOVELYRITA on Jan 1, 2006 23:35:17 GMT -5
This song is supposed to be filled with clues. The part I'm opening here with is: "He's the All-American, bullet-headed, Saxon mother's son." So, is Bill "all american"? Okay, that's understandable. "bullet-headed"? - having a small round head bull headed, pigheaded, obstinate and stupid. www.wordreference.com/definition/bullet-headedSaxon mother's son? Saxon- Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo Saxons, dominant in England until the Norman conquest... ...about Bill's family tree... So he's All American , obstinate and stupid and his mother's line was from England? Hey Bungalow Bill, what did you kill? Filled with clues, or just some jibberish inspired while in Africa? |
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Post by TotalInformation on Jan 2, 2006 5:10:57 GMT -5
I think this one was a genuine Lennon/FAUL collaboration. Some of it seems autobiographical to the man we know as FAUL, but the concept and much of the wordplay was Lennon.
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Post by lili on Jan 3, 2006 11:43:52 GMT -5
I agree, Total.
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Jan 3, 2006 14:23:26 GMT -5
So this is Lennon jibberish? Or just a type of therapy of coping with his loss?
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Post by beatlies on Jan 3, 2006 17:06:39 GMT -5
The title is one of their Mia Farrow/ Fia Pharrow clues: every Peyton Place began with a voice-over announcer saying "This is the continuing story of Peyton Place ......"
The white album was released in 1968 when Peyton Place was still on the air ("Mia Farrow" left the show's cast in 1966). Many listeners would recognize the allusion in the song because Peyton Place was a long-running, top-rated show, but they would be mystified by the connection between Peyton Place and the song lyrics. Maybe some people would make the "Mia Farrow" (Fia Pharrow) retreat in India with the Beatles and the CIA-Maharishi connection. Lennon said the song was inspired by an American hunter in India and was written while he was with Fia and Prudence Farrow (Frudence?) in the Rishikesh CIA retreat.
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Post by plastic paul on Jan 3, 2006 19:31:09 GMT -5
Any need for that? Woah overload!
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Post by beatlies on Jan 3, 2006 19:40:08 GMT -5
I've just modified the error Plastic Paul.
The lesson is to never use or buy an Apple computer, once better than the IBM clones, now made to be deliberately worse.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 3, 2006 19:53:07 GMT -5
I've just modified the error Plastic Paul. The lesson is to never use or buy an Apple computer, once better than the IBM clones, now made to be deliberately worse. Now them's fightin' words friend. Ok, I don't want to get into a Apple vs. PC war here, there have been plenty of those fought on the web. I use both, the PC is sitting to my right, because.. it's only used as a slave for certain tasks for which the Mac doesn't have the software I need. Number of spyware programs I just cleaned out of the PC, even though I hardly use it to browse the web: Too many to count. Number on the Mac: zero Days the Mac has run at a time without a reboot, since it's a web server: too many to count Times I've had to reboot a locked up PC: too many to count.. I could go on.. |
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