According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

According to Lennon in 1972, The Beatles ' music publisher Dick James was quite pleased with " No Reply ":

According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip.

According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

According to Taylor, " The guy had sort of pinned me to the wall and was glistening with maniacal sweat and talking some freak speak about what he was going to do and his stuff with how John was interested, and he was going to get in touch with John Lennon.

According to Lennon, their decision not to pick the show up was influenced by a scene, preserved in the eventual Comedy Central pilot, involving Lt. Dangle passionately kissing a man.

According to Albert Goldman's biography, John Lennon named " Reminiscing " as one of his favourite songs.

* According to McCartney, " Tell Me What You See " was written 60 % by him, 40 % by Lennon.

" According to journalist Jade Wright, " Lennon was fascinated by the power of slogans to unite people and never afraid to create art out of propaganda.

According to Lennon, " it was resurrected with a middle eight thrown in, probably with Paul's help " for Rubber Soul.

* According to journalist Richard Simpson, Lennon wrote the song in response to Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones boasting about his pop-star girlfriend (" bird " in British Isles slang ) Marianne Faithfull.

According to Beatles biographer John T. Marck, " Real Love " originated as part of an unfinished stage play that Lennon was working on at the time titled " The Ballad of John and Yoko.

According to Lennon, " In ' Mean Mr. Mustard ', I said ' his sister Pam '— originally it was ' his sister Shirley ' in the lyric.

According to Lennon, the title came from the cover of a gun magazine that producer George Martin showed him: " I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said ' Happiness Is a Warm Gun.

According to accounts of the time, " Everybody who was anybody " came to the Cockette's New York opening, including such celebrities as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Liza Minnelli, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Angela Lansbury.

According to Peter Brown in his book The Love You Make, the song was written in a " creative outburst " following Lennon and Ono going " cold turkey " from their brief heroin addictions.

According to George Harrison, John Lennon played the guitar solo.

According to Bill Wyman in his book ' Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ' N ' Roll Band ,' John Lennon said of The Rolling Stones No. 2: " The album's great, but I don't like five-minute numbers.

According to Goldman, on the day Lennon was murdered he was scheduled to undergo plastic surgery several days later to repair his nasal septum ( due to snorting cocaine, which he supposedly did at the Hit Factory recording studio where he recorded his album Double Fantasy ).

According to Lennon, it was written together but it was " mainly mine ".

According to Lennon in the International Times: " The first dope, from a Benzedrine inhaler, was given to the Beatles ( John, George, Paul and Stuart ) by an English cover version of Allen Ginsberg — one Royston Ellis, known as ' beat poet ' ...

According to his mother, both she and her son maintained friendly relations with all of The Beatles except for Lennon, who by Cooke de Herrera's account was " a genius " but distant and contemptuous of the wealthy American Cooke de Herrera and her clean-cut, college-attending son.

According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of " Sexy Sadie " features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band: " Maharishi, you little twat / Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Oh, you cunt.

According to Lennon, the song's origins can be found when the English journalist Kenneth Allsop made a remark that Lennon should write songs about his childhood.

According to the song's history provided by Austria's Silent Night Society, one supposition is that the church organ was no longer working so that Mohr and Gruber therefore created a song for accompaniment by guitar.

According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage:

According to Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page, the song's structure " was a riff that I'd been working on, but Bonzo's drum sound really makes a difference on that point.

According to Jim Farber from Entertainment Weekly, he described the song's musical beat and Madonna's vocals as " vague, tuneless phrases chanted in Madonna's most breathless voice over a minimal house groove — serves mainly to justify the visuals.

According to Hunter Davies, the initial idea for the song's title came from a phrase often spoken by Jimmie Nicol, the group's stand-in drummer for the Australian leg of a 1964 tour.

" According to a number of people present in the studio that day, Crosby burst into tears but eventually completed the song's harmony part with sterling results.

For the song's vocals, Beck attempted to emulate the rapping style of Public Enemy's Chuck D. According to Beck, the line that became the song's chorus originated because " When played it back, I thought, ' Man, I'm the worst rapper in the world, I'm just a loser.

According to Coldplay's vocalist, Chris Martin, the song's writing was inspired by his own behaviour.

According to the sheet music published by Musicnotes, Inc., the song's time signature follows the common 4 / 4, with a tempo of 70 beats per minute.

According to some accounts, clarinetist Pud Brown was also involved with the Rice Brothers for the song's origin or first arrangement.

According to Mike Scully, the Simpsons staff had to pay the song's record company $ 100 000 for the rights to use the tune in the episode.

According to author Chris Nickson, the song's instrumentation and basis was crucial to Carey's performance throughout the song.

According to recording industry insiders, one of the song's composers, Sam Coslow, hated Jones ' irreverent treatment.

According to Popular Music in America, the song's " lush orchestration, expansive form, and above all its soaring melody " allow the singer and character ( Emile ) to " linger in the moment " of immediate infatuation.

According to state law ( RCW 1. 20. 071 ), all proceeds from the song's sale are to be paid into the state's general fund.

According to Ryan Schreiber of Pitchfork Media, the song's instrumentation consists of a blending of funk keyboards, a slippery bass and minimal, programmed R & B percussion instruments.

According to Barker, the nostalgic people would instantly recognize the song's lyrics at night clubs.

According to Slant Magazine, the song embodies some of Madonna's old hits, incorporating them into the song's pitched-upward vocals while presenting an archetypical key change / tonicization during the bridge.

According to Clinton, most of the song's lyrics were ad-libbed during the recording process.

According to the BBC News Service, during the year 2003 alone — a full decade after the song's initial release — Romero and Ruiz made USD $ 250, 000 in royalties.

According to Victor Amaro Vicente in his book The aesthetics of motion in musics for the Mevlana Celal ed-Din Rumi, the song ’ s music bears many resemblances to new age-era music and different forms of Sufi-inspired music ; its slow atmospheric qualities have drawn comparison to " Mevlevi-Sufi Relaxation "; the song's intricate rhythmic structure has also drawn comparison to the zikr ceremony ; the song's " steady and continuous rhythmic loop is suggestive of zikr ".