After being on a Beatles trip for a few weeks now I decided to give this another look. It really is a nicely put together documentary with some well known and some less well know clips of John from childhood, the Beatles through to his solo work. I particularly liked the clip of the American hippie guy who managed to get into the grounds of John's estate and John comes to the door and is questioned by the guy over the meaning of the lyrics in some of the Beatles songs. The poor fella is a little 'confused' and thinks some of the Beatles lyrics were personally aimed at him, a man who John had never met!! John tells the guy that he was just having fun playing with words and there was no hidden meanings. He then asks the guy if he's hungry and invites him in for breakfast! How cool is that!
There are also some great studio moments captured on film. Particularly interesting to see George joining John in the studio during the recording of 'How Do You Sleep?', a scathing attack on Paul McCartney. Seemingly Ringo visited the studio and was reportedly upset, saying 'That's enough John'. Thankfully a later interview with John shows that things were much better with John even forseeing the Beatles reforming in the future! Alas! :-( Anyway here are the lyrics:
How Do You Sleep?
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your mama tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you've gone you're just another day
Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?
Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years
Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?
