Composition
In his 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon described it as an attempt to rewrite "This Boy" (the style of the song) that "didn't quite work". Paul McCartney on the other hand described it as "a very fine song of John's", and said he was present when Lennon wrote it.
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“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
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