The Beatles had a habit of attracting obsessive fans. At the height of their fame, almost every country in the world had its own brand of Beatles junky. To this day, countless music fans hold an adoration for The Beatles that you could easily mistake for crippling dependence. That being said, such obsessions aren’t without reason.
The frequently abstract lyrics of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are fertile ground for misinterpretation and projection. Considering every single word The Beatles spoke in interviews was assumed to have some secondary meaning, it’s no surprise their songs were treated in the same way.
John Lennon was reminded of his fan’s fixation with language in 1971 when a 23-year-old stranger turned up at his country home to ask him what it all meant: In the 2018 Imagine John Yoko book, Dan Richter – the pair’s assistant at the time – notes: “Apparently Claudio was a shell-shocked veteran who was due to be released from the hospital.”
Lennon said he’d been sending tele
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