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werdna

(419 posts)
Sat May 28, 2022, 09:07 AM May 2022

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

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One of the many stories John Lennon told about the song:

The title came from an article in The American Rifleman, a magazine published by the National Rifle Association. The story was titled "Happiness Is A Warm Gun." In it, the author recalls the special time when he took his 7-year-old son shooting for the first time. It struck John Lennon as "fantastic, insane… a warm gun means you've just shot something." Said Lennon, "I thought it was so crazy that I made a song out of it."

- https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/happiness-is-a-warm-gun
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Original Post) werdna May 2022 OP
🎶 "Bang bang. Shoot shoot!"🎶 LakeArenal May 2022 #1
I'll just leave this here. discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2022 #2
Locking krispos42 May 2022 #3

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
1. 🎶 "Bang bang. Shoot shoot!"🎶
Sat May 28, 2022, 11:15 AM
May 2022

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
2. I'll just leave this here.
Sat May 28, 2022, 12:01 PM
May 2022
From around the middle of 1968 through to the latter months of 1969, John Lennon was addicted to heroin.

He was getting into harder drugs than we’d been into and so his songs were taking on more references to heroin. Until that point we had made rather mild, oblique references to pot or LSD. But now John started talking about fixes and monkeys and it was harder terminology which the rest of us weren’t into. - Paul

https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/drugs/8/


This was recorded and released in the Fall of 1968.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
3. Locking
Sun May 29, 2022, 10:48 PM
May 2022

This doesn't fit within the SoP of the Group.

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Krispos42, Group Host

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