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Post by TotalInformation on Oct 13, 2003 22:36:27 GMT
I really tend to think Sexy Sadie might be about a girl in the Beatles' orbit who blew the whistle on Faul and faces the ultimate price for it. Doesn't anyone else have this interpretation?
And if so, who might this Sexy Sadie be?
Sexy Sadie what have you done
You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie ooh what have you done
Sexy Sadie you broke the rules
You laid it down for all to see
You laid it down for all to see
Sexy Sadie oooh you broke the rules
One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover
She came along to turn on everyone
Sexy Sadie the greatest of them all
Sexy Sadie how did you know
The world was waiting just for you
The world was waiting just for you
Sexy Sadie oooh how did you know
Sexy Sadie you'll get yours yet
However big you think you are
However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie oooh you'll get yours yet
We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table
Just a smile would lighten everything
Sexy Sadie she's the latest and the greatest of them all
She made a fool of everyone, Sexy Sadie
However big you think you are
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Post by JoJo on Oct 14, 2003 2:05:23 GMT
From the 60IF document: "The trip in India was our attempt to put Paul's soul into Faul's body but of course it didn't succeed; yes, I know, it was a crazy idea, but we were almost going out of our heads with grief." After reading 60IF I wondered if this was the biggest reason for John's anger at the Maharishi, perhaps he "sold" John on the idea that it could be done. John seemed to be saying in interviews over the years that he was at the very least a scam artist. Someone mentioned on another thread that she had necer heard of a belief system where the exchange or relacement of souls was believed in or practiced. Of course she was correct, but does that stop a sleazy con artist from convincing some grief stricken people that it could be done? Do I need to answer this question?  |
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Post by Eggman on Oct 14, 2003 3:21:20 GMT
The original title John gave to this song was "Maharishi" |
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Post by SunKing on Oct 14, 2003 7:50:04 GMT
The original title John gave to this song was "Maharishi" Be careful Eggy, this is another bullsh*t. |
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Post by PaulBearer on Oct 14, 2003 8:29:02 GMT
...or maybe not SK. Even if it was about the maharishi, it would still be a clue (being let down with soul swapping).
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Post by MotherNaureSon on Oct 14, 2003 9:24:35 GMT
Be careful Eggy, this is another bullsh*t. SK, what criteria do you use to tell between bullshit and reallity? That's taken from a Lennon interview. Why do you give credit to some of them and not to others? |
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Post by Eggman on Oct 14, 2003 13:38:04 GMT
Yeah!!! I read it in an interview |
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Post by kitsune on Oct 14, 2003 15:47:24 GMT
Susan "Sexy Sadie" Atkins
maybe
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Post by TotalInformation on Oct 14, 2003 17:40:39 GMT
No, the Manson family called Susan Atkins Sexy Sadie, but who did Lennon write the song about?
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Post by JoJo on Oct 14, 2003 20:58:42 GMT
Cutting and pasting the relevant part from: www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~yjl/bealtespaper.htmGeorge Harrison relates the composition of “Sexy Sadie” in The Beatles Anthology, writing, “John had a song he had started to write which he was singing: ‘Maharishi, what have you done?’ and I said, ‘You can’t say that, it’s ridiculous.’ I came up with the title of Sexy Sadie (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey 286).” Lennon’s lyrics are filled with a feeling of disillusionment. The song begins with Lennon singing, “Sexy Sadie what have you done / You made a fool of everyone (Lennon/McCartney).” In the fifth stanza, Lennon sings, “Sexy Sadie you’ll get yours yet / However big you think you are / However big you think you are / Sexy Sadie oooh you’ll get yours yet (Lennon/McCartney).” The following stanza begins with, “We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table (Lennon/McCartney).” John Lennon and the other Beatles wanted to believe that Maharishi could provide them with answers. Lennon relates this feeling in an interview from 1968 that appears in The Beatles Anthology, saying, “We thought he was something other than he was. But we were looking for it and we probably superimposed it on him. We were waiting for a guru, and along he came (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey 286).” |
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Post by TotalInformation on Oct 15, 2003 5:19:54 GMT
I tend to trust Harrison's statement, but a few lines just don't sit right with me regardless. Oh well.
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Post by PaulBearer on Oct 15, 2003 11:42:06 GMT
Sex - 'e say die!  ;D |
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Post by MMCDHoward on Dec 25, 2003 8:03:58 GMT
The statement that seems most likely to me was that the Maharishi attempted to rape Mia Farrow and when Beatles found out they told the Maharishi they were leaving. When he asked why, Lennon, showing his typical wit, said, "If you're so cosmic, you'll know why." ;D Of course, this might have been because of his dissatisfaction at the inability of the Maharishi to put Paul's soul into Bill.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 26, 2003 23:56:09 GMT
I have a little better info this time from the man himself: (Lennon Remembers interview)
You wrote "Sexy Sadie" about the Maharishi.
That's about Maharishi, yeah. I copped out and wouldn't write
"Maharishi, what have you done, you made a fool of everyone." [leaning into mike of tape recorder] But now it can be told, fab listeners.
When did you realize that he was making a fool of you?
I don't know, I just sort of saw.
While in India, or when you got back?
Yeah, there was a big hullabaloo about him trying to rape Mia
Farrow or trying to get off with Mia Farrow and a few other women,
things like that. And we went down to him and we'd stayed up all night
discussing, was it true or not true. And when George started thinking
it might be true, I thought, "Well it must be true, cause if George is
doubting it, there must be something in it." So we went to see
Maharishi, the whole gang of us the next day charged down to his hut,
his very rich-looking bungalow in the mountains. And I was the
spokesman-as usual, when the dirty work came, I actually had to be leader, whatever the scene was, when it came to the nitty gritty I had to do the speaking. And I said, "We're leaving."
"Why?" Hee-hee, all that s**t. And I said, "Well if you're so cosmic,
you'll know why." He was always intimating, and there were all his
right hand men intimating that he did miracles. He said, "I don't know why, you must tell me." And I just kept saying "You know why-and he gave me a look like, "I'll kill you, bastard." He gave me such a look, and I knew then when he looked at me, because I'd called his bluff.
And I was a bit rough to him.
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Post by MMCDHoward on Dec 26, 2003 23:59:43 GMT
Well, you could always count on John to say how he felt to anyone, even if its someone he admired. |
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