
Suddenly, you hear voices — it’s not the band.
It’s a BBC broadcast of King Lear, layered live into the track by John Lennon.
But why?
Lennon wanted to mock the scholars dissecting Beatles lyrics like sacred texts.
So he gave them Shakespeare… just to mess with them.
It’s nonsense with a purpose. A riddle inside a revolution.
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