John Lennon Mocks Fans with Glass Onion Track

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 telegrams to his house for nine months or so, always saying the same thing: “I’m coming and then I’ll only have to look in your eyes and I’ll know”. Claudio was determined to learn the true message he assumed lay hidden in Lennon’s lyrics. When he arrived, he was shocked to discover that his hero’s music didn’t necessarily have any purpose at all. In fact, most of it was an attempt to have “fun with words”.
Three years earlier, in 1968, Lennon had decided to have a bit of fun with his song ‘Glass Onion’. Fed up with people looking for hidden meanings in The Beatles’ music, he set out to write a track that was deliberately filled with allusions to past works, abstract imagery, red herrings and trap doors. He inserted various references to other over-interpreted songs like ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, ‘The Fool On The Hill’, Fixing A Hole’, Lady Madonna’ and ‘I Am The Walrus’.
The overall effect is the sonic equivalent of stepping into a mirror maze. ‘Glass Onion’ sees the return of the protagonist in ‘Lady Madonna’, a song which itself contains a reference to ‘I Am The Walrus’ in the line “see how they run”, which refers to ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ in the line, “see how they fly like Lucy in the sky”. It’s like an Escher painting – a true psychedelic masterpiece designed to mock obsessive fans.

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