(“Think for Yourself” from Rubber Soulalso plays with this assumption.) It really is a cry for help, and beyond that, it’s a song about admitting the need for help, a song about itself. But, nothing in the lyrics gives any indication that this is true. You might think “Help!” is about a girl, as Beatles songs tended to be about girls back then. Did anyone in the room beside Lennon have any idea that he’d just smuggled the most autobiographical song he’d ever written into the end credits of a ludicrous teenybopper flick about an Indian cult trying to kill Ringo? After all, it would be years before pop songs were assumed to be personal. I say all of this not to elicit sympathy for Lennon, but instead to show how he was starting to fuck with the pop system he resented. His life was starting to seem unreal and absurd, he and his bandmates existed in a perpetual state of stoned giggling, and he was stressed-out and busy. As mid-1960s pop stars, the Beatles were obliged to make a cinematic romp to follow-up 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night, and that included a theme song. ![]() Most people think it’s just a fast rock ‘n’ roll song.” That’s John Lennon in 1980, describing the song and anguished word that open the album of the same name. “When Help! came out in ’65, I was actually crying out for help.
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