McCartney написал песню Dear Friend - о ком?

Сегодня услышал впервые эту песню и долгое время не мог слушать ничего другого - крутил ее повторно раз за разом...
Други, битломаны и просто сочувствующие, подскажите, где искать информацию об этой песне: О ком она, может кто просветит?

Посвящение Джону Леннону.

Дорогой друг, который час?
Неужели - всё, порог?
Неужели это настолько важно для тебя?
Тебе страшно, или же это - по-настоящему?

Дорогой друг, налей бокал,
Я влюбился в друга своего.
Истинно, взаправду - молодой жених.
Ты спятил, или же это - по-настоящему?

NB. Фраза "I'm in love with a friend of mine" в буквальном переводе на русский звучит несколько странно, добавляя ненужные ассоциации, тем не менее оставляю здесь именно такой вариант.

"Мой милый друг, который час?
Неужто мы дошли до точки?.."

Меня это тоже заинтересовало, сунулся в Интернет и нашел такую разборку песен, судите сами:

Expert: Elizabeth
Date: 3/17/2005
Subject: Let Me Roll It

Question
I've heard that Paul's song "Let Me Roll It" is a response to John Lennon's scathing "How Do You Sleep?", but I can't for the life of me understand what "Let Me Roll It" has to do with John at all. Could you explain to me how the song is supposed to be a response? Thanks very much.

Answer
You're right - "Let Me Roll It" is not related to "How Do You Sleep?" in any way. The Lennon song is actually a response to McCartney's "Too Many People," where the lyrics are kind of obvious.

Too Many People Going Underground
Too Many Reaching For A Piece Of Cake
Too Many People Pulled And Pushed Around
Too Many Waiting For That Lucky Break

That Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In Two

Too Many People Sharing Party Lines
Too Many People Never Sleeping Late
Too Many People Paying Parking Fines
Too Many Hungry People Losing Weight

Too Many People Breaching Practices
Don't Let Them Tell You What You Wanna Be
Too Many People Holding Back, This Is
Crazy And Maybe It's Not Like Me

That Was Your Last Mistake
I Find My Love Awake And Waiting To Be
Now What Can Be Done For You
She's Waiting For Me

Also, on the back of the album cover for the Ram album (on which "Too Many People" is the first track) there's a picture of two bugs having sex. Or rather, one beetle screwing another. Get it?


This album came out about five months before "How Do You Sleep." A few month after, Wings released their first album Wild Life, which contained "Dear Friend," and I always thought that this song was about John Lennon as well:

Dear friend, what's the time?
Is this really the borderline?
Does it really mean so much to you?
Are you afraid, or is it true?

Dear friend, throw the wine,
I'm in love with a friend of mine.
Really truly, young and newly wed.
Are you a fool, or is it true?


At the same time, John and Paul were writing nasty letters letters to each other through a British music magazine, I believe it was Melody Maker. Oh well, I guess breaking up really is hard to do.

Thanks for taking your time to ask me a question!

Распространённое заблуждение о том, что Dear Friend является ответом Пола на How Do You Sleep Джона исходит из того, что альбом Пола и Вингс Wild Life вышел чуть позже джоновского альбома Imagine. На самом деле Dear Friend была сочинена годом раньше и совсем по другому поводу (хотя обращена, тем не менее, к Джону). Существуют демо-записи, датированные 1970 годом, что же касается окончательной версии, то она была записана во время сессий RAM, но на майский лонгплей не попала.

Любопытно, что Elizabeth из постинга Марата так и не получила ответа на свой вопрос ;-)

Марату только надо было только дать фонетический вариант строчки с которой Рэм начинается:
Yeah. Piss off, cake
Чтобы понять возмущение Леннона.

Ram begins with two words directed at John Lennon, 'piss off'. 'Yeah. Piss off, cake,' explained Paul. 'Like, a piece of cake becomes piss off cake, and it's nothing, it's so harmless really, just little digs.' Paul's tirade didn't go unnoticed, and unsurprisingly Lennon took Too Many People as a direct attack on his political beliefs and public statements.

.........

Long after Lennon's death, Paul explained that: 'Dear Friend was written about John, yes. I don't like grief and arguments, they always bug me. Life is too precious, although we often find ourselves guilty of doing it. So after John had slagged me off in public I had to think of a response, and it was either going to be slag him off in public - some instinct stopped me, which I'm really glad about - or do something else. So I worked on my attitude and wrote Dear Friend, saying, in effect, lets lay the guns down, let's hang up our boxing gloves.' Paul appears to have forgotten that much of Ram, not to mention what he said in the press, was spent slagging off Lennon. However, Dear Friend points to a possible reconciliation, even if both would have publicly rejected any such suggestion as nonsense.

2Голубяка:

>Любопытно, что Elizabeth из постинга Марата так
>и не получила ответа на свой вопрос ;-)

Макс, ты не понял. Кто-то задал Question на сайт, а как раз Expert Elizabeth дала этот Аnswer!