Usually, John Lennon wrote the songs alongside his partner in crime, Paul McCartney, but he once admitted that one of the best songs he ever wrote for the Beatles was done alone. Lennon felt it culminated in 1969 when he agreed to write a song for a charity compilation album: Nobody Will Change Our World. The Fab Four were featured on the album alongside artists such as Lulu, Cilla Black, and Rolf Harris. But their song for the recording was especially special to Lennon.
Lennon remembered how he wrote the hit psychedelic track in 1968 after a brutal altercation with his first wife, Cynthia Lennon.
The Beatles married Cynthia, a native of Blackpool, in 1962 and had a son, Julian Lennon, in 1963. Six years later, Lennon met Yoko Ono. Within months, he divorced Cynthia before marrying the Japanese artist in 1969. Six years later, in 1975, Ono gave birth to Sean Ono Lennon.
In 1968, before he met Lennon Ono, songwriting became his way of dealing with the breakdown of his marriage to Cynthia.
Lennon told Playboy, “I was lying next to my first wife in bed, you know, and I was pissed off, and I was thinking. She must have been going on talking about something and she’d gone to sleep and I kept hearing those words over and over again, flowing like an endless stream. for him “.
Lennon used this outrageous event to write lyrics for one fundamentalist Beatle song that ranks as one of the most famous songs of all time: Across the Universe.
The path’s startling first words are: “Words flow like endless rain in a paper cup / They glide wildly as you drift across the universe / Pools of sadness, waves of joy drift across my open mind / Possession and caress I am.”
Physically excited by this thunderbolt of inspiration, Lennon quickly jumped into action to start writing.
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He recalls, “I went downstairs and turned into some kind of cosmic song instead of a naughty one. Instead of ‘Why are you always talking to me?'” ” [The words] It was purely inspirational and was given to me like boom! I don’t have it you know; It came like this. “
He later admitted how he adored the song’s lyrics.
The psychedelic song Across the Universe appeared on the aforementioned compilation record but was later included on the band’s final album, Let It Be, a year later.
In the same year, in 1970, Lennon was asked in an interview about his favorite Beatles tracks. He’s revealed his top five: Strawberry Fields Forever, I Want To Hold Your Hand, I’m A Walrus, A Girl And Across The Universe.
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Then Lennon went into some detail about the final track. He said, “It’s one of the best songs I’ve written. In fact, it could be the best. It’s good poetry, or whatever you call it.”
And he added, “Look, those I love are those who stand as words without melody. They don’t have any melody, like a poem, you can read it.”
Although Across the Universe came down as one of the Beatles’ most popular songs, it didn’t win any awards, but rather was launched into the stratosphere – literally.
It was teleported across the universe toward the star Polaris, about 431 light-years from Earth, by NASA. This was the first time a song had been intentionally transmitted to deep space. The marketing event has been approved by McCartney, Ono and Apple Corps.
Across the Universe was also used as the title of the musical The Beatles directed by Julie Taymour.
In 2007, Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess starred in the musical romantic drama, Across the Universe, which featured some great musicians along the way.
Not only did Eddie Izzard and Salma Hayek appear, but U2’s Bono as well.
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