"How Do You Sleep?" is a song from John Lennon's 1971 album Imagine, in which he implicitly disparages former Beatles songwriting partner Paul McCartney. It features a particularly intricate slide guitar part played by George Harrison. Despite the overtness of the attack, Lennon later claimed that the song was more about himself than McCartney, and certainly one or two lines, notably "jump when your momma tells you anything", sound as though they are directed more at Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono than McCartney's with Linda, though it could be seen as a reference to Paul's claims of hearing from his dead mother Mary in the song Let it Be. And the song begins with the puzzling statement "So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise", a sentiment which applies more to Lennon than McCartney, the latter having been the principal driving force behind creating the album. For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... Imagine is John Lennons second solo album and is the most popular of his solo works. ... is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Imagine is John Lennons second solo album and is the most popular of his solo works. ... This article is about John Lennon song. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... Imagine is John Lennons second solo album and is the most popular of his solo works. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer and animal-rights activist. ... For the technique, see Slide (guitar technique). ... 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The overwhelming impression of the song, however, is an attack on McCartney, such as in the lines "The only thing you done was yesterday/And since you've gone you're just another day." Considering the puns involved, these two lines particularly stand out since it was Paul McCartney who composed the Beatles' song "Yesterday" and also later in his solo career wrote "Another Day". Besides making satirical reference to other McCartney songs, the lyrics also refer to the Paul is dead hoax ("Those freaks was right when they said you was dead"). For other uses, see Pun (disambiguation). ... Music sample Yesterday Problems? See media help. ... Another Day is a song recorded by Paul McCartney in New York in 1970, during the sessions for his album Ram. ... Paul McCartney Dead: The Great Hoax, a magazine reporting on the rumours concerning McCartney. ...

Lennon felt attacked by McCartney, who admitted that lines in the song "Too Many People" on the album Ram were intended as digs at Lennon (though Lennon and Yoko Ono thought the whole album was intended as such).^{[citation needed]} The song "How Do You Sleep?" was their reply. McCartney's song "Let Me Roll It" on the album Band On The Run set an end to their public battle. Ram is Paul McCartneys second solo album, officially credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, and was released in 1971. ... Let Me Roll It is the fifth track on the Paul McCartney & Wings album Band on the Run. ... Band on the Run is an album by Wings, released in 1973. ...

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