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Happiness Is A Warm Gun
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by krispos42 (a host of the Gun Control & RKBA group).
One of the many stories John Lennon told about the song:
The title came from an article in The American Rifleman, a magazine published by the National Rifle Association. The story was titled "Happiness Is A Warm Gun." In it, the author recalls the special time when he took his 7-year-old son shooting for the first time. It struck John Lennon as "fantastic, insane… a warm gun means you've just shot something." Said Lennon, "I thought it was so crazy that I made a song out of it."
- https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/happiness-is-a-warm-gun
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From around the middle of 1968 through to the latter months of 1969, John Lennon was addicted to heroin.
He was getting into harder drugs than we’d been into and so his songs were taking on more references to heroin. Until that point we had made rather mild, oblique references to pot or LSD. But now John started talking about fixes and monkeys and it was harder terminology which the rest of us weren’t into. - Paul
https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/drugs/8/
He was getting into harder drugs than we’d been into and so his songs were taking on more references to heroin. Until that point we had made rather mild, oblique references to pot or LSD. But now John started talking about fixes and monkeys and it was harder terminology which the rest of us weren’t into. - Paul
https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/drugs/8/
This was recorded and released in the Fall of 1968.
