VINTAGE (DLXXXVIII)

The Beatles - "Come Together"

"'Come Together' is the opening track to Abbey Road, written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for famed LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary, who was running for Governor of California at the time. It’s been suggested that each verse talks about one of the members of The Beatles or a self-portrait of Lennon himself. However, by his own admission, Lennon often simply filled his lyrics with non-sequiturs: 'The thing was created in the studio. It’s gobbledygook; 'Come Together' was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn’t come up with one. But I came up with this, 'Come Together', which would’ve been no good to him – you couldn’t have a campaign song like that, right?'" (ver aqui)