What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Probably my favourite Lennon track. 'How Do You Sleep' is a close second.

"How do You Sleep?",

when The Beatles split Paul started some subtle (and not so subtle digs at John) which led to this song.

for a bit of history on the feud:

1: Paul's first solo album "McCartney" cover.

show a spilt bowl of cherries, the old english phrase "live is a bowl of cherries" means 'all is well', the spilt cherries was a reference to the other three Beatles that their lives arent going to be so wonderful now the band has split.
theres also a song on the album called "teddy boy" about John who was a "mummy's boy", the title referring to john being a Ted or Teddy boy in the 1950s.

2: Ram, the second Paul solo set:

this is the back cover and RHS there is a picture of 'two beetles screwing eachother', a dig at John Lennon and the lawsuit against Paul by the other three.
on the album are two songs, "too many people" which is another nasty dig at john by Paul, the other song "3 legs" is basically about the other three not being able to go on without him which enraged George, Ringo and Paul especially.

3:  John then quickly wrote "how do you sleep?", a stinging attack on Paul in response to what Paul had been writing.
there is an in studio clip of the song where John turns to the camera and says "how do you sleep ya c--t" aimed at Paul.

4:  Paul then realised that John wasnt going to let him get away with subtle digs by coming out with a direct attack on him so Paul stopped the 'in-song' references.

5:  the following year Paul wrote "let me roll it" which later featured on Band On the Run as a peace offering in song, an apology if you will.

7:  John joked (a veiled truth) in an interview that all Paul only writes "silly love songs" so in response Paul wrote Silly Love Songs...
afraid after that he may have reignited the fuse, Paul and Linda did visit John to avoid further issues between them and they ended up meeting quite a few times prior to John's senseless murder.
im not saying they ever became close again but at least there was some dialogue between the two.