For Lennon, hearing blues, R&B, and early rock ’n’ roll, music rooted in African American culture, was one of the most transformative experiences of his life. Of course, second only to meeting his wife, Yoko Ono.
“Liverpool is a seaport city and many Blacks live there. The ugly scars of an earlier, racist-colonial period in England still mar the ports. Slave rings are still anchored to the front of the docks there,” he said.
Lennon explained that his musical tastes were inspired by the sailors and travelers passing through Liverpool. “I grew up with blues music, country and western music. The sailors came in, brought folk music, -all kinds. I was at college and listened to the music.”
“The amazing thing about America was (in 1963-64) people asked ‘where is the influence-who influenced us?’ And all the musicians we named were Black but, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. We didn’t know anything about the race records business then. Music to us was music.”
“And we were talking about all these Black people and the questioners’ faces fell. They said, ‘Oh, you don’t go for The Beach Roys, Jan & Dean?’ And we said, ‘C’mon man, that’s rubbish’ One thing we always did was to tell where we got our music from.”
Chuck Berry’s influence on Lennon, and The Beatles, was undeniable. Take “Come Together,” the song borrows the lyric “Here come old flat-top” and echoes the rhythm of Berry’s “You Can’t Catch Me.”
Berry’s fingerprints are also all over “Back in the U.S.S.R.” In 1968, speaking on Radio Luxemburg, even Paul McCartney admitted, “Chuck Berry once did a song called ‘Back In The USA,’ which is very American, very Chuck Berry.”
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