Released on the groundbreaking 1970 album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, "Working Class Hero" is a powerful, stripped-down ballad featuring just Lennon and his guitar.
"I just think its concept is revolutionary...I hope it’s about what ‘Give Peace A Chance’ was about," Lennon added. "But I don’t know — on the other hand, it might just be ignored. I think it’s for the people like me who are working class, who are supposed to be processed into the middle classes, or into the machinery. It’s my experience, and I hope it’s just a warning to people, ‘Working Class Hero.'"
As soon as you're born they make you feel smallBy giving you no time instead of it all'Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
They hurt you at home and they hit you at schoolThey hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool'Til you're so f—king crazy you can't follow their rules
"I put it in because it does fit," Lennon told Wenner. "I didn’t even realize there was two in till somebody pointed it out. And actually, when I sang it, I missed a bloody verse. I had to edit it in. But you do say ‘f—g crazy,’ don’t you? That’s how I speak. I was very near to it many times in the past, but I would deliberately not put it in, which is the real hypocrisy, the real stupidity. I would deliberately not say things, because it might upset somebody, or whatever I was frightened of."
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“If the mix in his headphones wasn’t exactly what he wanted, he would take them off and slam them into the wall,” Stephens said. “He wouldn’t say, ‘Can I have a bit more guitar?’ He would literally rip the cans off his head and smash them into the wall, then walk out of the studio.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Lennon himself resisted the idea that "Working Class Hero" was influenced by Dylan.
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