I love to find that, even in this day of concrete, there are still alive horses and places where grass grows in unlimited quantities and sky has got clear air in it. Scotland has that. It's just there without anyone touching it. It just grows. I'm relieved to find that it isn't all pollution. It isn't all the Hudson. It's not all the drug problem.
(Paul McCartney, April 16th 1971, interview with Richard Merryman for Life Magazine)
I'm gonna get me a good night's sleep Living in a home in the heart of the country I'm gon' move, I'm gon' go Gon' tell everyone I know Living in a home in the heart of the country
(Heart Of The Country, May 1971, ©Paul and Linda McCartney)
He’s in Scotland. He told me he doesn’t like English cities anymore. So that’s how it is.
(John Lennon, September 1971, interview with Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld)
Tell me, babe, how do you sleep at night? <…> How do you sleep How do you sleep you cunt
(How Do You Sleep? May-June/9 September 1971)
JOHN: Yeah, about, uh – “you took your lucky break and broke it in two.” Now, if that doesn’t mean what it says, I don’t know what. Also, the song ends with, “we believe that we can’t be wrong.” So I wrote a rep– a reciprocal song. And I think some of the funniest lines on the album are, “The biggest thing he’d, whatever, the biggest thing he’d ever done was ‘Yesterday’”, and it was actually [Allen] Klein’s line, one line of it – “and since you’ve gone you’re just ‘Another Day’.” [laughs] I think it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard<…> I was, uh – I wrote it in immediate response to when I heard his messages coming off his album, you know. <…> It’s an angry song, like— <…> But I – I think it’s quite funny, and I was laughing when we were making it, and listening to it, you know. [long pause] But… I was laughing at his later, but first, I was saying, “Oh! Hmm. Oh, I see. Oh, that’s what he thinks,” huffing and puffing. That’s the first thing I heard on his album, was all this – this message, you see.
(John Lennon, September 9th, 1971, interview with Howard Smith)
John: Oh, he’d [Allen Klein] love it if Paul would come back. I think he was hoping he would for years and years. He thought that if he did something, to show Paul that he could do it, Paul would come around. But no chance. I mean, I want him to come out of it, too, you know. He will one day. I give him five years, I’ve said that. In five years he’ll wake up. <…> Yoko: And people don’t understand, you know. There’s so many groups that constantly announce they’re going to split, they’re going to split, and they can announce it every year, and it doesn’t mean they’re going to split. But people don’t understand what an extraordinary position the Beatles are in, you know. In every way. They’re in such an extraordinary position that they’re more insecure than other people. And so Klein thinks he’ll give Paul two years Linda-wise, you know. And John said, “No, Paul treasures things like children, things like that. It will be longer.” And of course, John was right.
(John Lennon and Yoko Ono, September 1971, interview with Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld)
Love is strange Lot of people Take it for a game Once you get it You never wanna quit <…> Many people Don't understand They think loving Is money in the hand
(Love Is Strange, December 1971)
No one else will ever see How much faith you have in me Only fools would disagree that it's so Some people never know Like a fool I'm far away Every night I hope and pray I'll be coming home to stay and it's so Some people never know Some people can sleep at nighttime Believing that love is a lie <…> Only love can stand the test Only you outshine the rest Only fools take second best*, but it's so Some people never know
(Some People Never Know, December 1971)
*I ain't no fool and I don't take what I don't want
