THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
473-John Lennon-Working Class Hero.
1970-Never released as a single in the UK.
Best Bit-At 0.55.Why did Lennon curse on the song?Yoko Ono explained in 1998.’He told me,”That’s part of being working class.It won’t be working class if what you say is all very clean and proper.’
Working Class Hero is track 4 side 1 on ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,’his first Album after the break up of The Beatles.Lennon said ‘The song is about working class individuals being processed into the middle classes,into the machine.’
The song is influenced by the Bob Dylan song ‘Masters Of War’ which in turn was based on Jean Richie’s arrangement of the traditional English Folk song ‘Nottamun Town.’
It has been said that Lennon obsessed about the recording of this song for many days,singing an endless amount of takes,somewhere between 100-130.
‘They hate you if your clever and despise a fool.’
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