Lennon wrote the song to confuse people who read too much into the lyrical meanings of Beatles apple and onion, which annoyed him. With this in mind, the lyrics are intended to confuse the listener. I threw the line in—”the Walrus was Paul”—just to confuse everybody a bit more.
It could have been “the fox terrier is Paul”. I mean, it’s just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there’d been so much gobbledygook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that. Glass Onion” was a name suggested by Lennon for the Iveys, a group who signed to Apple in 1968 and later became Badfinger. The song was one of several recorded as a demo at George Harrison’s Esher home in 1968 before the recording sessions for the “White Album”. 2018 deluxe edition of the “White Album”. This is the first track on the album to feature Ringo Starr on drums.
Starr briefly left the group during recording sessions for the album, and drums on both “Back in the U. Dear Prudence” were played by the other band members. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its release, Jacob Stolworthy of The Independent listed “Glass Onion” at number 10 in his ranking of the White Album’s 30 tracks. He wrote of the song: “Lennon embraced his cheeky side with ‘Glass Onion’, a self-referential track which parades as symbolic. Instead, it was designed to trick fans into thinking their songs meant more than they actually do.
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