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6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
An absurd National Rifle Association motto takes Lennon on a voyage of Freudian concupiscence.
Tori Amos: “In 2000 I covered this song for my album Strange Little Girls, a collection that reworked, with a feminist perspective, songs made famous by men. I included it because 30 years later, this song had a social commentary for America. Then we had the Bush father and son comedy team around, with their close connections with the NRA. In the CD booklet there’s a picture of me looking like J-Lo meets Beyonce, with long blonde crimped hair."
"I was playing the call girl character that Mark Chapman saw the night before he used a gun on the man who wrote Happiness Is A Warm Gun. It was a way of bringing awareness to Columbine and those other tragedies - that guns have been used in a way that could've been prevented if the NRA didn't have the control it does. It's hard to write a song that has a social commentary. There are songs you listen to on the radio and you want to throw raw meat at them and say, shut up you sanctimonious arsehole! A song that can make a statement without preaching is rare, and this one did it. The Beatles had the ability to make you think about the world, not just your own little world. They could put the microcosm and macrocosm in the same song. They sang of drugs and guns without telling me what to feel about it. That’s genius.”
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008
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