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John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth [HiQ]
"Gimme Some Truth" is a protest song written
and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine.
Like several songs on the album, such as the title track "Imagine" ," "Gimme Some Truth" has blatant political references
emerging from the time it was written,
during the latter years of the Vietnam War.
The song expresses Lennon's frustration with deceptive politicians ("short-haired
yellow-bellied sons of Tricky Dicky"),
chauvinism ("tight-lipped condescending
mommy's little chauvinists"),
and acts of military violence such as
the My Lai massacre.
The song encapsulates some
widely held feelings of the time,
when people were heavily participating
in protest rallies against the government.
Lennon's dig at US President Richard Nixon, referring to him in the lyrics of the song
as "Tricky Dicky," proved to be increasingly
relevant after the song's release, when in 1972
the Watergate scandal erupted.
"Tricky Dicky" became a popular
nickname for Nixon during the Watergate hearings,
and came into widespread usage.
The song references the nursery rhyme"Old Mother Hubbard," using the rhyme's content (about a woman going to get her dog a bone, only to discover that her cupboard is empty) as a
political parallel to the events of the day, a practice that goes all the way back to when
the rhyme was originally printed in 1805. The song's reference to "soft soap"
employs that slang verb in its classic sense, i.e., insincere flattery that attempts to convince someone to do
or to think something, as in the caseof politicians who use specious or beguiling rhetoric to quell public
unrest or to propagandize unfairly. Work on the song began as early as January 1969
during The Beatles' Get Back sessions,which would eventually evolve into "Let It Be".
Bootleg recordings of the group performing songs thatwould eventually go onto the members' solo
recordings feature a few performancesof "Gimme Some Truth."
John Lennon's fellow former Beatle George Harrison plays lead guitar on the song,
with Klaus Voormann (a longtime friend
of the Beatles and designer of the
cover for their Revolver album) on bass.
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Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby //
Live At The BBC // Disc 2 //
Track 20 (MONO)
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