Which Beatles song was inspired by an advertising jingle?
It’s a throwaway, a piece of garbage...from a Kellogg’s cereal commercial. I always had the TV on very low in the background when I was writing and it came over ...{ i n this } song . During his Weybridge years, John Lennon was a British version of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Though extraordinarily privileged in material terms he felt alienated: a rich, successful young man angry at the suburban world he found himself in. This anger was largely expressed through petty acts of passive aggression against those surrounding him. In the conventional Beatles narrative, John Lennon was the wild man, with an artistic bent and a taste for the avant garde. Paul, in contrast, was the son-in-law choice: cute, sensible and with the common touch. In reality, the roles were reversed. McCartney spent his Beatle downtime careering around Swinging London in his Mini Cooper, the pop world's Toad of Toad Hall. He was a fixture of the hip c...
