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-->''Woke up\\

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-->''Woke -->Woke up\\



All day long''

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All day long''long
* OdeToFood: Shipper reports that Instant Karma is a "popular English breakfast drink" and the classic Lennon song of that title is a celebration of it.
-->Instant Karma\\
Mix it with milk\\
Goes down your throat\\
Smooth as silk



* WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Used word-for-word in a comment about the John and Yoko relationship, by psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, of all people.



-->''Pneumonia ceilings, pneumonia floors\\
Daddy ain't gonna take it no more''

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-->''Pneumonia -->Pneumonia ceilings, pneumonia floors\\
Daddy ain't gonna take it no more''more
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** Writing about the breakup, Shipper says "Historians could only recall two previous instances when the world had mourned a loss this deeply. One was the assassination of President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, and, second, when Creator/MartinLandau and Barbara Bain left ''Series/MissionImpossible''."

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** Writing about the breakup, Shipper says "Historians could only recall two previous instances when the world had mourned a loss this deeply. One was the assassination of President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, and, second, when Creator/MartinLandau and Barbara Bain Creator/BarbaraBain left ''Series/MissionImpossible''."
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* BittersweetEnding: The album and tour [[spoiler:are flops, but the guys realize they don't have to be prisoners of the past anymore.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: The album and tour [[spoiler:are flops, but the guys realize they don't have to be prisoners of the past anymore. And at least they're friends again.]]
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** Which leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance. These may seem corny, like the names [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]makes up to troll Moe. But when you consider that this story is supposed to have been made up by someone who lost the notes of an interview and had to make most of it up from scratch, it makes sense that the writer made up these filler names on the fly!

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** Which leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance. These may seem corny, like the names [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]makes Simpson]] makes up to troll Moe. But when you consider that this story is supposed to have been made up by someone who lost the notes of an interview and had to make most of it up from scratch, it makes sense that the writer made up these filler names on the fly!
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** Which leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance. These may seem corny, like the names [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]makes up to troll Moe. But when you consider that this story is supposed to have been made up by someone who lost the notes of an interview and had to make most of it up from scratch, it makes sense that the writer made up these filler names on the fly!
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''Paperback Writer—The Life and Times of the Beatles, the Spurious Chronicle of Their Rise to Stardom, Their Triumphs and Disasters, Plus the Amazing Story of Their Ultimate Reunion'' is a 1977 novel by Mark Shipper. It's a farcical, absurdist AlternateHistory and AffectionateParody of Music/TheBeatles. It also satirizes rock icons like Music/BobDylan and Music/TheRollingStones, and more generally, the cliches of rock music journalism.

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''Paperback Writer—The Life and Times of the Beatles, the Spurious Chronicle of Their Rise to Stardom, Their Triumphs and Disasters, Plus the Amazing Story of Their Ultimate Reunion'' is a 1977 novel by Mark Shipper. It's a farcical, absurdist AlternateHistory and AffectionateParody of Music/TheBeatles. It also satirizes rock icons like Music/BobDylan and Music/TheRollingStones, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, and more generally, the cliches of rock music journalism.
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* FilkSong:
** The classic ''Sgt. Pepper'' track "She's Leaving [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Holmes]]".
** One of John's contributions to the reunion album is a song about ''Series/GilligansIsland''.

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