How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon song)

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"How Do You Sleep?" is a song by English rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine. It is a diatribe against his former Beatles bandmate and songwriting partner Paul McCartney, peppered with sharp accusations that he is creatively "dead" and has not learned anything during his years in the band. Over the years, Lennon has claimed sparse and varied motives for writing the song. The two's relationship had grown bitter after the Beatles split apart in 1970; that year, Lennon gave an interview to Rolling Stone in which he bluntly excoriated McCartney's personality and the Beatles' work. A year later, McCartney released Ram, a collaborative album with his wife Linda. Some of its songs' verses such as "You took your lucky break and broke it in two" (from "Too Many People") and other bits of the album struck Lennon as veiled insults, and he set out to respond with a song of his own. According to an eyewitness account, Lennon's wife Yoko Ono wrote most of the lyrics and his manager...

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