Glass Onion

Song infobox
Name = Glass Onion
Artist = The Beatles
Album =

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Border = yes
Released = 22 November 1968
track_no = 3 of disc 1
Recorded = 11 September 1968
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:17
Writer = Lennon/McCartney
Label = Apple Records
Producer = George Martin
Tracks = Side one
#"Back in the U.S.S.R."
#"Dear Prudence"
#"Glass Onion"
#"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
#"Wild Honey Pie"
#"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
#"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
#"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"Side two
#

"Martha My Dear"
#"I'm So Tired"
#"Blackbird"
#"Piggies"
#"Rocky Raccoon"
#"Don't Pass Me By"
#"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
#"I Will"
#"Julia"Side three
#"Birthday"
#"Yer Blues"
#"Mother Nature's Son"
#"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
#"Sexy Sadie"
#"Helter Skelter"
#"Long, Long, Long"Side four
#

"Revolution 1"
#"Honey Pie"
#"Savoy Truffle"
#"Cry Baby Cry"
#"Revolution 9"
#"Good Night"Extra tracklisting
Album = Love
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Get Back"
prev_no = 2
this_track = "Glass Onion"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Eleanor Rigby/Julia (transition)"
next_no = 4

"Glass Onion" ["Glass onion" is British slang for a "monocle".] is a song by The Beatles from "The White Album" primarily written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song references "I Am the Walrus", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool on the Hill", "There's A Place", "Within You Without You", and "Fixing a Hole".

The song's "The Walrus was Paul" lyric is both a reference to "I Am the Walrus" and Lennon saying "something nice to Paul" in response to changes in their relationship at that time.cite book |first=Jann S |last=Wenner |authorlink=Jann Wenner |title=Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in Rolling Stone magazine) |year=2000 |pages=87 |publisher=Verso |location=London |isbn=1-85984-600-9] Later, the line was interpreted as a "clue" in the "Paul is dead" urban legend that alleged McCartney died in 1966 during the recording of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. Ironically, the line is preceded with "Well, here's another clue for you all".

Lennon was asked if there was a deeper meaning to the mysterious lyrics:

This is the first track on the White Album to feature Ringo Starr on drums. Starr briefly left the group during recording sessions for the album and was replaced on drums by McCartney on both "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "Dear Prudence".

Personnel

*John Lennon – double-tracked vocal, piano
*Paul McCartney – bass, piano, recorder
*George Harrison – lead guitar
*Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine
*George Martin – string arrangement
*Henry Datyner – violin
*Eric Bowie – violin
*Norman Lederman – violin
*Ronald Thomas – violin
*John Underwood – viola
*Keith Cummings – viola
*Eldon Fox – cello
*Reginald Kilby – cello
*Alex Ashtiani – banjo :Credits per Ian MacDonaldcite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |year=2005 |pages=311-314 |edition=Second Revised Edition |publisher=Pimlico (Rand) |location=London |isbn=1-844-13828-3]

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