I Found Out

Song infobox
Name = I Found Out


Artist = John Lennon
Album = John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Released = 1970
track_no = 3
Recorded = ???
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:37
Writer = John Lennon
Label = Apple/EMI
Producer = John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector
prev = Hold On
prev_no = 2
next = Working Class Hero
next_no = 4

"I Found Out" is a song by British musician John Lennon, taken from his 1970 album "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band". The song is angry and intensely bitter, expressing Lennon's disillusionment with a world dominated by falsehood.

In another common theme on the album, the song is also critical of Lennon's former band The Beatles. During the late 1960s, bandmate George Harrison became interested in Eastern mysticism; Lennon dismisses Harrison's beloved gurus and Hare Krishna mantra as "pie in the sky." [ [http://www.superseventies.com/lennon1.html Super Seventies] ] Lennon also claims that he's "seen religion from Jesus to Paul." This double reference to Paul the Apostle and bandmate Paul McCartney implies that the Beatles were not loved for their music so much as worshipped as gods.

The instrumentation, style, and production of the song are typical of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band era work. The song features a low, rumbling tremolo guitar, thumping drums, a rolling, minimal bass line, and a scathing vocal delivery. The recording is bare-bones, in stark contrast to the heavy production of Lennon's later albums. It is one of the more blues based songs on Plastic Ono Band.

Personnel

The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows:cite book |first=John |last=Blaney |title=John Lennon: Listen To This Book |year=2005 |pages=58| publisher=Biddles Ltd. |location=Guildford, Great Britain |isbn=0-9544528-1-X]
*John Lennon - vocals, guitar
*Ringo Starr - drums
*Klaus Voormann - bass

Popular culture

The song was covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on "Working Class Hero".

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