cold turkey by John Lennon

Genre: Rock
Year: 1969

"Cold Turkey" is a song written by John Lennon, recorded by The Plastic Ono Band, and released as a single in October 1969. According to Peter Brown in his book The Love You Make, the song was written in a "creative outburst" following Lennon and Yoko Ono going "cold turkey" from their brief heroin addictions.Brown, Peter. The Love You Make: An Insiders Story of The Beatles. McGraw-Hill, 1983. New American Library, 2002. 331. Brown also states that Lennon presented the song to Paul McCartney as a potential single by The Beatles, but was refused and released it as a Plastic Ono Band single with sole writing credits to him. It was the first song John Lennon ever wrote that he took sole credit for; his previous compositions were Read full article at wikipedia.org

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