If my memory serves me right, Lennon’s “Sexy Sadie” was the maharishi mahesh yogi. Is this trans stuff like transcendental meditation, or sumpin’?
I’m “offended” by ringo and his absence of talent.
No, he was just ticked off at the Maharishi (see below). The original lyric was “maharish, what have you done” but he changed it to Sexy Sadie
Wiki:
Lennon originally wanted to title the song “Maharishi”, but changed the title to “Sexy Sadie” at George Harrison’s request. Lennon was disillusioned after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had allegedly made a sexual advance towards Mia Farrow, attending the course the Maharishi was teaching at his ashram. (Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Cynthia Lennon later said that they thought the story, which had come from Alexis Mardas, had been fabricated.) Lennon once said of the song: “That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him, ‘Sexy Sadie,’ instead of (sings) ‘Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool...’ I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I’d like them to be.” He told Rolling Stone that when the Maharishi asked why he was leaving, he replied, “Well, if you’re so cosmic, you’ll know why.”
After returning from India, Lennon scratched the lyrics into a piece of wood, with the original title “Maharishi”. The recorded version changed only after Harrison insisted that if the song were used he wanted the name changed and persuaded Lennon to change the title to “Sexy Sadie”
Meanwhile I’m seeing now the band Nickleback is threatening to PUT ON a concert in NC if the anti-trans law is not struck down! Kind of “we’ll play there to make a political statement” instead of refusing to play...