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Ben Ramon said
Mean Mr Mustard is certainly interesting in that it's a rare example of a John song that could easily have been Paul's. The whimsical characters and randomness of lines like "keeps a ten bob note up his nose" are pure Paul.

I think both this and Polythene Pam could never have been written by Paul. The characters are quite scuzzy, and Paul didn't really write scuzzy. Like you said, Paul did whimsical. Even his mass murderer, Maxwell, was whimsical. MMM and PP are, to my mind, the purest expression of John, the author of In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, in his songwriting. ...]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:09:29 +0000 BBCSessions1963 on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67417 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67417 Surely it's John's song, but his bad memory is quite significant. I'm just wondering how he remembered all those memories of his early life, but not something that was released 5 years ago, and I do have to agree that he seem to trash The Beatles in 1970 with accusations of Paul "messing up" Strawberry Fields.

]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:59:45 +0000 Ben Ramon on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67413 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67413 Mean Mr Mustard is certainly interesting in that it's a rare example of a John song that could easily have been Paul's. The whimsical characters and randomness of lines like "keeps a ten bob note up his nose" are pure Paul.

]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:07:59 +0000 DrBeatle on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67375 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67375 He also trashed everything he and the band had done...that interview is entertaining, but I take everything in it with a grain...no, a CHUNK of salt.

]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:23:20 +0000 vonbontee on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67372 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67372 Also, he just plain had a bad memory about certain things - in that 1970 Wenner interview, he apparently couldn't remember Revolver's title, or whether it came before or after Rubber Soul. He may have just forgot about MMM.

]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:53:40 +0000 DrBeatle on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67354 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67354 You can never take what John said about the Beatles years seriously after 1970 :lol: MMM is John's, no question about it.

]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:26:47 +0000 mja6758 on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67285 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67285 Nope, Mean Mr. Mustard was definitely John. It was written in India, and demoed for The White Album (included on Anthology 3).

]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:35:27 +0000 Egroeg Evoli on Mean Mr. Mustard- John or Paul? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67283 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/mean-mr-mustard-john-or-paul/#p67283 I think John once said that his contributions to the medley were Sun King and Polythene Pam, but I always thought that MMM was John's song. Am I wrong?

EDIT: I just remembered that this site would have the answer (me = forgetful), so I checked, and I now know that John composed it. Does that mean he was wrong when he said that SK and PP were his only contributions?

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