Desirable DS, one page both sides, 8 x 13, October 15, 1968. Memorandum of agreement between Northern Songs Limited and Maclen (Music) Limited, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, in which the former party will be assigned "the full copyright for all countries of the World for the duration and all extensions" of the "musical work or composition entitled—‘Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.'" Signed at the conclusion in black felt tip by Lennon, and countersigned in black ballpoint by Maclen representative Neil Aspinall. In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks.
Recorded early in the sessions for the White Album, ‘Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey’ typifies Lennon and the Beatles' return to a rock sound in 1968 after their psychedelic period. The lyrics contain sayings the Beatles heard from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, with whom they studied Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. In his subsequent comments on the song, Lennon said the song also addressed his bandmates' initial reaction to his affair with Yoko Ono. Lennon referred to the song in the final interview he gave before his murder in December 1980, saying: ‘As I put it in my last incarnation, 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.’ It means really that one cannot be absolutely oneself in public, because the fact that you're in public makes you...you have to have some kind of defense, or whatever it is.’
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