what... the h..l! why do you want us to think at mrs.Tatcher listening this song? (true or not)...I romatically prefere to think at Sadie as a "Lou reed-ian femme fatale"....

From Wikipedia:
Originally titled "Maharishi", The Beatles changed the title to "Sexy Sadie" to avoid possible litigation as the song's lyrics portray the Maharishi in a less than favorable light. John Lennon became discouraged after the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had allegedly made a pass at one of the female members of their entourage. John Lennon once said about this 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."
According to Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of "Sexy Sadie" features Lennon demonstrating the song's original lyrics to the rest of the band: "Maharishi, you fucking cunt/Who the fuck do you think you are?"

HAHAHAHAHAHA .... that's pretty funny


ThePoose wrote:

I now find myself wishing not to hear the mashup versions of these songs.

Thanks for playing this RP !

I once had a very hot girlfriend who used to love to make me scream in pain. She was a sexy sadist.

Geecheeboy wrote:

I love milk - don't take my milk away, please.

Sadie came along and turned me on.
And for that, I am most thankful.

What's with all the references to Margaret Thatcher? I heard it was John's sarcastic ode to the Maharishi. I guess it's true when John says, "Sexy Sadie, you've made a fool of everyone!

I had an Aunt Sadie, she was a real life Old Maid.

mrrmt wrote:

Yea, Charles Manson's Sadie
tee hee

Not to sound terribly naive and politically ignorant, but can't we just imagine this song is really about a hot lady called Sadie? it makes it much more enjoyable. Since I read all this commentary I imagine Margaret Thatcher boppin' about and that just isn't much fun.

Hannio wrote:

Socialist cesspool!?! Man, I've heard the stereotypical view that Americans don't do irony so well, but I'm really, really hoping that this is a wind-up. And while we are quoting The Beatles to play this debate out, 'Taxman' refers to both Mr Wilson (the Labour Prime Minister at the time) and Mr Heath (the Conservative Leader at the time) with what I take to be equal disdain.

algrif wrote:

Never mind that she helped Britain out of the socialist cesspool it was in the 60's(ever listen to a song called "Taxman"?). SHE STOPPED FREE MILK FOR UNDERPRIVILIGED SCHOOL KIDS!!! BOOO! HISS!

algrif wrote:

No, I'm sorry to disagree with you, but this is bad history. This song was released during the fourth year of a Labour Government, and Thatcher's only experience of government before this was as Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Pensions, hardly a post in which she showed her future path. Some of her votes in parliament during the 1960s were also pretty progressive and permissive: she backed the Labour Government's bills to decriminalise homosexuality and to legalise abortion. She didn't make a significant impact outside the Conservative Party until 1970, when Labour lost the election and she became Secretary of State for Education, and it was here that she scrapped the school milk and all the rest, before going on to attack the health service, education, and the trade unions, embark on a public-relations driven war in the Falklands, and spend billions on nuclear arms. I hate her and her legacy as much as the next sensible person, but please don't give her an importance she couldn't have had in 1968.

drover wrote:

It makes sense until you realize that Thatcher was basically a political nobody until the mid-70s and this song was released in 1968. A more common and more plausible explanation is that it reflects John's disillusionment with the Maharishi after their trip to India.


algrif wrote:


Maharishi, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone.

algrif wrote:

But that's a good thing, right? Because milk is terrible stuff, not what the industry wants us to think it is. Oh I get it, she meant to deprive them, yet she was doing them a favor. By meaning to be mean, she was being nice, but some people believe milk is good, so she was bad, but she was good because milk is bad... Now I am confused...let's just go on to the next song.

drover wrote:
Sorry to disagree. Far from being a political nobody, she was already known as the ax-woman (and other unprintable names) in '68 She was the one who stopped free milk for underpriveliged school kids, for example. And we all knew there was a great danger that this madwoman could eventually get to be Britains first woman PM. Unfortunately, this happened.

dear friend, yours is one of the worst comments I've ever read in my whole life...please tell that you don't like the music for any reason of taste but....please, what do you mean with "sheep" referring to those artists?....a man with soul and feelings and doubts or any is something awful for you man?.....I don't belive you don't feel the same things....poor man! friend2dogs wrote:

This must be the music for sheep set.
First Dave Matthews then the beetles, let me guess.. Coldplay next.
Music for those afraid of their own shadow.

is it just me... or is the sound on this recording distorted? I know it's funky on the album, but this seems worse than I remember. maybe part of the 128K translation?

I swear if I ever get another female cat... I will name her Sexie Sadie.

algrif wrote:
It makes sense until you realize that Thatcher was basically a political nobody until the mid-70s and this song was released in 1968. A more common and more plausible explanation is that it reflects John's disillusionment with the Maharishi after their trip to India.

I read somewhere they first wrote this song as Moody Maggie, or something like that. It was supposed to be a criticism of M. Thatcher. Just look at the rest of the lyrics. It makes sense.

That's the Funniest thing I've ever read on here.DMay wrote:

My first girlfriend's name was Sadie. She's off married now with kids like me. But still there's always that corner in your heart…

Too bad these guys never made it big like the Monkees.

Never forget: NO ONE wrote music like this before John Lennon. All hail Lennon!