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Tag Archives: John Lennon

‘I Want to Tell You’: Beatles Songs for Talking About Mental Wellbeing

29 Sunday Jul 2018

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A Day in the Life, George Harrison, John Lennon, Mental Health, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

When it’s difficult to initiate conversations about mental health, it might be easier to talk about mental health through the medium of Beatles songs. We will have to pretend, however, that none of these songs are about drugs. But many of the Beatles songs express complex and contradictory states of mind, which can be quite reassuring and illuminating.

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A Day in the (Academic) Life

18 Friday Aug 2017

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A Day in the Life, Academic Writing, Frustration, John Lennon, News Headlines, Paul McCartney

A pastiche of the Lennon/McCartney song depicting the quotidian drudgery of writing a PhD, written whilst waiting in vain for a parcel to be delivered on time (to be sung to the tune of the Lennon/McCartney song A Day in the Life).

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