#also it proves that he wasn’t satisfied with how help! turned out… so ☕️

[elvispresley]

“Yes. That's mine. I wrote it. It was getting hard to be someone then. I was grossly overweight and needed help and only one critic/reviewer ever spotted it and it was A Aronowitz in the New York Post. He said 'Johnny' or whatever he was calling me, is crying out for help. And I didn't realise that I was at the time. I was just writing a song for the movie. I wrote it 'Bam! Bam!' like that, and got the single.

It was really getting weird then. The whole Beatles thing was just beyond comprehension and I was eating and drinking like a pig and I was fat as a pig, dissatisfied with myself and subconsciously crying for help. It was like the Fat Elvis period. You see the movie, he's very fat, very insecure and completely loss of self.

I'm singing about when I was younger and all the rest of it. Now the positive thing is, yes, yes, I'm very positive. I also go through deep depressions where I'd like to jump out the window, you know? I am an amazingly emotional person. It's becoming easier to deal with as I get older and I realise, I try -I don't know whether control is the right word - or l've grown up a little, or you calm down a little but the swings and the motion from ecstatic highs to suicidal depressions are actually physically and mentally wearing and I've always had it, all my life.

I remember Maureen Cleave, a writer - the one who did the famous 'We're more popular than Jesus' story in the Evening Standard - asked me, 'Why don't you ever write songs with more than one syllable?' So in 'Help!' there are two- or three-syllable words and I very proudly showed them to her and she still didn't like them. I was insecure then, and things like that happened more than once. I never considered it before. So after that I put a few words with three syllables in, but she didn't think much of them when I played it to her, anyway.

I don't like the recording too much; we did it too fast, trying to be commercial... I might do 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'Help!' again, because I like them and I can sing them.”

— John Lennon on the song Help! and his mental state

#TW fat shaming #TW suicide #this quote just broke my heart #it really shows what he thought about himself and it’s just… sigh. #also it proves that he wasn’t satisfied with how help! turned out… so ☕️ #john lennon #the beatles #text #❤️‍🩹