How I Won the War

And they had a feature about it.

It was like, John Lennon was in How I Won the War and explored his expanding spiritual self.

Paul did The Family Way.

George went to India.

And it was a little bit sarcastic.

But leaving that aside...

It's bizarre, isn't it? So as we know, John did How I Won the War.

Paul went to Kenya, I think, and then did Family Way.

And if you recognize it from Shaun of the Dead, that association probably isn't helping.

It appears in the beginning of the film, setting the mood before you've had much time to settle in.

The place that the specials were singing about was frightening for reasons that people knew all too well.

The band came from Coventry, England, and songwriter Jerry Dammers had been watching business close, work disappeared, and frustration built, both at home and in the places that the band toured.

Before we get to that rumor, listen to the entrance.

To me, that feels like stepping into a memory that won't quite sit still.

John Lennon began writing Strap Afields Forever in Spain while making the film How I Won the War.

in the studio and went through substantially different arrangements until John decided he liked the beginning of one recording and the later portion of another.

[upbeat music] When Pepper was released, Tynan was on hiatus from the Observer after several years as their film critic, but he still contributed the occasional article or interview.

In October 1967, for example, the Observer published an interview he did with director Richard Lester and screenwriter Charles Wood about their new film, How I Won the War, which of course starred John Lennon in a supporting role.

In other words, Tynan was certainly not writing a critical review of Pepper in the summer of 1967.

The music critic at the Times continued to be William Mann, who in 1963 famously reviewed the release of With the Beatles and praised Lennon and McCartney's writing.