Mimi Smith

I think he liked this one, is what I read.

It was written at Aunt Mimi's, and I think that plays a role in it, because she didn't approve of them.

So to me, I felt like...

Why don't you get a real job, John? Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like they were trying to write a song that like Aunt Mimi would approve of, you know, while they were in her house.

So it has that like grandmother's B&B quality to it for me.

Now, the thing I like about it is in the middle eight, as the Beatles call it, the middle eight, where they flub the lyrics or John does.

But basically, John's dad left him when he was a kid and his mother couldn't take care of him.

So he ended up living with his aunt Mimi.

And, um, then he, when he was 16, I think he started to reconnect with his mother for the first time.

And then she got hit by an off-duty police officer in a car and died.

Not something that you defer college for to chase.

Well, there's the famous Aunt Mimi quote to John Lennon when he's ruined some opportunity of his or something.

He goes, well, the guitar's all well and good, John, but it won't pay the bills.

And obviously, you know, people say these things now going like, ha ha, you

I'm not sure why Kenyon didn't mention to it, because I certainly put it in his notes, but Mark Lewis mentions in his book all these years that it was John that had that religious motto hanging in his home.

Actually, the home Mendis, which is the home of Aunt Mimi.

Anyway, enough of my talking at you.

Let's get back to the program.