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‘Dear Prudence’: The Story Behind The Beatles’ Song
Udiscovermusic ^ | August 28, 2025 | McGuinness

Posted on 08/28/2025 10:18:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Dear Prudence
1 posted on 08/28/2025 10:18:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Beautiful piece of music, so lyrical, evocative and innovative. One of Lennon’s best, I’d say.


2 posted on 08/28/2025 10:35:51 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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yeah that was a good one. i’ve heard it so many times, i can still hear the whole thing in my head.

no idea about the wierd back story though. i just saw kids in my old neighborhood going around knocking on doors and asking friends out to play. great song. very atmospheric as they say. so is julia.


3 posted on 08/28/2025 11:07:07 PM PDT by dadfly
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Look around………


4 posted on 08/28/2025 11:47:35 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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I like the Jerry Garcia’s Band rendition of this song.


5 posted on 08/28/2025 11:57:07 PM PDT by week 71
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Dear Prudence has always one of my very favorites. I loved the Beatles having grown up listening to them. I was always partial to the songs written and sung by John but don’t get me wrong, Paul’s certainly no slouch.


6 posted on 08/29/2025 12:08:50 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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Mike Love claims that “Back in the USSR” was also written at that Maharishi pow-wow, with him making lyrical suggestions to McCartney.


7 posted on 08/29/2025 12:10:22 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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Yes, it's a parody of California Girls and Chuck Berry's Back in the U.S.A..
8 posted on 08/29/2025 12:40:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Both of which are far better songs than Back in the USSR.


9 posted on 08/29/2025 1:18:43 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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“California Girls” is bubble gum pop with simple chord(s)...and later covered by David Lee Roth.

“Back in the USSR” has nothing to do with Chuck Berry’s “Back in the USA”


10 posted on 08/29/2025 1:24:33 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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“Back in the USSR” has nothing to do with Chuck Berry’s “Back in the USA”.

Didn’t say it did.

I understand that in Hell “Hey Jude” plays 24/7 on the PA.


11 posted on 08/29/2025 1:51:44 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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“Hey Jude” was a very good song...until they began droning on and on and on and on and....


12 posted on 08/29/2025 1:59:31 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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The song is beautiful...memorable and one of their best.
As a group, they were amazing. Every evolution was unique and artistically stunning.

And here we are, nearly 60 years from them, still amazed by their songs.


13 posted on 08/29/2025 2:54:02 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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Wonder if she was messed up on LSD and wouldn’t come out and play?


14 posted on 08/29/2025 3:57:44 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ship)
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Pretty song; I like asking GROK the meaning of songs. Here is part of what is said about Dear Prudence.

Interpretation: Beyond its literal inspiration, the song can be seen as a broader metaphor for overcoming withdrawal or emotional seclusion, urging someone to engage with the world and find joy in simple pleasures.
15 posted on 08/29/2025 4:07:57 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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Having grown up in that era, I’m certain that everything those people did included heavy doses of all types of drugs. That was their lifestyle. Like, breathing oxygen and sleeping.


16 posted on 08/29/2025 4:46:36 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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Dear Prudence always seemed a bit lengthy for me. Yer Blues, Glass Onion, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Savoy Truffle and Long, Long, Long are my top 5 from the “White Album”. I don’t care what the story is behind them, I just like the way they sound.


17 posted on 08/29/2025 5:33:32 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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I think My Friends by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young are very similar to the Dear Prudence song. Same chord structure and picking style.


18 posted on 08/29/2025 5:35:54 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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Savoy Truffle is a most creative song written by Harrison about a box of candy and his friend’s (Clapton’s) “addiction” to sweets. Most creative.


19 posted on 08/29/2025 5:41:05 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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Get up and do the “Savoy Truffle Shuffle”!


20 posted on 08/29/2025 5:46:37 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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