It turns out that the small Weybridge town in the UK\u2019s Surrey area possibly lent an indirect hand in shaping one of\u00a0The Beatles\u2019 most creative cuts on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By 1967, The Beatles were well into their psychedelic phase, eagerly trying to capture the mind-expanding experiences had on LSD to record as well as charge full-throttle into the new artistic hinterland made fully possible by abandoning their live commitments once Beatlemania grew stale the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such lysergic terrain had been bottled for\u00a0Revolver<\/em>\u2019s acid-fried \u2018Tomorrow Never Knows\u2019, followed by \u2018Strawberry Fields Forever\u2019s surrealist wander and the kaleidoscopic\u00a0Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>\u00a0scoring the Summer of Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the preparation for their Magical Mystery Tour<\/em> TV project and accompanying soundtrack EP \u2013 released as an LP over in the States, padded out with various surrounding singles and B-sides \u2013 John Lennon penned an absurdist slice of lyrical intrigue inspired by his childhood love of Lewis Carroll\u2019s in a wry piss-take of the earnest Beatles fans pouring over their work for supposedly hidden meanings and clues in their recent output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Peppering\u2019 the piece with all kinds of comic references and backed by a myriad of collaged experimentation and sonic wizardry, \u2018I Am the Walrus\u2019 proved to stand as one of the most ambitious Beatles cuts yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In typical Beatles fashion, Lennon was toying with several song sketches at once, unable to flesh them out individually, and so sought to combine them into one number. Amid cartoon lyrical snapshots of \u201cSitting on a cornflake\u201d and \u201cSitting in an English garden waiting for the sun,\u201d a passing police car across his Kenwood residence in Weybridge\u2019s St George\u2019s Hill estate sowed the seeds for \u2018I Am the Walrus\u2019 \u201cMister City policeman\u201d refrain sung in the tempo and melody of the car\u2019s blaring siren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the estate\u2019s on-site luxuries was its private 27-hole heathland course. Wandering the St George\u2019s Hill Golf Club with BBC Radio 1 presenter Kenny Everett, the pair\u2019s acid trip across the grounds \u2013 whether they brought their clubs and attempted a swing on LSD we don\u2019t know \u2013 reportedly helped shape \u2018I Am the Walrus\u2019 lyrical weirdness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n