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Nowhere Man - For the 1995 US television series, starring Bruce Greenwood, see Nowhere Man.
"Nowhere Man" is a song by British 1960s rock group the Beatles, on their album Rubber Soul. Though the songwriting credit is Lennon-McCartney, it was penned by John Lennon and recorded on October 21 and 22, 1965. It is the first Beatles song not about love and marks the beginning of Lennon's philosophical ramblings in his music. The song is either about an actual person or an member of a rigid, straight-laced society whose life in reality had no purpose. Julia Phillips, in her expose You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, said the song was written about a businessman named Michael Brown. Lennon, however, claimed that he himself was the subject of song. He wrote it after wracking his brain in desperation for five hours, trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul. "I'd actually stopped trying to think of something," he said. "Then I thought of myself as Nowhere Man -- sitting in his nowhere land." Animated character In the animated movie Yellow Submarine (1968) the Beatles, on their way to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, encounter Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD, a strange little brown-furred man with a blue face, pink ears and tail, who lives in an empty Nowhere, speaks in rhyme and describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too". The Beatles sing the song Nowhere Man about him, then decide to take him Somewhere. He eventually helps them to defeat the Blue Meanies. The character is widely believed to be a parody of Dr. Jonathan Miller. References - Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Harper, New York: 1994, ISBN 006095065X
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