But you do say ‘fucking crazy,’ don’t you? That’s how I speak. And actually when I sang it, I missed a bloody verse. I didn’t even realise there was two in till somebody pointed it out. The words were not printed on the album’s lyric sheet.ĭiscussing this, Lennon said: “I put it in because it does fit. Twice in the song, Lennon uses the profane word “fucking”, first to give potency to the adjective “crazy” and then to deride (from the perspective of the ruling class) the “peasants”, who are the real “working class heroes.” Naturally, Lennon’s record label EMI were not best pleased with their inclusion. Yet this was not the only controversy surrounding ‘Working Class Hero’. But what is truly unacceptable from a so-called “man of the people” is to use just derogatory terms to describe them. Whether Lennon felt that gay people – and what we can only assume he means as single women – are excluded from joining in the conversation of the working class, as he may believe they themselves are from a different higher class altogether, remains to be seen.
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