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BigmanPigman

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Wed Oct 4, 2017, 01:00 PM Oct 2017

Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles. [View all]

John Lennon was anti gun and wrote this song after seeing the title on a gun magazine and thought it was an insane thing to say since it means you just shot something or someone. A few years later he told Dick Cavett that he "would probably get killed by being shot by a fan".

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