"How Do You Sleep?" is a song from John Lennon's 1971 album Imagine, in which he implicitly disparages former Beatles songwriting partner Paul McCartney. It features a slide guitar part played by George Harrison. Despite the overtness of the attack, Lennon later claimed that the song was more about himself than McCartney, and certainly one or two lines, notably "jump when your momma tells you anything," sound as though they are directed more at Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono than McCartney's with Linda, though it could be seen as a reference to Paul's claims of hearing from his dead mother Mary in the song "Let it Be". The song also begins with the puzzling statement "So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise," a sentiment which applies more to Lennon than McCartney, the latter having been the principal driving force behind creating the album.
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