News‘Across the Universe’ – The Beatles song wrote about space
Every artist tends to have a few songs that fall out of the sky. While it’s easy to sit down with a pen and paper trying to figure out the perfect melody, it’s usually the best tracks that wake people up in the middle of the night and demand to be written. Paul McCartney had ‘Yesterday’, and towards the end of The Beatles’ career, John Lennon got a spacey vision on ‘Across the Universe’.
Being one of the last handful of masterstrokes Lennon would create with The Beatles, the song is about the poetry that comes with space both on Earth and around the known galaxy. Outside of talking about the spiritual side of life, Lennon paints a picture of the kind of art that can venture out into the universe, constantly seeing visions of undying love that shine around him in response.
For all of the disdain Lennon had towards the band’s material, he always thought that this song was one of the true peaks of his poetic career, despite not being happy with the final recording. Regardless of his feelings on the final product, this was more about Lennon’s message beyond the music. After years of selling pop music for the meat market, ‘Across the Universe’ was a reminder that The Beatles’ music was for the world rather than a passing trend.
