For Lennon, "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" was an allusion to an extramarital affair; for Harrison, it meant the breakout song for his defining instrumentals on sitar. But the ethereal head-scratcher of a song title actually refers to the cheap furniture of the average 1960s bachelorette apartment. Lennon and McCartney's lyrics follow a man who goes to a girl's apartment for the evening, only to be told to sleep in the bathtub and jilted the next morning; resentful of waking up alone, he sets fire to her apartment and its kitschy contents. McCartney remembers: "...a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, 'Cheap Pine,' baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood." Had the song been written today, it might have been called "Ikea Furniture."
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The Beatles: facts and other stuff
AcakBecause why the hell not? The Beatles, in my opinion, are amazingly awesome and radical. Although the band broke apart a long time ago, I'm intending to bring Beatlemania back in.
