18 Pieces of Bad Advice from the Beatles

At one point in time, The Beatles were young, overly witty, brit-rockers who could turn a phrase, hit the notes, and crafted intelligent, catchy, pop-tunes that were very rock for their era. They wanted Beethoven to rollover. They wanted to be Paperback Writers, but just with a bit of Help!. You couldn’t buy them love, they always gave you a ticket to ride, and they could fall in love just by seeing a girl standing in a spot.

Then drugs became involved, the pop-iness of their songs became edgy, but more musically brilliant. Also, they became stupid hippies who just made phenomenal music. Their lyrics were fantastic, but full of bad advice to anybody who took them to be too literal. Here are some examples.

All You Need Is Love – Look, I am a fan of being in love and all of the benefits that ensue. However, “Love” is not all that you need. You need faith, you need some finances to pay bills and buy food. This is the kind of beat-nic hippy thinking that ruined a lot of people and a lot of musicians. As stated earlier, I am anti-hippy, and I will stand by that statement. This song is just too depressing. They repeatedly tell me that I am unoriginal and I should just cling to love. That is bad advice, this is how people become bums.

Let It Be – This kind of goes in line with the hippy stuff. You can’t just “Let It Be”!! This is why things don’t work, why the government can get away with whatever it wants. Instead of being active and involved, hippies “protest” the man by not getting jobs. Letting something stand as is will not help in the resolution of any problems and hinders progress. This is bad advice because it’s just plain lazy.

I Am the Walrus – Coo Coo CaChoo?!?!? What the hell man. The phrase “I am the Walrus” has nothing to do with anything in the song. This just promotes stupidity. This songs just goes a bit to far into the metaphors, and most people aren’t smart enough to follow.

Strawberry Fields Forever – Beautiful song, I’ll start with that. It is an amazing song, but it goes along the same lines as the aforementioned Walrus song. The lyrics are just a little too “out there”. I would like to see some research on how many people will admit that they went to a strawberry field when they heard this song. “Hey, The Beatles said they were going to a strawberry field forever, let’s go!!!”. This advice gives bad assistance on helping you find a location to live.


Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The title alone is bad advice. It makes you wonder if these guys were bipolar. First, all they need is love to be happy. Now, we’re talking about peeling caps and popping bitches with pistols. I’m just saying, it is surprising that Manson picked Helter Skelter when this song would’ve made way more sense.

Why Don’t We Do It In the Road – This is pretty self explanatory, right?!?! Look, the streets of even the smallest town in America are not a safe place to be doing the naughty. Period. I’m surprised people didn’t die from this. It makes me wonder if there was a period where the cops main duty in Great Britain was to keep people from doing it in the road. Do you think they had to hire extra constables for that?

Here Comes the Sun – How can you sing about the sun coming at us at full attack speed and tell me that it is alright. This is bad advice because it doesn’t instill the right amount of panic and fear into people during a natural disaster. This is an election year (it’s always an election year), fear should always play a greater role.