“glass onion” (themes)

(off 1968 “eponymous beatles album”)

(john lennon song)

(one of his “self-referential” beatles songs)

mentions:

“STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER”

“I AM THE WALRUS”

“FOOL ON THE HILL”

“LADY MADONNA”

“FIXING A HOLE”

(2 john songs / 3 paul songs)

(i associate “the white album” with brad lubeck’s basement)

(“glass onions” were large hand-blown glass bottles used aboard sailing ships to hold ‘wine’ or ‘brandy’)

(for increased stability on ‘rough seas’, the bottles were fashioned with a wide-bottom shape to prevent toppling, thus making the bottles look somewhat ‘onion-shaped’)

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