I was in Form 1 at Box Hill High School when this song came out. To say the Beatles were big is quite an understatement. They were like the center of the universe. And when Yoko came along and then they released songs like Revolution #9 and kinda rocked the boat. Lunchtime discussions of what the Beatles were doing and where they were taking music were very heated. and it did feel like they were always leading the way which in retrospect is not entirely true and influences from then current music scenes are very prevalent in their later records. Whether it was pastiches of the UK Blues boom (Yer Blues) or cod reggae (Obladi-Oblada) and then there was the whole Yoko thing. Was she and did she really break up the Beatles?
But no matter the opinion of a bunch of 12-year-old boys on the cusp of teenage wildlife there was no denying that despite the strange and personal subject matter of this single it really rocked. And if Paul was so dead against Yoko how come he plays almost every instrument. We had these visions of Paul and John rocking out together while the rest of the lads were on holiday. Brilliant song. And when John says "Christ you know it ain't easy" it seemed a really hard edge for pop radio.
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