John Lennon's primal therapy sessions with Arthur Janov in 1970 were the alleged catalyst in him baring a little soul (both kinds) for the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Basically, the English being in Northern Ireland and the conflict in Vietnam and the imprisonment of John Sinclair got Lennon's dander up because his father was an asshole.
"In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life," Lennon said in an interview. "It's excruciating. You are forced to realize that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment."
The sessions went something like this:
"Why not have something that sounds terrible that you can hold?" - Chris Jahnle
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