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It has been speculated that John had been feeling that he was at a crossroads in his life.
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That's how I felt.” In his 1980 Playboy interview, John explains that the song was “written in India.up there trying to reach God and feeling suicidal.” In 'Yer Blues,' when I wrote, 'I'm so lonely I want to die,' I'm not kidding. Lennon continues: “The funny thing about the camp was that although it was very beautiful and I was meditating about eight hours a day, I was writing the most miserable songs on earth. "The experience was worth it if only for the songs that came out." "Regardless of what I was supposed to be doing, I did write some of my best songs while I was there." This quote from John Lennon in 1971 explains his experience with the other Beatles while in Rishikesh, India with the Maharishi in the spring of 1968, the purpose of this excursion being to study and practice meditation. Why not give it a try? The result was the semi-serious and semi-tounge-in-cheek “Yer Blues.” With this in mind, John Lennon thought to give the Blues a go as well. It's easy to notice that The Beatles had been open to taking a stab at just about any genre of music they set their attention to, and doing so quite convincingly as well as successfully. By 1968, a British Blues boom was developing, with Cream, Fleetwood Mac and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, among others, leading the way. British groups such as The Rolling Stones, The Animals and The Yardbirds infused the Blues into their songwriting as well as incorporating classic Blues compositions into their repertoire.
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One case in point was the re-emergence of the genre of music called the Blues. However, The Beatles were just as observant of musical trends as anyone else. The music of that decade is rife with examples, from fellow British acts to American artists - Motown hits included! If you were privileged to have had a recording contract in the mid- to late-60's, even if you felt you had established yourself with a substantial degree of success, you were still wise to observe which musical direction The Beatles were going in and then slant your next release in that direction as well. The band was continually redefining itself with every album and single that they released. History has shown that The Beatles were overwhelmingly considered trend-setters, not trend-followers.