Whos who?! [Part 1]

When writing songs some artists choose to make up fictional characters, some of which are based on real people, others not. Some listeners however go crazy at mere coinsidence, this was brought to my attention recently when I read that last year the birth certificate of a woman named "Elenor Rigby" was sold for thousands of dollars. Other characters within the Beatles were Mr.Kite ; which John Lennon found on an antique circus poster. The most mysterious however is "The Walrus". The thing about "The Walrus" is the contradictory nature of the narrorator (John Lennon). In "Glass Onion" John proclaims


"Well here's another clue for you all,
The walrus was Paul."

However only one year later on his Debut solo Album "Plastic Ono Band" John says :

"I was the walrus,
But now I'm John"

The most confusing thing about this is that John sings both parts making the "Who was the Walrus?" question highly debatable.


There are many more examples and maybe I'll revisit the subject or make this a reoccuring segment where I examine fictional characters from one band at a time, or at least the most notorious.


- Peace and Love -