Welcome again to The Beatles Rarity Of The Week. This week’s BROW is a John Lennon track entitled Serve Yourself. I think it was one of his “private” songs never intended to be heard by the public. It was written as a comic response to the well-known Bob Dylan hit single Gotta Serve Somebody from his 1979 album Slow Train Coming. Recorded on piano in the fall of 1980 in his home at the Dakota building, it has a different feel than the acoustic guitar account of the song given on the John Lennon Anthology box set. It’s a very simple sentiment really: Bob says “you’re gonna have to serve somebody” and John says “you’ve got to serve yourself”. The rest of the words (on both songs) are just filler.
John Lennon - Serve Yourself
John Lennon, circa 1980
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