Semolina Pilchard (is that a person?)
Yeah, that was John's sly dig at Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher who was a bent cop. It was he who went on a crusade to bust pop stars for drugs in the late 60s. He was in on the Stones busts involving Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones, he was in on the busts of Harrison and Lennon and quite a few more. He ended up going to jail for planting false evidence some years later. Irony personified.
Although Lennon and Harrison never made any secret of their drug use, both were adamant until they died that their actual busts were plants. Lennon said he'd been tipped off weeks in advance by the journalist, Don Short {a guy Lennon didn't like and always tried to get rid of but Short was one of that new breed of journalists that ingratiated themselves with the newly emerging rock aristocracy and I suspect Short's tip off was part of this sycophancy} and cleared the flat of all drugs, saying Hendrix had lived there before he moved in with Yoko, he wasn't stupid !
Harrison made the famous statement after his bust "I'm a tidy man. I keep my socks in the socks draw and my stash in the stash box. Anything else, they [the cops]must have brought."
"I am the walrus" has always seemed a mysterious song but for anyone genuinely interested, you really need to read Ian McDonald's critique of it in his sensational book, "Revolution in the head". I could explain it.....but dinner calls !
You can go to him !
Christ, Edward Heath {then leader of the opposition, soon to be Prime minister}, A man who sailed to sea, Dennis O'Bell, the 'bird' that can sing and is green, Piggies/pigs from a gun, Meet the wife {a lame TV show}, the Daily Mail, the kitten that must be left alone, the little dog that stays until the big dog comes, Uncle John, Long tall Sally, Dizzy miss Lizzy, the rocking horse people, Desmond & Molly Jones, the kids running in the yard, school, teachers that weren't cool, Father, Mother and the runaway daughter, the Hendersons, Pablo Fanques, Bishopsgate, the wall of illusion, Vera, Chuck and Dave, the Isle of Wight, Grandchildren on the knee, Rita's sister {or two}, the wife and the 'boy', the bus, Blackburn, Lancashire, the Royal Albert Hall, Strawberry fields, Penny Lane, Blue Jay way, the man with the foolish grin, the man of a thousand voices, the friends that lost their way, An English garden, Choking smokers, Bungalow Bill, his Mum, the joker, the Eiffel tower, Krishna, the banker with his motor car, the little children that laugh behind his back, the Queen, the shelter in the middle of the roundabout, the nurse selling poppies from a tray, the zoo, a nun, heaven, earth, a silver sun, sheepdog, bullfrog, the ship, the band that's not quite right, Chairman Mao, the USSR, Miami Beach, B.O.A.C, the all American bullet headed Saxon Mother's son, the Ukraine, Moscow, Georgia, Prudence, Paul, the cast iron shore, Tigers, elephants, Captain Marvel, the lizard on the window pane, Mother Superior, [wild] Honey pie, North of England way, the USA, Hollywood, the sea, the King of Marigold, the duchess of Kircaldy, the Bird & Bee {a pub}, Sexy Sadie, Gideon, the doctor stinking of gin, Mother Nature, the road, Julia, Ocean child [Yoko], Mary Jane, Sweet Loretta Fart, Maggie Mae, John & Yoko, Merseyside, the universe, home, ponies, the Rolling Stones [Mick Jagger in particular], Guru Dev, the FBI, the CIA, the BBC, BB King, Doris Day, Matt Busby, the brokenhearted people, Lime Street, Liverpool, the Judge, the train, Elmore James, Ringo, George, Tucson, Arizona, California, Winter, Summer, Joan, Maxwell Edison, Pataphysical science, PC 31 {a cop}, Rose and Valerie, the coral that lies beneath the waves, Old Flat top, Ju~Ju eyeballs, Coca cola, [Yoko] Ono, Roller coaster, Muddy Waters, College, the Sun King, Mr Mustard & his sister Pam that works in a shop, Polythene Pam, the News of the World, the bathroom window, the banks of the lagoon, a dancer, the police dept.......
from memory.
