Talk:Gimme Some Truth

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Tricky Dicky[edit]

The implication that the term "Tricky Dicky" for Nixon came from this song is misleading. The popular form of that nickname was "Tricky Dick", and this precedes Lennon's song by about 21 years - back to the 1950 US Senate campaign in California (see http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mitchell-tricky.html?_r=1). Lennon's use of the term no doubt was influenced by this. It is possible this song contributed to its increased use in the early 1970s, but the Watergate scandal would no doubt have brought the use of this term back even without this song. Gogh (talk) 01:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's little doubt Lennon wasn't just influenced by the nickname, but directly referencing Nixon. In 1971 everyone knew that Tricky Dicky meant Nixon. The nickname was used almost weekly on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Jon Weiner used "Gimme Some Truth" as the title for his book on the Nixon/FBI campaign against Lennon. Popsup (talk) 22:05, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BLUES-ROCK. YEAH.[edit]

i added blues-rock to the genres because, it IS pretty bluesy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MasterOfBucket (talk • contribs) 04:21, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pearl Jam 2003[edit]

I made some changes to the reference to Pearl Jam's 2003 performances of the song. Pearl Jam started using the song in soundchecks in April 2003 on the US tour, shortly after the invasion of Iraq. It was a very political tour that featured Vedder using masks of Bush and occasionally Bill Gates, a lot of stage patter about free speech, and numerous references to "the truth," as contrasted to the "lies, lies, lies, lies" condemned by the band in "Bushleaguer." Vedder inserted some modified words that made "Gimme Some Truth" a direct comment on the war and Bush.

The previous editor's paraphrase of Vedder's comment about NYC/9/11 after the song was unreferenced, and so I substituted a more detailed and I believe more accurate quote taken directly from a fan site that tracks every concert. Without hearing Vedder's between-song patter, hard to say whether it related to "Gimme Some Truth". Note that it doesn't appear Vedder used the phrase "9/11" directly but by allusion.Popsup (talk) 22:16, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

McCartney co-writing is documented on YouTube[edit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-6mwXImDE — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevintimba (talk • contribs) 13:28, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wow ! very interesting. A pair of comments in the YouTube video state that in the Hunter Davies book "The John Lennon letters" says that Paul was getting royalties for co-authorship of this song. If somebody can check it, maybe we can use the book as a RS to include the fact to the article (I don't have the book yet) Alexcalamaro (talk) 08:22, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]