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The Beatles
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The Beatles

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The Beatles
A single-sided 7" acetate, the white Emidisc label inscribed in red ballpoint pen in an unknown hand Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand, The Beatles
Literature
WENNER, Jann S. Lennon Remembers, London: Verso, 2000, pp.114-5
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Lot Essay

Happiness Is A Warm Gun was released on the A-side of the "White Album" in 1968. This acetate is inscribed with the full original title which John Lennon had borrowed from the cover of a gun magazine belonging to George Martin. He remarked in the famous Rolling Stone interview with Jann Wenner in 1970: ..I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you['ve] just shot something.. In the same interview, Lennon also said of this song ...I like that, one of me best...

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