John Lennon Never Released 1 Song as a Single Because It 'Embarrassed' Him

John Lennon said his record company wanted one of his songs to be a single. He found the song “embarrassing.” He said something to Yoko Ono in the song that he felt he couldn’t say to her in person.

One of John Lennon‘s songs was really popular with his fans. Despite this, he didn’t want to release the song as a single. The former Beatle said this may have hurt the success of the album Imagine.The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono is an interview from 1980. During the interview, John was asked about his song “Oh Yoko!” “It’s a very popular track, but I was sort of shy and embarrassed and it didn’t sort of represent my image of myself as the tough, hard-biting rock’ n’ roller with the acid tongue,” he said.

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