The story behind the Beatles’ 1968 track “Rocky Raccoon” might seem as simple as Paul McCartney’s fictitious take on a spaghetti Western saloon shootout. But there’s more truth behind this tongue-in-cheek song than one might think. Most of the characters presented in the ‘White Album’ song are McCartney’s imaginative musings: the titular Rocky, Gideon, dream-breaking […]
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