John Lennon and
Yoko Ono underwent
Arthur Janov's Primal Scream Therapy in the early
70s. It wasn't easy, after all, being
Beatle John. His semi-
debut album
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band was a
primal combination of
raw self-examination and some
screams hear (
sic) and there. (Yoko already had screams in her vast vocal repertoire). I don't know if the
therapy worked or not, since the Ono-Lennons went through a lot of stuff in the subsequent years - they certainly didn't
look theraputed.
When Double Fantasy came out, years later, my main impression was of how Lennon had wimped out. But then I listened to "Mother" and "Well Well Well" and "I Found Out" from that first LP, and figured he had earned his Mr. Mom domestic bliss songs. Nobody told me there'd be days like these. Strange days, indeed.