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Transgender or not?

Started by Jamie D, February 12, 2012, 03:37:53 AM

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Jamie D

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can


From "Get Back"
Lyrics by Paul McCartney
Lennon & McCartney


Well, is Loretta transgendered or not?
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tekla

Anything is possible but the long held theory is that Loretta Martin is Yoko, and it's John who said that one of the reasons he loved Yoko is that she looked like a man - in that she wasn't excessively 'feminine' in that stereotypical show-biz manner.  Paul used to sing "Get back" to Yoko whenever she showed up in the recording studio.  But Paul, who wrote the song always said that the lyrics were pretty much nonsense that rhymed that they came up with while they were jamming on the song (which they didn't write, it's pretty much an old Big Bill Broonzy tune.)  And it had other lyric lines, but they were deemed offensive - or might be construed that way - so it's possible that it was just a last minute deal of finding words that rhymed more than they made sense.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Jamie D

I have heard that theory.  If McCartney patterned his song characters after real people, it also follows that "Jojo" may have been Joseph See, Linda Eastman McCartney's first husband, and father of Heather See McCartney.
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