Glass Onion

Glass Onion is a John Lennon song that appears on The White Album. The lyrics are mysterious, making references to earlier songs (Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am the Walrus, Fixing a Hole and others). John Lennon later said he had no deep meaning for the lyrics, but rather was having fun with a bit of nonsense. The line, "The Walrus was Paul" was a gesture towards Paul, as they were sorting out issues in their friendship at the time. The "Paul is Dead" theorists take this as a clue in the urban legend mystery of the alleged death of McCartney in 1966 during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the subsequent cover-up by the band and their managers. The arrangement includes the band's conventional instruments, plus strings, a banjo and a recorder played by Paul.