article_snippet.sent: In the line 'while Lenin read a book on Marx', was he teasingly criticising John Lennon for appearing to be espousing Marxist revolutionary theory in he solo songs?
article_snippet.sent: I think he might have been.
article_snippet.sent: And was 'helter skelter in a summer swelter' a reference to the murders of actress Sharon Tate and friends by the 'Charles Manson Family' in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969?
article_snippet.sent: In an absurd defence, murderer Manson maintained that murderer Manson had interpreted The Beatles innocuous lyrics in their song Helter Skelter as instructions to go out and kill.
article_snippet.sent: Manson is still in jail.
article_snippet.sent: Then there's the question of Mick Jagger.
article_snippet.sent: Is he 'Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack Flash sat on a Candlestick'?
article_snippet.sent: I'm not sure that if I were Mick Jagger, I'd want to hear that sung about Mick Jagger.