Happiness Is a Warm Gun

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musical work song

"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is a 1968 Beatles song from the White Album, noted for its shifting time signatures, darkly surreal lyrics, and John Lennon's fragmented, multi-part composition.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Happiness Is a Warm Gun canonical	2
Happiness Is a Warm Gun in Your Hand	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	musical work ⓘ song ⓘ
album	The Beatles ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Happiness Is a Warm Gun ⓘ surface form: Happiness Is a Warm Gun in Your Hand
artist	The Beatles ⓘ
associatedWith	John Lennon’s darker lyrical style ⓘ
backingVocal	George Harrison ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ
bassGuitar	Paul McCartney ONNED1 ⓘ
composer	John Lennon ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
creditedWriter	Lennon–McCartney ⓘ
drums	Ringo Starr NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	late 1960s ⓘ
feature	abrupt tempo changes ⓘ complex vocal harmonies ⓘ dark surreal lyrics ⓘ shifting time signatures ⓘ
genre	art rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ
guitar	George Harrison ⓘ John Lennon ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	later progressive rock songwriting ⓘ
hasPart	multi-part song structure ⓘ
hasSection	"I need a fix ’cause I’m going down" section ⓘ "Mother Superior jumped the gun" section ⓘ "She’s not a girl who misses much" section ⓘ doo-wop style coda ⓘ
hasTheme	addiction imagery ⓘ sexual innuendo ⓘ violence imagery ⓘ
includedIn	The Beatles’ 1968 double album ⓘ
inspiredBy	American gun magazine slogan ⓘ
label	Apple Records ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
leadVocal	John Lennon ⓘ
lyricist	John Lennon ⓘ
notableFor	controversial gun-themed title ⓘ fragmented multi-part composition ⓘ
partOf	The Beatles (White Album) ⓘ
performer	The Beatles ⓘ
producer	George Martin ⓘ
recordedBy	The Beatles ⓘ at EMI Studios, London ⓘ
releaseYear	1968 ⓘ
side	The Beatles (White Album) ⓘ surface form: Side A of The Beatles (White Album)
timeSignature	multiple changing time signatures ⓘ
trackOnAlbum	The Beatles (White Album) ONNED1 ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pod → hasPart → Happiness Is a Warm Gun ⓘ

The Beatles (White Album) → hasPart → Happiness Is a Warm Gun ⓘ

Happiness Is a Warm Gun → alsoKnownAs → Happiness Is a Warm Gun ⓘ

this entity surface form: Happiness Is a Warm Gun in Your Hand