How Do You Sleep?
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"How Do You Sleep?" is a song from John Lennon's 1971 album Imagine, in which he explicitly attacks former Beatles songwriting partner Paul McCartney. Musically stinging, featuring a particularly intricate slide guitar from George Harrison, it is a very hard song. Despite the overtness of the attack, Lennon later claimed that the song was more about himself than McCartney. But there is no doubt that Lennon felt attacked by McCartney, who admitted that lines in the song "Too Many People" on the album Ram were intended as digs at John (though John and Yoko thought the whole album was intended as such). The song "How Do You Sleep?" was their reply. Furthermore, McCartney's answer to the song was "Dear Friend" on the album Wild Life, which set an end to their public battle.