Lennon, John (2014) [1964]. In His Own Write (50th Anniversaryed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-78211-540-3. Both German translations have received praise, [243] [244] but also criticism. Literary scholar and translator Friedhelm Rathjen [ de] describes them as "one-dimensional" and criticises that the title's wordplay on " in his own right" is not reflected in the translation. [240] Before he signed with Jonathan Cape, Lennon wrote prose and poetry to keep for himself and share with his friends, leaving his pieces filled with private meanings and in-jokes. [171] Quoted in a February 1964 piece in Mersey Beat, Harrison said with regard to the book that "[t]he 'with-it' people will get the gags and there are some great ones". [121] Lewisohn states that Lennon based the story "Henry and Harry" on an experience of Harrison, whose father gifted him electrician's tools for Christmas 1959, implying he expected his son to become an electrician despite Harrison's disagreement. [172] In the story, Lennon writes that such jobs were "brummer striving", explaining in a 1968 television interview that the term referred to "all those jobs that people have that they don't want. And there's probably about 90 percent brummer strivers watching in at the moment." [173] The 1962 story "Randolf's Party" was never discussed by Lennon, but Lewisohn suggests he most likely wrote it about former Beatles drummer Pete Best. Lewisohn mentions similarities between Best and the lead character, including an absent father figure and Best's first name being Randolf. [174] Best biographer Mallory Curley describes the lines "We never liked you all the years we've known you. You were never raelly [ sic] one of us you know, soft head" as, "the crux of Pete's Beatles career, in one paragraph." [175]

Live Jam, 1972. Inner sleeve artwork, drawing on top of Frank Zappa’s album cover for The Mothers Fillmore East June 1971. Goodden, Joe (2017). Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs. London: Pepper & Pearl. ISBN 978-1-9998033-0-8.

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Billboards with the inscription “WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT Happy Christmas from John & Yoko” were placed in 11 cities worldwide: New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong, along with leaflets, posters, newspaper advertisements and radio announcements. On the second film of the Beatles Help! John goes to a bookcase and gets his book A Spaniard In The Works. It also appears on many photos of the Beatles in John's hands. The book blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. Throw (or put) a spanner in the works' refers to the calamitous effects of throwing a spanner into the gears and pistons of an engine. Harris, John (2004a). "Cruel Britannia". In Trynka, Paul (ed.). The Beatles: Ten Years that Shook the World. London: Dorling Kindersley. pp.326–331. ISBN 0-7566-0670-5.

Soccer Game, 1952. Watercolour of Newcastle’s George Robledo heading the winning ball into the net against Arsenal at the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, May 3, 1952. Anon.[b] (1 May 1964). "Books: All My Own Work". Time. p.E7. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011.In his 1983 book, Literary Lennon: A Comedy of Letters, writer James Sauceda provides a postmodern dissection of both In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. [30] Everett describes the book as "a thorough but sometimes wrongheaded postmodern Finnegans Wake-inspired parsing". [31] Riley calls Sauceda's insights "keen", but suggests more can be understood by analyzing the works with reference to Lennon's biography. [32] For example, Riley suggests that Lennon wrote the poem "Our Dad" after two interactions with his father, Alfred Lennon, writing that both Alfred and the father character in the poem traveled often. The poem is mostly hostile in its tone before the final lines read: "But he'll remain in all ours hearts/—a buddy and a pal." [33] Riley suggests that the poem's "bitingly satiric reversal" serves to satirise the tendency of British odes to always move towards a happy ending. [34]