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Doctor Robert
(Lennon/McCartney)
Song background
Written about a New York doctor named Doctor Robert Freymann, a 60 year old, German physician who was famous
for prescribing generous amounts of amphetamines to famous people. Freymann once boasted that he could name
100 famous names in 10 minutes of people who used his services. Some books credit Dr. Robert as being Dr. Charles
Roberts, but that name was only used as an alias for one of Andy Wahol's actresses to protect another doctor
who practiced the same type of medicene. The real Dr. Robert died in 1987 after losing his license in 1968
and removed from the NY State Medical Society in 1975.
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- August 5, 1966 (UK) (on Revolver)
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