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The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill

(Lennon/McCartney)

Song background
"Bungalow Bill" was actually an American named Richard Cooke, III, who had met the Beatles and was on a tiger hunt with his mother three hours away from Rishikesh, where the Beatles were meditating. Cooke shot a tiger on the when it jumped at him and his mother. When she started talking about the kill to the Maharishi and some of his folowers, the Maharishi became visably disturbed. It was then that Cooke began to think that maybe it wasn't such a good idea. Maharishi asked, "You had the desire Rik and now you no longer have the desire?" to which John asked, "Don't you call that slightly life destructive?" Cooke replied, "Well, John, it was either the tiger or us. The tiger was jumping right where we were." Those words became, "If looks could kill it would've been us instead of him".

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• "The other Beatles were always real nice to me but John was always aloof. They epitomized the counter-culture and I was the classic good American boy and college athlete." - Richard Cooke, describing his encounter with the Beatles that imortalized him in a song

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