Was [Yer Blues] deliberately meant to be a parody of the English blues scene?
John Lennon: Well, a bit. I'm a bit self-conscious — we all were a bit self-conscious and the Beatles were super self-conscious people about parody of Americans which we do and have done. I know we developed our own style but we still in a way parodied American music... there was a self-consciousness about singing blues. We were all listening to Sleepy John Estes and all that in art school, like everybody else. But to sing it was something else.
Rolling Stone interview with Jann Wenner (8 Dec 1970)
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