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Who is "the Eggman"???

yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
edited August 2008 in Other Music
It has always bothered me, that I don't know who the Eggman is, in the Beatles song.

Any theories :confused:
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It's Eric Burdon of the Animals. He had a peculiar sexual habit of delighting in breaking eggs over the naked bodies of his groupies, thus awarding him the epithet of "The Eggman."
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    It's Eric Burdon of the Animals. He had a peculiar sexual habit of delighting in breaking eggs over the naked bodies of his groupies, thus awarding him the epithet of "The Eggman."

    really? you are a wealth of seemingly useless information richard. me? i thought it was humpty dumpty. :p:D
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  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    It's Eric Burdon of the Animals. He had a peculiar sexual habit of delighting in breaking eggs over the naked bodies of his groupies, thus awarding him the epithet of "The Eggman."
    Does he say "Coo-coo-katchoo"??

    Or is he impresonating a Chicken to lay the eggs? :confused:
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    I always thought he was the guy who gave me delicious omletes at the diner on Sundays...who knew!
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    yellowled24 wrote:
    Does he say "Coo-coo-katchoo"??

    Or is he impresonating a Chicken to lay the eggs? :confused:


    Well, I could relate a couple of paragraphs from Burdon's autobiography, but this is an all-ages forum. Plus, it might put some of you off your breakfasts ... :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    catefrances wrote:
    really? you are a wealth of seemingly useless information richard. me? i thought it was humpty dumpty. :p:D


    Humpty Dumpty wasn't an egg, historically. It was a cannon which used by King Charles's Cavaliers to defend against a Roundhead siege of St Mary at the Wall Church in Colchester, during the English Civil War. The cannon sat on the tower wall, and when the tower wall was blown up, Humpty had a great fall, and all King Charles's horses and all King Charles's men couldn't put Humpty together again. Wikipedia offers loads of variant possibilities, but they're all bollocks.

    Whatever the case, it had nothing to do with Geordie rockers with a fondness for dairy products.
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    "Liner notes from the anthology The Sounds of Science state that the song is based on an event where members of the band were denied entry to a club by a bouncer, later returning, dressed in black, to pelt the offender with eggs. Some of the lyrics, such as "We, all, dressed in black" were reused in the Paul's Boutique song "Egg Man"."
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  • stevieraveonstevieraveon Posts: 413
    restlesssoul wrote:
    "Liner notes from the anthology The Sounds of Science state that the song is based on an event where members of the band were denied entry to a club by a bouncer, later returning, dressed in black, to pelt the offender with eggs. Some of the lyrics, such as "We, all, dressed in black" were reused in the Paul's Boutique song "Egg Man"."

    Um, the question was about the Beatles song I AM THE WALRUS, but I immediately thought of Beastie Boys too.
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,543
    I am.




    That was a terrible joke.
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  • harrymanbackharrymanback Posts: 435
    DJ on WRXP 101.9 in NYC just said it was Paul.
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  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    harrymanback wrote:
    DJ on WRXP 101.9 in NYC just said it was Paul.


    Pauls the Walrus
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    harrymanback wrote:
    DJ on WRXP 101.9 in NYC just said it was Paul.
    ...
    I thought Paul was the Walrus.
    As for the song... John on Acid is my guess.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    petrocs wrote:
    Pauls the Walrus


    John's the Walrus. The line "The walrus was Paul" in Glass Onion is a joke. Paul was the hippo. George was the rabbit. Ringo was the rooster.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    John's the Walrus. The line "The walrus was Paul" in Glass Onion is a joke. Paul was the hippo. George was the rabbit. Ringo was the rooster.


    hehehehe... acid... you've got to love it :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    harrymanback wrote:
    DJ on WRXP 101.9 in NYC just said it was Paul.

    He didn't happen also to say how Paul was killed in an automobile accident in November 1966 and replaced by an egomanic lookalike by the name of William Campbell, by any chance? You know these US DJs and their Beatles inside info. ;)
  • hoopinmanhoopinman Posts: 294
    according to wikipedia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus

    Who was the Eggman?

    Eric Burdon, lead singer of The Animals, is claimed by some to be the 'Eggman'. The reason for this is that Burdon was known as 'Eggs' to his friends, originating from his fondness for breaking eggs over naked girls. Burdon's biography mentions such an affair taking place in the presence of John Lennon, who shouted "Go on, go get it, Eggman..."[9]
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    hoopinman wrote:
    according to wikipedia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus

    Who was the Eggman?

    Eric Burdon, lead singer of The Animals, is claimed by some to be the 'Eggman'. The reason for this is that Burdon was known as 'Eggs' to his friends, originating from his fondness for breaking eggs over naked girls. Burdon's biography mentions such an affair taking place in the presence of John Lennon, who shouted "Go on, go get it, Eggman..."[9]


    Again, I could go into very filthy, graphic detail about what is meant to have transpired, but I'd get banned for about ten lifetimes. :D
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Again, I could go into very filthy, graphic detail about what is meant to have transpired, but I'd get banned for about ten lifetimes. :D


    you could scramble your post... then the mods won't fry you for it.




    *groans*
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    dunkman wrote:
    you could scramble your post... then the mods won't fry you for it.




    *groans*


    ha! I get that :)....you said scramble :D

    And...while we're about it, what's going on in that Carolina Drama song on the Raconteurs album? :confused:
    Is the preacher the daddy, or the drunk boyfriend, or is it the milkman....is the milkman there even....? it's a great song but it loses me :o
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    jamie uk wrote:
    Is the preacher the daddy, or the drunk boyfriend, or is it the milkman....is the milkman there even....? it's a great song but it loses me :o

    i dunno amigo.. must read the lyrics sometime.. mostly i just get drunk and listen to it... that and the sound of my wife struggling to breathe.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    dunkman wrote:
    i dunno amigo.. must read the lyrics sometime.. mostly i just get drunk and listen to it... that and the sound of my wife struggling to breathe.

    you should really be careful with that ball gag ;)
    and, maybe let her have a turn with it sometimes :D
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    yellowled24 wrote:
    Does he say "Coo-coo-katchoo"??

    Or is he impresonating a Chicken to lay the eggs? :confused:


    the liners I've seen is goo-goo-gajoob
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