Paul McCartney Parody */ Dear Boy

According to Peter Brown, John Lennon believed that a number of songs on Ram contained jibes aimed at him, particularly “Too Many People“ and “Dear Boy“.[9] Brown also described the picture of two beetles copulating on the back cover as symbolic of how Paul McCartney felt the other Beatles were treating him.[9] George Harrison and Ringo Starr were said to consider the track “3 Legs“ as an attack on them and Lennon[10] (“Three Legs“ being McCartney’s nickname for his former band-mates). McCartney later claimed that only two lines in “Too Many People“ were directed at Lennon. “In one song, I wrote, ’Too many people preaching practices,’ I think is the line. I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. There wasn’t anything else on [Ram] that was about them. Oh, there was ’You took your lucky break and broke it in two.’“[11] As well as conducting a war of words via Britain’s musical press,[10] Lennon’s re