Comments on: Jet

By: Versury

Versury — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:34:12 +0000

And about the Swedish cover? Nothing? Im looking for informations about it

By: Littlelady

Littlelady — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:41:07 +0000

Mater was John’s aunt……I was thinking that this is definitely a love song to John/Jet about his dalliances with Bowie.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 05:24:35 +0000

I’d say the song definitely alludes to The Beatles – Sergeant Major, lonely place, and Major sound like they’re from Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and ‘climb on the back and let’s go for a ride in the sky’ sounds like, “let’s just rise above all this stuff that’s currently going on in the world and create some tunes for the ages”. I think, though, that the marriage announcement, remembering funny faces, and ‘you’re hardly old enough yet’ are more about reminiscing about the days of John’s first marriage and the ‘Major’ is Yoko oohwooOooOoowoOoo (Ono) and John becoming her subservient soldier fighting for this cause and that on her command. Wind of a thousand LACES? I’m sure it was originally FACES, but that would have been too obviously about crowds of strangers that are fans screaming and creating a wind back at The Lonely Hearts Club Band. The chorus would then mean, “don’t hate me for saying all this, I just want you back”.

By: Andrew Rosenthal

Andrew Rosenthal — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:01:34 +0000

So, was Jet a dog or a pony? I have heard two stories both claim they came from the horses mouth…. Paul.

By: bk

bk — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 03:06:32 +0000

This song is about Paul loosing John to Yoko, a song about a life long friendship coming to an end via a person Paul regarded as controlling.

First stanza describes the moment John (Jet) announced he was going to marry Yoko, and how lonely that made Paul feel for John.

Second stanza he’s digging into John for not standing up for himself and how he regards Yoko as a militaristic b*tch.

Chorus is Paul’s emotional expression of his loss, to his late mother and an indication of the time that would pass without a repair of the friendship.

Last Stanza Paul is recounting their past travels through life together and asking John to revisit this time again.

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:22:39 +0000

Jet is a direct reference to David Bowie, his cross-dressing stage personality and includes lyrical lines from Space Oddity and Suffraget City.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:50:59 +0000

Helen Wheels was released as a standalone single before Band On The Run came out, but was included on the US edition (and probably some others). It wasn’t on the UK version at all, though – only as a bonus track on reissued. Jet was the first single to be taken from the album.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:42:19 +0000

Helen Wheels was the first single to be released on the Band on the run album. Then Al Coury persuaded Paul that he had released the wrong single. DJ’s were already playing a short version of Jet in some areas. This is told by Paul McCartney on the second CD in the 2-CD release of Band on Thr Run.
Gerald