John Lennon with Cavern regular Linda 'Lindy' Ness
Находка Марка Льюисона:
Lindy Ness was just home from Norway and made a point of seeing
John at the August 24 lunchtime session. He’d asked her to bring him
back a gift and she brought a wooden troll with trousers around his
ankles, sitting on a potty. She found John, with George, by the
bandroom, and had a conversation audible only to its participants: “I’d
already heard rumors that John had got married, and as he unwrapped
my present George said something like ‘Are you going to put it with all
the toasters?’ John said, ‘Shut up!’ When they saw what it was, George
said, ‘Oh I thought it was another wedding present,’ and John said,
‘SHUT UP!,’ and then he looked at it and said, ‘What’s this, Norwegian
wood?’ ”
Author interview, October 29, 2004. Lindy Ness makes no
extravagant claims for John’s “Norwegian wood” comment, but swears
it’s true. She doesn’t know if it had any bearing on John writing a song
of that name three years later, but as soon as her friend Marie Guirron
(George’s girlfriend in summer 1962) heard it, in December 1965, she
was certain John had Lindy in mind. No interviewer ever asked John to
explain his song’s title.
Единственное вразумительное объяснение припева песни. Жаль, статуэтка из норвежского дерева не сохранилась.