Talk:Mushroom (song)

Meaning of song
There's another layer of possible meaning in the song, which I don't think has been pointed out in any English language source: the word "Pilzkopf" (literally "mushroom head") was used in Germany to refer to the Beatles in their early days, an exact parallel to the English term "moptop". So the song is quite likely comparing the impact of the Beatles to the effect of a nuclear bomb - this explains "I was born" as meaning "the Beatles awakened me to new possibilities in life and art". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pilzkopf https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilzkopf -  Metalello  talk 22:08, 4 May 2024 (UTC)