Editing John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (section)

==Music and lyrics==
Lennon's experience in primal therapy strongly influenced both the lyrical content of the album, pushing him toward themes of child–parent relationships and psychological suffering,{{sfn|Du Noyer|2010|p=20}} and the simple yet intense style of the album's music.<ref name="kane">{{cite book |first=Larry |last=Kane |title=Lennon Revealed |year=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lennonrevealed0000kane_p2o7/page/224 224] |publisher=Running Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=0-7624-2364-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/lennonrevealed0000kane_p2o7/page/224 }}</ref> Throughout the album Lennon touches on many personal issues: his abandonment by his parents, in "Mother" (though he denied that that was what the song was about on a posthumously-released live album); the means by which young people are made into soldiers, in "Working Class Hero"; a reminder that, despite his rage and pain, Lennon still embraces "Love"; and "God", a renunciation of external saviours. In the piano-driven climax of "God", after listing a handful of things he does not believe in, including [[Jesus]], [[Hitler]], [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]], [[Elvis]], "Zimmerman" ([[Bob Dylan]]) and Beatles, Lennon proclaims that he believes only in himself and Ono.<ref name="cadogan">{{cite book |first=Patrick |last=Cadogan |title=The Revolutionary Artist: John Lennon's Radical Years |year=2008 |page=131 |publisher=Lulu |location=Morrisville, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4357-1863-0}}</ref>

"[[Look at Me (John Lennon song)|Look at Me]]" dates from the period of the [[The Beatles (album)|White Album]] (1968),{{sfn|Madinger|Easter|2000|p=39}} and is built on a fingerpicking guitar pattern very similar to the one Lennon used in "[[Dear Prudence]]", "[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]" and "[[Julia (The Beatles song)|Julia]]". [[Donovan]] claimed that he taught Lennon this technique while the two were in [[Rishikesh]] in 1968.<ref>Interview with Donovan (2004)</ref> "[[Remember (John Lennon song)|Remember]]" uses the same piano riff that Lennon played in the discarded coda to the Beatles' July 1969 recording of "[[Something (Beatles song)|Something]]".{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|p=269}}

"[[My Mummy's Dead]]", which closes ''Plastic Ono Band'', is partly set to the tune of the nursery rhyme "[[Three Blind Mice]]".{{sfn|Madinger|Easter|2000|p=35}} The recording used on the album was taken from Lennon's Los Angeles demos.{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|p=292}}