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==== "Doctor Robert" ==== "[[Doctor Robert]]" was written by Lennon,{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=231}} although McCartney has since stated he co-authored it.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=290}} A guitar-based rock song in the style of "And Your Bird Can Sing",{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|pp=121, 123}} its lyrics celebrate a New York physician known for dispensing [[amphetamine]] injections to his patients.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=231}}{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=45}}{{refn|group=nb|Although once thought to be Dr Charles Roberts, whose celebrity clients included [[Edie Sedgwick]], the eponymous doctor was Robert Freymann, who was struck off the [[New York County Medical Society|New York Medical Society]]'s register in 1975.{{sfn|Womack|2014|pp=231, 232}}}} On the recording, the hard-driving performance is interrupted by two bridge sections where, over [[harmonium]] and chiming guitar chords,{{sfn|Everett|1999|pp=45β46}} the group vocals suggest a choir praising the doctor for his services.{{sfn|Riley|2002|pp=195β96}}{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|p=122}}
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