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Towards the end of the production for Rubber Soul, John Lennon had difficulties in coming up with a new song. He spent over five hours trying to come up with another song, and eventually decided to "lay down". During his idling, Lennon suddenly thought of himself as being a "Nowhere Man—sitting in his nowhere land". Lennon then shared the lyrics he had written with Paul McCartney, the band would go on to record the track on the 21st and 22nd of October of 1965. The track is one of the first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable example of Lennon's philosophically oriented songwriting. Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison sing the song in three-part harmony. Furthermore, the lead guitar solo was performed in unison by Harrison and Lennon - the pair played identical "sonic blue"-coloured Fender Stratocasters on the track. The song was played throughout the Beatles' 1966 US tour and their 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines.
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