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Ben Rogerson

“I mean, this is the greatest recording ever made. I could break down why it's so good, blah blah blah, but more than anything... what were they thinking?”: Jack Antonoff breaks down the crazy genius of his favourite Beatles song

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 28: Jack Antonoff appears on SiriusXM's 'The Howard Stern Show' at SiriusXM Studios on April 28, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM).

Jack Antonoff has been involved in some pretty big records over the past decade, but he says that there’ll never be another song quite like one particular Beatles classic.

The tune in question is none other than Happiness Is A Warm Gun, taken from 1968’s The White Album. With its complex structure and frequent timing shifts, it might lack the immediacy of the Fab Four’s pure pop works, and it isn’t their most famous ‘experimental’ song, either, but for Antonoff, it represents a gold standard, and the song that he’s previously said was his first “production memory”.

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