"Yer Blues - The Beatles" Premium Unisex T-Shirt (Handwritten lyrics by John Lennon)
Regular price $27.99The White Album's Darkest Moment. In John Lennon's Own Hand.
1968. The Beatles were fracturing. The Maharishi experiment was over. The sessions for the White Album were tense, sprawling, and sometimes brilliant. And then there was "Yer Blues" — four minutes of raw, anguished blues that sounded like nothing else the Beatles had ever recorded.
Lennon wrote it as both a tribute to British blues and a parody of it — but the pain in his voice was completely real. "Yes I'm lonely, wanna die." It wasn't a pose. It was Lennon at his most unguarded, stripping away the pop craft and letting something darker through.
The song connected directly to The Dirty Mac performance at the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus just months later — where Lennon, Clapton, Richards, and Mitchell tore through it live for the only time. One song. Two legendary performances. This tee features Lennon's handwritten lyrics in his own distinctive script — a direct line to the creative process behind one of rock's most intense moments.
Why Made to Order?
We don't warehouse inventory. Every shirt is made specifically for you after you order it — the same approach we brought to designing for major retail brands for 30 years. It takes about a week, and the result is a shirt that hasn't been sitting in a box. You'll receive tracking as soon as it ships.
Product Details
- 100% combed cotton
- Pre-shrunk fabric
- Unisex retail fit
- Cover stitched sleeves
- Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
- Side seams
- Tear-away label
- Available in Navy and White