“Cold Turkey” was as trivial as the Macca album, except more self-important; John addresses the topic of heroin, which probably struck him as edgy, but the habit he was trying to kick was the Beatles. If you compare “Cold Turkey” to “Yer Blues” or “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” it just sounds corny—tailoring his hard-rock sound for the Beatles inspired John in a way this song didn’t. The irony is that Paul’s parody of this song in “Let Me Roll It” was not only superior but more John-sounding (as was John’s parody of Paul’s parody, “I’m Losing You”).
