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Its lyrics reflect peace, love, politics, Lennon's experience with primal scream therapy, and following a period of high personal tensions, an attack on Jim Keltner's former writing partner Paul McCartney in the song "How Do You Sleep?".

-bearing god,

Anger was influenced by Aleister Crowley's descriptions of Lucifer as the light-bearing god, and was inspired by Crowley's poem "Hymn to Lucifer".

Paul McCartney

The song makes angry and scathing remarks aimed at English rock musician John Lennon's former Beatles bandmate and songwriting partner, Paul McCartney.

by Daniel Goleman

anger was written by Daniel Goleman, the leading Buddhist doctor who famously invented the phrase Emotional Intelligence.

Burnett

Burnett, while best known for such fiction gems Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield and To Sleep with Anger, has made a smattering of documentaries throughout Burnett's career, about such iconic figures as Nat Turner and Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland, and such themes as immigration and diversity (America Becoming).

From audacious British composer Max Richter

From audacious British composer Max Richter, Sleep is an eight-hour concert designed to be heard overnight, with the audience lying down.