"Nowhere Man" is a song by The Beatles from their Rubber Soul album in the UK and Yesterday ... and Today album in the U.S. The song was written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and was recorded on October 21-22, 1965. "Nowhere Man" is among the very first Beatles' songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love and marks a notable instance of Lennon's philosophically-oriented songwriting. It was released as a single February 15, 1966, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1966. Lennon, McCartney and George Harrison sing the song in three-part harmony. The song appears in the film Yellow Submarine, where the Beatles sing it after meeting the character Jeremy Hilary Boob in the nowhere land. Lennon claimed that he wrote the song about himself. He wrote it after racking his brain in desperation for five hours, trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul. Lennon told Playboy: "I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then 'Nowhere Man' came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down". McCartney said of the song: "That was John after a night out, with dawn coming up. I think at that point, he was a bit...wondering where he was going, and to be truthful so was I. I was starting to worry about him".
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