John Lennon had always been a supreme individualist: a man apart, training to become high priest of the cult of the self.Much of his enduring appeal is based on his status as the outsider, the champion of the common man, thumbing his nose at the great and the good. After recording Working Class Hero in 1970, he described it as a 'revolutionary song, for the people like me who are working class and who are supposed to be processed into the middle classes, through the machinery".