During COVID Raymond's concerts had to be online, using Zoom. This is from one of those online concerts.

This song by the English rock band The Beatles was recorded for their 1969 album "Abbey Road". It was written by Paul McCartney, although credited to Lennon-McCartney. Despite its upbeat catchy tune, it tells a dark, eccentric story about a student named Maxwell Edison who commits murders with a hammer. John, George and Ringo did not like the song and apparently resented having to work at length on it.

According to McCartney’s wife, Linda, he had become interested in avant-garde theatre, in particular the plays of Alfred Jarry, and this influence is reflected in Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. It also explains how McCartney came across Jarry’s word “pataphysical,” the type of Science that Joan studies in the first verse.
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In 1994, McCartney said that the song epitomises the downfalls of life, being “my analogy for when something goes wrong out of the blue, as it so often does, as I was beginning to find out at that time in my life. I wanted something symbolic of that, so to me it was some fictitious character called Maxwell with a silver hammer. I don’t know why it was silver, it just sounded better than Maxwell’s hammer.”