"Sexy Sadie" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album").
The song was written by John Lennon in India and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
Lennon wrote the song during the Beatles' stay in India in response to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's alleged sexual advance on actress Mia Farrow.
The song has been considered an early example of a diss track.
Lennon once said of the song:
"That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him 'Sexy Sadie' instead of (sings) 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool...' I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I'd like them to be."[
He told Rolling Stone that when the Maharishi asked why he was leaving, he replied, "Well, if you're so cosmic, you'll know why."
an early outtake of "Sexy Sadie" features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band:
"Maharishi, you little twat/
Who the fuck do you think you are?/
Who the fuck do you think you are?
/Oh, you cunt."
