“I could die now and I’d go to heaven”: When a stolen Beatles song saw Devo cross paths with John LennonIt took a sly pilfer of one of The Beatles’ biggest hits to gift Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh with a surreal path crossing of his all-time hero. Long-time spud fans will know that the John Lennon and Paul McCartney songbook pops up from time to time in Devo’s oeuvre. For all their subversion and rock and roll iconoclasm, Devo were just as indebted to Liverpool’s finest as everyone else. It was The Beatles’ closing song that would yield Mothersbaugh and Lennon’s eventual path crossing. “He comes over and sticks his head right in front of my face, and he stinks like beer, and he goes ‘Yeah yeah yeah yeah!’