He took one look and announced that he would write a song about a book. The author badly needs a job and has written a paperback book based on a book by a "man named Lear".
They both described the band's arrival in SydneyAustralia, marked by rain and poor weather. Set in the key of G major the final mix pitches it about a quarter of a semitone below this, while the backing track was taped in G sharpit begins with what Alan W.
Pollack calls, "a ra-ta-tat half-measure's fanfare of solo snare drums ", followed by a guitar intro of the first chord.
The verses are nine measures long, and the song is in 4 4 time. The refrain contains only I and IV chords, and is twelve measures long the repetition of a six-measure pattern. The first two measures are the G chord.
The third and fourth measures are the C chord. The third measure has the C chord in the so-called 6 4 second inversion. The fifth and sixth measures return to the G chord. Pollack says the refrain seems slower than the verse, though it is at the same tempo, an illusion achieved by "the change of beat for the first four measures from its erstwhile bounce to something more plodding and regular".
After four verses and two refrains, a short solo for guitar and drums is played, with complete silence for one beat. Following this, the music returns accompanied by what Pollack terms "historically significant" reverse lyrics.
Geoff Emerickwho was the engineer for both sessions, described one technique he used to alter the sonic texture of the track by recording the backing track "faster than normal".
When played back, slightly slower than the usual speed, "the music had a radically different tonal quality. The backwards vocals are Lennon singing the lyrics of the song: After we'd done the session on that particular song — it ended at about four or five in the morning — I went home with a tape to see what else you could do with it.
And I was sort of very stoned and tired, you know, not knowing what I was doing, and I just happened to put it on my own tape recorder and it came out backwards.
And I liked it better. So that's how it happened. I was always playing around with tapes and I thought it might be fun to do something extra with John's voice. So I lifted a bit of his main vocal off the four-track, put it on another spool, turned it around and then slid it back and forth until it fitted.
John was out at the time but when he came back he was amazed. I got home from the studio and I was stoned out of my mind on marijuana and, as I usually do, I listened to what I'd recorded that day.
Somehow I got it on backwards and I sat there, transfixed, with the earphones on, with a big hash joint. I ran in the next day and said, 'I know what to do with it, I know The fade is me actually singing backwards with the guitars going backwards. So Jah gave me that one.
The new device allowed the record to be cut at a louder volume, louder than any other single up to that time. It also appeared on the Past Masters CD. For example, the backwards film effects shown here are s creations.
Such effects were actually first deployed in the "Strawberry Fields Forever" promotional film of January Todd Rundgren has also covered the song, [11] as has the late Dan Fogelbergwho reprised it as part of his own cover of " Rhythm of the Rain ".
The Grateful Dead played it twenty times throughout the early s. The Beatles tribute act Rain derives its name from the song."Rain" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles first released in May as the B-side of the "Paperback Writer" single.
Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the album Revolver although neither appears on that album.. Written by John Lennon although credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is noted for its slowed-down rhythm track and backwards vocals, both of which .
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Much like Revolver's I'm Only Sleeping, Rain found the band exploring LSD-influenced notions of detachment from the real world. The studio practices of the Beatles evolved during the s and, in some cases, influenced the way popular music was recorded.
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