![]() ![]() ‘She Said She Said’ is based on John Lennon’s experience of taking acid with David Crosby and Roger McGuinn from The Byrds the previous year. And talking of Tibet, the lyrics on ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ were based on drugs pioneer Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner’s The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead which was itself based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.ġ8. Instead of flying him out to Tibet Engineer Geoff Emerick recorded his voice through a rotating Leslie speaker and using an automatic double tracking technique – the first time this was ever done.ġ7. Talking of religion, John Lennon said he wanted to sound like the Dalai Lama chanting from a hilltop on ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. In 2010 it was named the Best Pop Album by L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican City.ġ6. All four Beatles contributed to the lyrics of the song, which, as all good Beatles fans know, is pretty, pretty rare.ġ5. Producer George Martin took inspiration for the strings on ‘Eleanor Rigby’ from scores of the films of French new wave director Francois Truffaut.ġ4. Only one single was released from the album, and it was a double a-side of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘Yellow Submarine’, which came out on the same day as the album.ġ3. Go on then – here’s another ‘Yellow Submarine’ fact. Speaking of ‘Yellow Submarine’, The Kinks’ Ray Davies reviewed the album in Disc and Music Echo Magazine and branded the track “a load of rubbish, really.”ġ2. Recorded from April 6 to June 21, 1966, it was out in the UK just over six weeks later. Despite that though, they still managed to get the album out in super fast time. The band spent longer working on ‘Yellow Submarine’ than they did on the whole of their debut album, 1963’s ‘Please Please Me’.ġ0. ‘Love You To’ is 3.01 and ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ is 3.02.ĩ. Just two tracks on the album are longer than three minutes – and only by a few seconds. Oh and lest we forget, ‘Beatles on Safari’.Ĩ. Other possible titles included ‘Pendulums’, ‘Fat Man and Bobby’, ‘Magic Circle’, ‘Four Sides Of The Circle’ and ‘Four Sides Of The Eternal Triangle’. The original title for the album was ‘Abracadabra’, though a cheeky Ringo suggested they call it ‘After Geography’ to follow in the footsteps of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Aftermath’. To be fair, EMI were funding the sessions, but the band had to put up with working at their own Abbey Road studios in London – pictured above, despite the fact that the band themselves really wanted to record in the US.ħ. ![]() Their new contract with the label wasn’t signed until 1967 – meaning they pretty much gave ‘Revolver’ to the label for free. The Beatles contract with their label EMI expired during the making of ‘Revolver’, meaning they weren’t actually under contract while recording the album. ![]()
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