Blurtmusic Song-a-Day Challenge. Day 2 - Revolution 9

Day 2 Blurt music challenge is to post a song with a number in it.

What happens when Paul McCarty leaves the country for a week?

The other Beatles are in the recording room with Yoko making number 9. It's an 8 minute sound collage extremely avant-garde for 1968.

Paul wanted it thrown out but John insisted it be included in the album (Emerick & Massey 2006, pp 243-244) .

Listen with your headphones for the stereo sound goes in and out.

Some say if you listen to it backwards then number nine comes out, "turn me on, dead man". Reeve, Andru J. Turn Me On, Dead Man... pp 11-13

I must admit the vocals from Yoko at the end do freak me out.

This track contains everything from classical music clips to football chants.

Lenon wanted to create a finale to Revolution:

Lenon later said:

"Revolution 9 was an unconscious picture of what I actually think will happen when it happens; just like a drawing of a revolution." (3)

Reference:

1. Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles. New York: Gotham. ISBN 978-1-59240-179-6.

2. Reeve, Andru J. Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Beatles And The "Paul-Is-Dead" Hoax. AuthorHouse. pp. 11–13.

3. The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-2684-6.