Difference between revisions of "Rain"

| Next single    = "[[Eleanor Rigby]]" / "[[Yellow Submarine]]" <br />(1966)

{{cquote|After we'd done the session on that particular song &#151; it ended at about four or five in the morning &#151; I went home with a tape to see what else you could do with it. And I was sort of very 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.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1966}}

{{cquote|That's me again &#151; with the first backwards tape on record anywhere... 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 it got 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... listen to this!' So I made them all play it backwards. The fade is me actually singing backwards with the guitars going backwards. (sings) 'Sharethsmnowthsmeanss!' That one was the gift of God... of Ja actually &#151; the god of marijuana, right? So Ja gave me that one.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|'Rain' also had an unusual sonic texture, deep and murky. This was accomplished by having the band play the backing track at a really fast tempo while I recorded them on a sped-up tape machine. When we slowed the tape back down to normal speed, the music played back at the desired tempo, but with a radically different tonal quality.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere'' with John Massey|2006}}

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