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Beatles songs, Revolution 9Revolution 9(John Lennon, Yoko Ono and George Harrison)Albums in which the song is present1968 - The Beatles (White Album)GEORGE 1969: 'Revolution 9 wasn't particularly like a Beatles number… it worked quite well in the context of all those different songs. I find it heavy to listen to myself – in fact, I don't, really.'JOHN 1971: 'I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution, but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was antirevolution.'JOHN 1980: 'The slow version of 'Revolution' on the album went on and on and on and I took the fade-out part, which is what they sometimes do with disco records now, and just layered all this stuff over it. It was the basic rhythm of the original 'Revolution' going on with some twenty (tape) loops we put on, things from the archives of EMI. We were cutting up classical music and making different-size loops, and then I got and engineer tape on which some test engineer was saying, 'Number nine.' All those different bits of sound and noise are all compiled. There were about ten (tape) machines with people holding pencils on the loops – some only inches long and some a yard long. I fed them all in and mixed them live. I did a few mixes until I got one I liked. Yoko was there for the whole thing and she made decisions about which loops to use. It was somewhat under her influence, I suppose. Once I heard her stuff – not just the screeching and the howling but her sort of word pieces and talking and breathing and all this strange stuff, I thought, My God, I got intrigued… so I wanted to do one. I spent more time on 'Revolution 9' than I did on half the songs I ever wrote. It was a montage.' (Bottle of Claret for you if I had realisedWell, do it next time.I forgot about it, George, I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?Yes.)Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, numberThen there's this Welsh Rarebit wearing some brown underpants About the shortage of grain in Hertfordshire Everyone of them knew that as time went by They'd get a little bit older and a litter slower but It's all the same thing, in this case manufactured by someone who's always Umpteen your father's giving it diddly-i-dee District was leaving, intended to pay forNumber 9, number 9Who's to know? Who was to know?Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9I sustained nothing worse than Also for example Whatever you're doing A business deal falls through I informed him on the third night When fortune givesNumber 9, number 9, number 9People ride, people ride Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride Ride! Ride!9, number 9, number 9, number 9I've missed all of that It makes me a few days late Compared with, like, wow! And weird stuff like that Taking our sides sometimes Floral bark Rouge doctors have brought this specimenI have nobody's short-cuts, aha 9, number 9With the situationThey are standing stillThe plan, the telegramOoh oohNumber 9, numberOohA man without terrors from beard to false As the headmaster reported to me My son he really can try as they do to find function Tell what he was saying, and his voice was low and his hive high And his eyes were lowAlright!Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9So the wife called me and we'd better go to see a surgeon Or whatever to price it yellow underclothes So, any road, we went to see the dentist instead Who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all So I said I'd marry, join the fucking navy and went to seaIn my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair I'm not in the mood for whirlingUm da AaahHow? Dogs for dogging, hands for clapping Birds for birding and fish for fishing Them for themming and when for whimmingOnly to find the night-watchman Unaware of his presence in the buildingOnion soupNumber 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9Industrial output Financial imbalanceThrusting it between his shoulder bladesThe Watusi The twistEldoradoTake this brother, may it serve you wellMaybe it's nothing Aaah Maybe it's nothing What? What? OhMaybe even then Impervious in London Could be difficult thing It's quick like rush for peace is Because it's so much It was like being nakedIf you became naked |
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