Paul McCartney said you can hear a vulgar message when you play one of the songs from The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band backwards. However, he indicated that this was not the intention of The Beatles. This is what happened when Paul played one of The Beatles’ most famous songs backwards – and why he decided to do it in the first place.
Paul McCartney on alleged hidden meanings in The Beatles ” Abbey Road ‘and’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ‘
During a 1974 interview with Rolling Stone, Paul discussed how fans found many hidden meanings in The Beatles’ work. He mentioned, for example, that some people believe the front page of Abbey road contains clues revealing that he is dead. He said that it is easy to see hidden meanings in things if you search for hidden meanings.
Then he discussed backmasking. Backmasking is the phenomenon in which artists will post backwards messages in their songs. Although there are examples of intentional back-masking, fans hear other messages in songs being played backwards, which the artist did not intentionally place there. Paul, for example, acknowledged that one of the songs from Sgt. Pepper it sounded like it contained a vulgar lyric when played backwards, although he was only aware of it after the album’s completion.
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What Paul McCartney heard when he read The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper ‘in reverse
“Then the little-if-you-play-it-back-things,” he said. ‘Like I said, it’s nine times out of ten is actually nothing. Take the end of Sgt. Pepper, that backward thing, ‘We’ll fuck you like Supermen.’ For the context, the last song on Sgt. Pepper is a day in the life. ‘
“Some fans came giggling at me,” Paul recalls. “They said, ‘Is that true, in the end? Is this true? It says, “We’ll love you Supermen.” “I said, ‘No, you’re kidding. I have not heard it yet, but I will play it. “It was just some conversation that was recorded and turned back. ”
Paul decided to play the song backwards. “But I went in after seeing them and playing them carefully, turning my thumb against the car backwards, turning off the car and doing backwards,” he revealed. And there it was, sure as anything, simple as anything. “We would love to see you Supermen.” I thought, Jesus, what can you do? ‘
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This was not the only time Paul discussed this feature of ‘a day in the life’. He mentions it later in the 1998 book Paul McCartney: Many years from now. There, he revealed that he regularly allowed fans to go to his house for tea, where they would treat him like a guru.
During one of these meetings, he learned that he could hear a vulgar sentence when he played ‘A Day in the Life’ in reverse. In Paul McCartney: Many years from now, Paul said you can probably hear messages in anything you play backwards. The reverse message of ‘a day in the life’ was unintentional, but it’s still fascinating that it’s there.
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