Is John really saying "Turn me on, dead man"? Because I think I'm the only person who is skeptical about this.
2006-09-12 04:29:09 · 7 answers · asked by squirrellondon 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
If played backwards the spoken "number nine" phrase that pings about from right to left does , at a stretch, sound like the phrase "turn me on dead man" and the argument (one of many Beatles conspiracy theories of old)goes that if you said the same phrase yourself and reversed it, it wouldn't sound the same or even similar, indicating that some work had gone into achieving this.
I only heard this AFTER being told what was allegedly being said prior to listening to this on a radio prog about this subject so have no idea if anyone listening to it "cold" would hear the same.
2006-09-12 04:36:02 · answer #1 · answered by emread2002 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
John Lennon assembled Revolution #9" out of lots of bits of tape that were lying around his home and at EMI Abbey Road studios - EMI had just installed their first 64-track recording console, and John wanted to push the new technology as far as he could (in the way that he'd stretched the earlier 16-track console's abilities with "Tomorrow Never Knows" - The loop of the voice repeating "Number 9, Number 9" was taken from a recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony - all the Paul is dead" conspiracy theory was seen by Lennon as incredibly funny, so much so that he included the line "Here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul" in "Glass Onion" - in England, the controversy had started shortly after the release of SGT. PEPPER'S.
2006-09-12 05:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by World Famous Neffer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it. I've played it backwards several times. It's actually one of their engineers (there is some controversy on who is talking, every book will tell you a different person's name). You can also hear a car crash and flames and some one screaming "Get me out of here!". There is a wonderful book about the "Paul is dead" hoax called The Walrus Was Paul, some of the theories are funny, some of them make a lot of sense, and some of them are a bit of a stretch. I think the Beatles did hide a bunch of stuff in their music, a lot of songs point to it, I think it was their in-joke, they had a great sense of humor.
But check out that book, it documents all the so called death clues, its a fun read, and you'll never listen to their songs the same way again.
Here's a link that gives you a quick into to the clues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Dead
2006-09-12 04:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
With all due know to ianasamad it relatively is no longer a classical track difficulty. The Beatles, have been in any respect cases, a pop band and notwithstanding experimental stuff they did, it substitute into no longer in any way related to classical track.
2016-09-30 21:11:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the late 60's, the Beatles where experimenting with drugs. This is just another experimental song that created a buzz.
2006-09-12 04:31:56 · answer #5 · answered by globotang 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lol, I love backmasking. No, he's not really. No more than the lead singer from Queen says, "I love to smoke mar-uh-joo-ahn-i-ka" on Another One Bites the Dust.
2006-09-12 04:32:26 · answer #6 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you play the Blackbird song backwards, on the same record, you get the blackbird whistling 'burn the badgers' NOW THATS SINISTER COS I LOVE BADGERS INNIT
2006-09-12 04:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by : 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋