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{{cquote|After we'd done the session on that particular song-- it ended at about four or five in the morning-- 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}}
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{{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}}
  
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{{cquote|That's me again-- 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-- the god of marijuana, right? So Ja gave me that one.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
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{{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|My favorite piece of me is what I did on 'Rain.' I think I just played amazing. I was into the snare and hi-hat. I think it was the first time I used the trick of starting a break by hitting the hi-hat first instead of going directly to a drum off the hi-hat. I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made. 'Rain' blows me away. It's out in left field. I know me and I know my playing... and then there's 'Rain.'.|quotewidth=500px|Ringo Starr|1984}}
 
{{cquote|My favorite piece of me is what I did on 'Rain.' I think I just played amazing. I was into the snare and hi-hat. I think it was the first time I used the trick of starting a break by hitting the hi-hat first instead of going directly to a drum off the hi-hat. I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made. 'Rain' blows me away. It's out in left field. I know me and I know my playing... and then there's 'Rain.'.|quotewidth=500px|Ringo Starr|1984}}
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{{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}}
  
 
{{cquote|It was nice. I really enjoyed that one.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
 
{{cquote|It was nice. I really enjoyed that one.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
  
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[[Rain - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]
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''''Rain' in MONO'''
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Latest revision as of 12:59, 7 May 2025

“Rain”
“Rain” cover
Single by The Beatles
A-side "Paperback Writer"
Released 30 May 1966 (US)
10 June 1966 (UK)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road Studios: 14 April 1966
Genre Rock
Length 2:59
Label Parlophone R5452 (UK)
Capitol 5651 (US)
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer George Martin
The Beatles singles chronology
"We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper"
(UK-1965)

"Nowhere Man"
(US-1965)		 "Rain"
(1966)		 "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine"
(1966)
“ After we'd done the session on that particular song — it ended at about four or five in the morning — 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. „

—John Lennon, 1966
“ That's me again — 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 — the god of marijuana, right? So Ja gave me that one. „

—John Lennon, 1980
“ My favorite piece of me is what I did on 'Rain.' I think I just played amazing. I was into the snare and hi-hat. I think it was the first time I used the trick of starting a break by hitting the hi-hat first instead of going directly to a drum off the hi-hat. I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made. 'Rain' blows me away. It's out in left field. I know me and I know my playing... and then there's 'Rain.'. „

—Ringo Starr, 1984


“ '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. „

—Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, Here, There and Everywhere with John Massey, 2006
“ It was nice. I really enjoyed that one. „

—Paul McCartney, 1994

 

'Rain' in MONO

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