Revolution 9 (Beatles)
Revolution 9 is an obscure sound collage made by John Lennon and Yoko Oh No! The track was placed on the second part of the The Beatles' Off-White Album. It came from an extended recording of the hard-rocking cover of Roger Waters' "Revolution".
Recording[edit]
John Lennon was having a severe case of writer's block so he went into Abbey Road Studios, the recording studios where the The Beatles recorded all of their life. Yoko Ono went up to him and said "Yo honey, let's make a sound collage." Since Lennon always agrees with Yoko on EVERYTHING, he said yes.
What the Heck Is In This Collage?[edit]
John Lennon's favorite number is nine, fun fact, leading to his post-Beatles song "#9 Dream". So he starts the track with a repeated monotone "I'm just gonna repeat the words 'number nine' over and over and over again to drive people nuts."
There's a bunch of operas and talking and backwards noises and weird stuff.
Backmasking-the fun part[edit]
The Paul Is Dead hoax was popular in the 60s due to backmasking. Apparently if you played "number nine, number nine" backwards, it would sound like "HIS NAME IS JOOOOHN CENAAAA!" and play the John Cena music. If you keep playing it backwards you will hear hints of rick-rolling and the "Yee" meme music played.